Timeline for Why does Obama say ISIL (instead of IS or ISIS or Islamic State)?
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| Jun 2, 2021 at 12:04 | history | edited | Philipp♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 18, 2015 at 8:21 | comment | added | David Grayson | If "Islamic State" is offensive, it seems like ISIL would be offensive because of what its first two letters stand for. | |
| Nov 24, 2015 at 18:58 | comment | added | user56reinstatemonica8 | This doesn't answer the question of why Obama and various other world leaders specifically favour ISIL (particularly given that the press and public seem to favour ISIS, IS or Daesh) | |
| Nov 24, 2015 at 9:23 | history | edited | Philipp♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 24, 2015 at 8:52 | comment | added | Philipp♦ | @KennyLJ Yes, you shouldn't interpret too much into it which name someone is using. | |
| Nov 24, 2015 at 8:51 | history | edited | Philipp♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 24, 2015 at 4:34 | comment | added | user2212 | So would you say that Obama continues to say "ISIL" not to make any special point, but just because that was what he had always called it? | |
| Nov 23, 2015 at 22:38 | comment | added | Bobson |
For what it's worth, I've seen a lot of Facebook posts starting to call them Daesh. Which really is the name that makes the most sense - I'm pretty sure the CIA is translated as "CIA" even in other languages. Most articles I read that use foreign acronyms say something like "XVZ, which stands for Department of Foobar in Xvian" So use their own acronym, even if the expansion doesn't make sense in other languages.
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| Nov 23, 2015 at 20:59 | comment | added | MasB | President Hollande of France and most media in France use Daesh as the name identifying the ISIS (or ISIL). Also used in Francophone media (France, Belgium, Québec) is EI (État Islamique or Islamic State). | |
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| Nov 23, 2015 at 16:26 | history | edited | Philipp♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 23, 2015 at 16:17 | history | answered | Philipp♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |