They want us to call them ISIS, or the Islamic State. But they are not Islamic, nor a state. Arabs call them Daesh, an acronym of their Arabic name, and they hate it because it sounds like āan imposing bigotā, āone who sows discordā or āone who crushes things underfootā from the verb ŲÆŲ¹Ų³ within the name.
The French government has changed its official name for the group; Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said āI will be calling them the āDaesh cutthroatsā.ā
Letās follow this example. Stop flattering them by calling them ISIS. Spite them by calling them Daesh, and help stop the division between Western and Middle East. Our battle is not with Arabs or Muslims, but with bigots who sow discord and crush others underfoot: Daesh.