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World leaders have taken to calling ISIS “Daesh,” a word the Islamic State hates.
Newrepublic.com ^ | 11/16/2015 | Newrepublic.com

Posted on 11/16/2015 8:40:26 PM PST by Dallas59

World leaders have taken to calling ISIS “Daesh,” a word the Islamic State hates.

Since the attacks in Paris, both John Kerry and François Hollande have used it. The Kurdish militants battling ISIS in Iraq already use the term regularly, though they risk loosing their tongues by uttering it.

Daesh is an acronym. It stands for the Arabic name of the Islamic State: al-Dawla al-Islamiya fi al-Iraq wa al-Sham. When Jen Percy, a New Republic contributor, went to northern Iraq this year, the Assyrian Christians waging a war against ISIS were calling ISIS troops “Daesh.” In her article for our September issue, she called it “a pejorative term for ISIS in Arabic.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: daesh; isis
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To: UCANSEE2

Daesh is Arabic for Muslim Douche Bag


I thought it was a term for our dear leader......Oh wait.


41 posted on 11/16/2015 9:36:15 PM PST by o-n-money (We should rename California to Newer Mexico.)
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To: o-n-money

No...the term for dear leader is traitor.


42 posted on 11/16/2015 9:44:04 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: hal ogen

That too.


43 posted on 11/16/2015 9:45:51 PM PST by o-n-money (We should rename California to Newer Mexico.)
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To: MarMema

I realize it was long ago but Kurds had no problems murdering thousands of their Christian neighbors in dozens of towns when told to do so by the Turkish Authorities. Read up on Armenian massacres of the 1890’s and around WWI. They have been since then and to this day horrible to Christians in the Karabakh region.


44 posted on 11/16/2015 10:02:04 PM PST by Sheapdog (Chew the meat, spit out the bones - FUBO - Come and get me)
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To: Sheapdog

I never understood why people just looooove the kurds.

The only group of people I would trust over there would be Israeli.


45 posted on 11/16/2015 10:17:33 PM PST by Califreak (Hope and Che'nge is killing U.S. Feel the Trump-mentum!(insert ireallysupportCruzdisclaimerhere/))
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican

Daesho pc, Daesher non pc.


46 posted on 11/16/2015 10:30:58 PM PST by urbanpovertylawcenter (the law and poverty collide in an urban setting and sparks fly)
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To: Dallas59

Daesh, a word that Obama needs to hear often and plenty.

None of that isil crap.


47 posted on 11/16/2015 10:50:49 PM PST by Daniel Ramsey (Trump to win! He wins, we win, the nation wins!)
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To: Dallas59

This is nonsense. For example, Japan does grant permanent residency to muslims.
I understand; you’re steamed at the muslim atrocity in Paris. So am I.
But posting wild untruths does not help FR or its reputation.


48 posted on 11/16/2015 11:04:46 PM PST by rjbemsha (How many more Paris's before the West wakes?)
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To: Dallas59

Bump!


49 posted on 11/16/2015 11:20:40 PM PST by 4Liberty (Prejudice and generalizations. That's how Collectivists roll......)
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To: dayglored

I think “Daesh” is a way of avoiding use of the term “Islamic” which is offensive to our Muslim economic partners in the New World Order from Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States etc. etc.

“Daesh” is a politically correct term and so I think we should avoid it like the plague.


50 posted on 11/16/2015 11:49:26 PM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS, REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: Dallas59

Who will destroy these bastards of humanity? The English, the Germans, the French, the Italians, the Russians, the United States of America? How about Roma Vaticana? Who will kill, every last one of these, Islamic pestilence? Who?


51 posted on 11/16/2015 11:57:38 PM PST by RedHeeler
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To: Dallas59

I did notice that Kerry called them daesh yesterday and I was curious as to why?


52 posted on 11/17/2015 12:44:54 AM PST by fso301
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To: fso301

Because Kerry’s a real bad azz dude. Just ask him.


53 posted on 11/17/2015 12:46:56 AM PST by RedHeeler
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To: Sheapdog

Thank you. I will look into that.


54 posted on 11/17/2015 1:17:25 AM PST by MarMema
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To: Calpublican

That’s what confuses me. Of late I’ve seen video of both using the term, so I’m highly suspicious of this sudden claim it’s a pejorative.


55 posted on 11/17/2015 3:15:27 AM PST by ctdonath2 (History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the week or the timid. - Ike)
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To: FourPeas

“Did the New Republic just learn this? Calling IS Daesh to insult them is very old news.”

Probably not, but now world leaders are making TOTAL IDIOTS of themselves by changing the name of ISIS every 2 weeks or so.

...so the New Republic has been told to defend them.


56 posted on 11/17/2015 4:08:49 AM PST by BobL ( (REPUBLICANS - Fight for the WHITE VOTE...and you will win (see my 'profile' page))
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To: Dallas59

Way too nuanced for me, I still call them Muslim Terrorists.


57 posted on 11/17/2015 4:35:49 AM PST by ThePatriotsFlag ( Anything FREELY-GIVEN by the government was TAKEN from someone else)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

When fighting against a demonic spirit its important to get the correct name to rebuke and cast out by the authority given to us by Christ.

That evil obama creature likes to call it ISIL to extend its authority over greater territory and especially including Israel,


58 posted on 11/17/2015 5:07:32 AM PST by captmar-vell
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To: UCANSEE2

Aka Daeshbag.


59 posted on 11/17/2015 5:16:09 AM PST by Velveeta
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To: Dallas59

Gosh.....that’ll only make them mad. Bambi and Lurch should call them “Most Holy Blessed of Allah”. Then they won’t be mean.


60 posted on 11/17/2015 5:41:03 AM PST by norwaypinesavage (The Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones)
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