Posted on 01/12/2015 1:05:45 PM PST by cotton1706
In recent weeks, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has started referring to the Islamic State terrorist organisation by a name they reportedly despise — Daesh.
Australia’s allies in the Middle East have suggested the Western world not use monikers such as ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant), ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria), or IS (Islamic State) as they legitimise the group’s aspirations.
“Daesh hates being referred to by this term, and what they don’t like has an instinctive appeal to me,” Abbott said.
“I absolutely refuse to refer to it by the title that it claims for itself [Islamic State], because I think this is a perversion of religion and a travesty of governance.”
US Secretary of State John Kerry has also started referring to the group by the name, as have US military leaders.
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.
Joseph Bahout, a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, told The Huffington Post that the word Daesh in Arabic “sounds like something monstrous” and is a way of “stigmatising” the group.
One theory suggests the group hates the name as it was reportedly first used by supporters of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the Herald Sun reported.
The terrorist organisation’s leaders have threatened to “cut out the tongues” of those who refer to them as Daesh, or DAIISH, according to international media reports.
The news follows Abbott’s first visit to Baghdad and Iraq to meet with Iraqi prime minister Haider al-Abadi to discuss military collaboration between the two nations.
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Does “No_To_Illegals” approve of the spelling of this word?
Exactly!
I like ISIS because it’s the name of a pagan goddess, and being called the name of a pagan goddess ought to be at least as annoying to a jihadi as Daesh would be, if not more.
Would this acronym sound more like “daysh” or “desh”? Any clue?
“I absolutely refuse to refer to it by the title that it claims for itself [Islamic State], because I think this is a perversion of religion and a travesty of governance.”
Read the article. Abbot is doing it because he doesn’t want to pervert islam.
I instinctively thought there is downside to this reference, you hit on it exactly, we should not be separating them from their religion which is their motivation, there is nothing in islam that is good, anything that has the appearance of good is just a facade a veneer covering the rot, decay and decadence beneath, the evil deceit that is the koran, mohamhead, and allah.
There should only be two types of ISIS members. The dead and the soon to be dead.
Iagree with your tagline.
Don’t worry - the Sunni-In-Chief will never allow that name to pass his lips...
Really? Dam FReepers!
Hope you get paid for that kind of original, foolproof humor!
Perhaps we can get them to apply for non-prophet status.
I've been pronouncing it like the word douche.
Example: "Look at the murderous daesh-bags".
Daesh it is.
Give Daesh a douche. Douche works for me.
as long as I dont get beheaded or firebombed I’ll get by...
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