Daesh?

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

According to Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius of France:

"This is a terrorist group and not a state," ... "I do not recommend using the term Islamic State because it blurs the lines between Islam, Muslims and Islamists. The Arabs call it 'Daesh' and I will be calling them the 'Daesh cutthroats.' "

Any opinions?

[Comrade Grumpy]

1. You say Daesh, I say ISIS, let's call the whole thing off.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

2. We could just call them...

...THEM.

[FSogol]

9. Duzy!

You (and me, I guess) showed your age with that comment.

[rollin74]

3. the article below attempts to explain it ("daesh" seems to only be used by opponents of ISIS)

It seems more and more Western media are using the derogatory DAESH when they’re talking about the Islamic State in Iraq and as-Shām (commonly known as ISIS).

As nobody seems to have the faintest idea what DAESH stands for, here’s an attempt to explain.

The capitals in the word DAESH point out it is an acronym of some sort. And indeed if we single out the beginning letters of the Arabic name for ISIS : الدولة الاسلامية في العراق والشام

we get the Arabic: داعش

د = Dawlat (Nation)
ا = (al-) Islāmiyya
ع= (fī’l-) ‘Irāq
ش = (wa’s-) Shām (Greater Syria or the Levant)

read more: http://pietervanostaeyen.wordpress.com/2014/02/18/on-the-origin-of-the-name-daesh-the-islamic-state-in-iraq-and-as-sham/

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

6. Some folks have a problem with...

...ISIS since it isn't Iraq or Syria. Just looking for a name that's clear.

[951-Riverside]

4. Al Qaeda, ISIS, ISIL, Cortisone, Daesh...

Give me a break.

They are nothing more than death squads and mercenaries funded and trained by the military industrial complex to commit mass genocide against the indigenous people in the middle east and to keep the war machine going.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

7. So it would seem

[Fred Sanders]

5. Daesh is the correct name, why is the major media adopting the version that sounds the scariest?

Time the the military, Obama and mad, mad mass media do the same.

And McCain and Lindsay are irrelevant, only the major media clings to them as fellow war mangers.

Boo.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

8. Works for me

[Blue_In_AK]

10. Interesting you would say that

given my post earlier today asking the same question. It seems to be what the northern Iraqis are calling this group.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

11. I missed your earlier post

Seems the Daesh want a NAME.

[Blue_In_AK]

12. Here's my question, posted late last night.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025577821

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

13. Thanks n/t