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To: logic101.net

Yeah, the continued commentary of ISIL to make a distinction to his supported ISIS. It is the same thing with a different name, Obola.

Just like Soetoro is Obama is an a..h.le.


18 posted on 09/11/2014 5:04:56 AM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: Mouton

This is actually an example of the stopped clock phenomenon: Obama is right to call the group ISIL, though ISIS, when what the letters stand for is correctly understood is also correct. The people who are wrong are those who assert that the second S stands for Syria.

The group’s Arabic name before it proclaimed the restoration of the Caliphate was Al-Dawla Al-Islamiya fi al-Iraq wa al-Sham, which Englishes The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (abbreviating to ISIL) — al-Sham being the Arabic word for the Levant. If one wants to be exotic, one Englishes it as The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham (abbreviating to ISIS), and if one wants to be deceptive and hide the group’s ambition to minimize the threat, one pretends the second S stands for Syria.


58 posted on 09/11/2014 9:24:55 AM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
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