Evan Kohlmann, a national security analyst, said: ‘It’s a derogatory term and not something people should use even if you dislike them.’
I'm all for insulting ISIS at every turn! Call the bastards what they are!
Arabic translator Alice Guthrie said: ‘They hear it, quite rightly, as a challenge to their legitimacy: a dismissal of their aspirations to define Islamic practice, to be ‘a state for all Muslims’ and — crucially — as a refusal to acknowledge and address them as such.’
Well, isn't their "legitimacy" being challenged? Are we at war with the bastards or what?
General Patton called the Nazi's what they were and he differentiated them from the German people by referring to them as "the Huns." It was a very specific term used to call out the Nazi's, SS and the German army and differentiate them from the German people. It was effective.
I say we adopt Daesh in referencing ISIS. General Patton surely would've.