This change was probably the most contested decision we ever had to do. It took us more than a year to actually decide what to do. You can trace back all the details starting from this Wall thread:
https://tatoeba.org/eng/wall/show_message/32995#message_32995
To summarize:
- We received many complaints telling us that the flag that we used to craft the icon is a political flag and is not at all a flag that represents the Kabyle people.
- However, the opposition to change the flag was also very strong, with the active Kabyle contributors telling us that people who try to remove this "Kabyle flag" have a hidden agenda to eradicate the Kabyle culture and language.
What helped us come to a decision was:
- Finding out that the flag is a very recent flag, adopted only in March 2015.
- Finding out that the Kabyle people, regardless of their political opinions, already acknowledge another flag as a symbol of identity: the Berber flag.
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