Posted on 01/07/2015 10:40:59 AM PST by COUNTrecount
“Daesh claims to be fighting for Islam but its actions are an insult to Islam,” Secretary of State John F. Kerry said recently, using the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State.
It was a strange rhetorical choice. American officials have been referring to the Islamic State as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL, since the group came out in April 2013.
But over the past month, Kerry and other Western officials have taken to using the Arabic acronym Daesh. Why? It’s a reaction to reports that Islamic State fanboys fume when people use the Arabic acronym for the group instead of its fuller name. It’s also an effort by Westerners to distinguish between Islam and the Islamic State. As French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius explained, “I do not recommend using the term Islamic State because it blurs the lines between Islam, Muslims and Islamists.”
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon made a similar argument using another version of the Islamic State’s acronym. “As Muslim leaders around the world have said, groups like ISIL – or Daesh — have nothing to do with Islam, and they certainly do not represent a state,” he said. “They should more fittingly be called the ‘Un-Islamic Non-State.’”
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Taqiyya from a dhimmi.
The botox overuse has damaged parts of Kerry’s arcuate fascilicus, the part of the brain responsible for speech.
If you call them ISIS is that sort of like naming a boy Sue?!
Sheesh. It would be like saying in WW2 we were only at war with Hitler because use of the word “Germany” would not have been fair to the peaceful Germans.
Current American “leadership” is beyond “effed” up. I cannot imagine being in the military or having friends in the military and having to be deployed by these fools.
A lot of comparisons have been made recently between aggressions and political events that lead to WWII and those of today. I say, when/if the time comes soon when these people want to plunge our youngsters into war, we refuse. Our enemy is here!
Not an “insult to Islam,” John: ISIS’ actions are a tribute to Islam.
They operate exactly the way the prophet intended them to.
You’re just really slow to catch on, Johnny boy...
Obama IS A Muslim and the lions share of his advisers in the White Hut are also Muslims. What do you expect?
So who cares? Islamic State fanboys can go pound sand........these people annoy me.
Yes I think most of us would agree on that.
What a major league puss.
Probably on orders from Obamugabe.
If Dorkbama is the baseline of intelligence from which all higher forms of intelligence is judged.
Kerrydork’s IQ line is just short of one angstrom above that baseline.
But he’s far, far uglier.
OK, only a bit uglier.
Okay John, but I will still refer to you as a “Traitor” and a “White flag waving, Cheese eating Surender Monkey”. Oh, and a tax cheat.....where is your boat?
Didn’t he serve in Vietnam?
Kerry was damaged a long time ago. Probably even before prep school. Look what a db he was boating around in Cambodia at Christmas in 1968.
That's a bit like saying, "Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, fried eggs and spam doesn't have very much spam in it"...
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