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Dragonfli

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9. That's what Iraqi Americans I know always called them, so, not really new, just Arabic.

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Mon Sep 22, 2014, 12:58 AM

Sep 2014

As such, I find it far more appropriate than the English nicknames we have given them, also we can't agree on a single nick/brand name to use because their name is an Arabic one (rather than a translation that we THEN attempt to decide an acronym for to be used in our war marketing strategies).

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The Islamic State Is Upset With The French Government's New Name For Them [View all] applegrove Sep 2014 OP

Gee, that's just too bad for them. NaturalHigh Sep 2014 #1

I was rooting for "Lolly Boys" DJ13 Sep 2014 #2

How to pronounce it, though--"dash", or "day-esh"? TwilightGardener Sep 2014 #3

It sounds close to (but not exactly like) "dosh" when I hear it spoken by those that speak arabic Dragonfli Sep 2014 #10

French people pronounce it "Da- è-ch " mylye2222 Sep 2014 #13

"Daeshbags" it is. nt greyl Sep 2014 #4

Good. I had read that Muslims wanted them to be called "heretics" because they did not Cha Sep 2014 #5

Their leader, alBagdadi, was an al qaeda in applegrove Sep 2014 #7

"Thanks Bush. Thanks for creating the environment for such psychopaths to thrive." Exactly Cha Sep 2014 #8

US prison after the war, before the war he was a soccer player and Islamic studies student jakeXT Sep 2014 #11

that's some nice bait for dissention edgineered Sep 2014 #6

That's what Iraqi Americans I know always called them, so, not really new, just Arabic. Dragonfli Sep 2014 #9

I think it's the other way round. CJCRANE Sep 2014 #12