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To: upbeat5

If you really wanna screw with him use the term Daesh like the Frogs are doing: http://www.france24.com/en/20140917-france-switches-arabic-daesh-acronym-islamic-state/

The name Daesh, according to France24, is a “loose acronym” for “Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant” (al-Dawla al-Islamiya al-Iraq al-Sham). The name is commonly used by enemies of ISIS, and it also has many negative undertones, as Daesh sounds similar to the Arabic words Daes (”one who crushes something underfoot”) and Dahes (”one who sows discord”).
- - Samantha Rollins


7 posted on 09/17/2014 8:01:51 AM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: rockrr

Whatever happened to “The Umma”? Packed away with Bombay, Peking, and Burma?


26 posted on 09/17/2014 9:17:36 AM PDT by RaveOn ("No amount of logic can shatter a faith consciously based on a lie." Lamar Keene, "True Believers")
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