It's the Bombay vs Mumbai thing. Puckistan vs Packistan.
I don’t disagree with that, but when the group is addressed as ISIS at a 10 to 1 rate of ISIL, he needs to get up to speed on the proper terminology.
The West is referring to it as ISIS.
I posted the Google search engine results to you.
Somebody says it was more than that, a coded reference to a Middle East without Israel (Bam-Jar’s dream)