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France Insists On New Name For Mideast Extremists
[Ynet] La Belle France's foreign minister says people should stop referring to holy warriors in Iraq and Syria as the Islamic State, arguing that they do not represent Islam or a state.

La Belle France has urged international action against the holy warriors and is sending arms to Kurdish authorities to fight the myrmidons. The French president is going to Iraq on Friday and hosting an international conference Monday on how to stop the group and help Iraq.

Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius referred to the group Wednesday as Daesh, the acronym in Arabic for its full former name, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original...
Or we could do the transliteration as Arab speakers do -- Da3esh -- to indicate that it is a guttural A, like the Hebrew letter ayin. That would show 'em!

Posted by: trailing wife 2014-09-11
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