[spokeshave]

While everyone has heard of the Islamic State being referred to as either ISIS or ISIL, there is a new nickname called “DAESH” gaining prominence in recent months… and the Muslim terrorist group hates it.

In a related report by the Inquisitr, singer Pat Boone called President Obama a “traitor” for his handling of international affairs. It’s also been reported that Algeria may have warned France a day before the Paris terrorist attacks began.

The reason the Islamic State gave themselves this name is due to their commitment to establishing an Islamic caliphate over the entire world, starting with countries in the Middle East. Since they are a terrorist group, and not a state, the term DAESH has started to become popular since it’s believed using the other terminology indirectly legitimizes them.

DAESH derives from the Arabic name with which they refer to themselves, “al-Dawla al-Islamiya fi Iraq wa al-Sham.” This new “loose” acronym, pronounced “Die-esh,” is already starting to be used by the heads of governments, although much of the media has not yet caught on.

Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/1762507/daesh-the-meaning-behind-the-isis-or-isil-nickname-that-the-islamic-state-hates/#sXOCpepBktxlblr1.99

The reason DAESH hates being called DAESH is because it’s similar to the verb Daes, which means “one who crushes something underfoot. It also sounds similar to Dahes, or “one who sows discord.”

So calling them DAESH is an added insult and will further inflame the islamics and goad them in making more violent terroristic moves against the west...

expect severe outbreak of ululations and this guy all over

[The_Reader_David]

DAESH (or as I’ve always preferred to English the Arabic, DAISH) isn’t a new acronym. It’s what they’ve been called in the Middle East by Arabic-speakers from their inception.

I’ve always preferred it to either ISIS or ISIL on the argument that we don’t English the names of nationalist and Communist terrorist groups before abbreviating them (it’s the FARC, not the RAFC, the PKK, not the KWP, ETA, not BHF), so why the h*ll do we do that with Muslim terrorist organizations? (You can find posts here on FR in which I advocated it’s use going back many months.)

By far the worst acronym for them is ISIS, which has the S interpretted as standing for “Syria” when it really stands for “Sham”, the Arabic word for the Levant. ISIS is preferred by those who want to minimize the threat by understating the group’s ambitions and confining it to Iraq and Syria.