What does Daesh mean? ISIS 'threatens to cut out the tongues' of anyone using this word (Daily Mirror)
Daesh is an acronym for the Arabic phrase al-Dawla al-Islamiya al-Iraq al-Sham (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant).
Essentially, it's another word for ISIS - but apparently one that ISIS militants do not favour.
Why? Because it is similar to the Arabic words 'Daes', 'one who crushes something underfoot' and 'Dahes', translated as 'one who sows discord'.
I have no problem whatsoever using the term Daesh since it apparently pisses them off.
Then have a ball using it...
I, myself, rather use the word “terrorist”...
Actually another term for ISIL (islamic state in the Levant)
((Iraq))
ISIS is Syria