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The Islamic state (IS/ISIS/ISIL) does not commit genocide in the Middle East, claim the two Swedish governing parties, the Social Democrats and the Green Party.On Wednesday, the parliament voted on whether the Islamic State's mass murders in Syria and Iraq should be recognized as a genocide or not. All parties, except the two government parties, the Social Democrats and the Green Party, argued in the debate before the decision was made, that ISIS' killings and persecution, in particular directed against the Christian and the Kurdish minorities, is genocide.But when it was time to vote, only the Sweden Democrats, the Liberals and the Christian Democrats, voted for recognition of the mass killings by IS as genocide, writes the newspaper Dagen . The three parties moreover reserved against the decision not to recognize the genocide.- Unfortunately, it looks like we will be sending a very bad signal from the Swedish Parliament, that we do not recognize this as a genocide. I think this is disgraceful! exclaimed SD's Julia Kronlid, in a debate before the vote.Since IS began its genocide in 2014, thousands of Christians and Yazidis have been killed, a large number of women have been captured as sex slaves, while hundreds of thousands are fleeing because of their religion or ethnicity.Comment below.