ISIS has called themselves ISIS and ISIL and as of last year prefer the simpler IS.
Around the world, people have condemned calling IS by its name, saying that it “legitimises the group’s aspirations”. The Australian PM, Tony Abbott, has taken it a step further though, by calling IS a completely different name: Daesh.
Daesh comes from the acronym formed by the Arabic spelling of the terror group’s name — al-Dawla al-Islamiya fi Iraq wa al-Sham… the word Daesh in Arabic “sounds like something monstrous” and is a way of “stigmatizing” the group.
Obviously IS Daesh doesn’t like this very much, and they have threatened “cut out the tongues of those who refer to them as Daesh”
Well there’s a word I’m adding to my laptop’s dictionary.
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