You have to keep transmogrifying the terminology in order to keep the low-information types from catching on.
It’s called “I read more than you do.”
Ya forget killing them ,just change the name , again
The group's Arabic name is transliterated as ad-Dawlah al-Islāmīyah fī al-‘Irāq wash-Shām leading to the Arabic acronym Da‘ish or DAESH (Arabic pronunciation: da:ʕeʃ). The name is also commonly translated as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria or Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham and abbreviated ISIS (/ˈaɪsɪs/). In June 2014 the group renamed itself the Islamic State (IS) but the new name has been widely criticized and condemned, with the UN, various governments, and mainstream Muslim groups refusing to use it.
So, we COULD just call it the Islamic State, but we have boldly decided to adopt the name which is considered more sensitive to Muslim sensibilities. Daesh it is, then.
This is the same coward who insisted that our troops were terrorizing Iraqi women and children in their homes in the middle of the night. This traitor is the only POS bigger than the POSOTUS. He should have faced the firing squad years ago.
“Islamic State” has the advantage of being what they call themselves and being extremely accurate.
It is politically harmful to one-worlder-libs who cannot stand that Islam (the anti-West) is so nasty. They want Islam as their ally against the West, but Islamic State is such a difficult ally to admit.
So, they won’t call Islamic State by its real name.
Kerry should demand that his ISIS guys start calling him Hanoi Boi.
Regardless of what you call them Imam Obama, they are still radical islamic terrorist.
Is that the Kerry that served in VEEEEEETNAM?
Yesterday, on FR’s Sunday Talk Show Thread, we discussed how to pronounce, DAESH.” FReeper twotone had the best suggestion: “DOUCHE.”
Just more “following from behind”.
Sounds like a punctuation assertion: “If you like your Daesh, you can keep your Daesh—period.”
I guess the White House is done calling them the “JV” squad, then?
“The radical Islamic terror group that swallowed massive territory in Syria and Iraq and is penetrating into Europe, the Sinai Peninsula and Gaza, already has had many names. […]”
That put the hairs up on the back of my neck.
This is just Obama trying to give legitimacy to ISIS by giving them a name like we give countries. In effect, Obama is recognizing ISIS as a country.
Please, someone helps us! What doofuses (doofi?) we have in the White Hut.
I prefer ISIS, for what I think would be the obvious reason that it probably annoys them no end to be referred to by the name of a pagan deity.
If they are “hijacking” Islam, then they are apostates and blasphemers. Which carries the death penalty under Sharia.
So, I’m OK with that.
I thought I read somewhere that the powers-that-be in ISIL hate the term Daesh. So maybe the administration is doing something right for a change? No doubt by accident, but right.