Terrorists works for me - all the groups are Islams although different sects they have same Quran which says to kill all non believers. This is kinda interesting and apparently they got flack as they updated it to include non English speaking countries esp USA - which is more Acronyms 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. ...In any case, neither ISIS nor ISIL are as accurate as DAIISH, the Arabic shorthand for the group that no one in the English-language press seems to use.
Posted on: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 11:57:14 +0000