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France Insists On New Name For Mideast Extremists
2014-09-11
[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

#12  What OP said!
Posted by: Barbara   2014-09-11 20:21  

#11  Frankly, I don't care what they call themselves, or what Europe calls them, as long as whatever they're called is preceeded by "the former", and followed by "now deceased."
Posted by: Old Patriot   2014-09-11 19:51  

#10  ooops....^ was moi.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2014-09-11 18:12  

#9  Well, Minister Laurent Fabius what did Charles Martel call them at Tours?
Posted by: Snavish Munster3181   2014-09-11 18:11  

#8  falso in uno, falsus in omnibus
Posted by: regular joe   2014-09-11 11:22  

#7  Oh, and neither Muhammad.

@Grom(g)oru France's foreign minister is a JINO (Jew in Name only)
Posted by: JFM   2014-09-11 11:01  

#6  Le Canard Morte?
Posted by: Bill Clinton   2014-09-11 10:58  

#5  But without them g(r)om, there might be no Israel. Wait.... wat did I just say ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-09-11 04:32  

#4  they do not represent Islam

G*d, I'm tired of Europeans.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2014-09-11 04:22  

#3  Evil, goat buggering bastards (EGBB) ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-09-11 01:51  

#2  How about deaders?
Posted by: gorb   2014-09-11 00:54  

#1  Give soldiers about two days and there will be another name. Of course you will be too shocked to use it...
Posted by: Glomort Gloth5851   2014-09-11 00:19  

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