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What's the difference between ISIS and ISIL?
Posted on 11/18/15 at 1:24 pm
Posted on 11/18/15 at 1:24 pm
The president seems to want to refer to the Muslim terrorists as ISIL instead of ISIS. Is it some sort of kinder, gentler reference to mass murderers?
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Posted on 11/18/15 at 1:25 pm to beejon
An L or an S
This post was edited on 11/18/15 at 1:26 pm
Posted on 11/18/15 at 1:25 pm to beejon
They go by several names, so we are allowed to bomb them once for each name.
This post was edited on 11/18/15 at 1:30 pm
Posted on 11/18/15 at 1:26 pm to beejon
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Is it some sort of kinder, gentler reference to mass murderers?
For the love of god
Posted on 11/18/15 at 1:26 pm to beejon
Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
Posted on 11/18/15 at 1:26 pm to beejon
Just his lisp.
Posted on 11/18/15 at 1:27 pm to beejon
Should call them Daesh
Posted on 11/18/15 at 1:34 pm to beejon
He doesn't want to offend the Syrian refugees
Posted on 11/18/15 at 1:55 pm to beejon
Obama has to include Israel as a bad guy. He hates them, so ISIL it is for him.
Posted on 11/18/15 at 1:58 pm to beejon
The AP's explanation:
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In Arabic, the group is known as Al-Dawla Al-Islamiya fi al-Iraq wa al-Sham, or the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham. The term “al-Sham” refers to a region stretching from southern Turkey through Syria to Egypt (also including Lebanon, Israel, the Palestinian territories and Jordan). The group’s stated goal is to restore an Islamic state, or caliphate, in this entire area.
The standard English term for this broad territory is “the Levant.” Therefore, AP’s translation of the group’s name is the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL.
Posted on 11/18/15 at 2:31 pm to beejon
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Is it some sort of kinder, gentler reference to mass murderers?
Sort of the opposite, actually. The term "Levant" is an archaic term for the area going back to the crusades. Using the word for the region that crusaders used is probably a bit more offensive than using the name of a country.
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