{"id":70,"date":"2016-01-14T21:37:23","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T02:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/globalgovernance\/?p=70"},"modified":"2016-02-02T18:46:47","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T23:46:47","slug":"isis-vs-daesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/globalgovernance\/2016\/01\/14\/isis-vs-daesh\/","title":{"rendered":"ISIS vs Daesh?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every time I hear someone talking about the Islamic State<\/em>, the first thing that pops up my mind is the terminology. It has become a common practice to refer to the militant group as they call themselves \u2013 The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria\/Levant<\/em> (ISIS or ISIL) and to simplify it we just use the short form: the Islamic State<\/em>. But I just cannot keep myself from thinking why we would actually do that.<\/p>\n

The international community does not recognize the existence of the Islamic State<\/em> even though they proclaimed a caliphate. Their goal is to have their own independent and universal Islamic state to rule and to expand. By referring to them as the Islamic State<\/em>, we do exactly what they want to achieve. If we do not recognize the group as a state, we should not use the word state in its name.<\/p>\n

There is another way to refer to them and that is the acronym Daesh<\/em> which is based on Arabic translation of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria<\/em> but it has a very negative connotation and the group actually detest this name.<\/p>\n

I realize it is not possible that the whole world would start calling the group Daesh<\/em> overnight, it is just not possible as the name Islamic State<\/em> is too embedded in people\u2019 s minds by now. But slowly step by step, we should try and use the acronym Daesh<\/em> more and more. To spread the new practice, it is especially politicians and influential people who should be using the name Daesh<\/em> in their speeches, also journalists should use the term and people should learn about it at school. If we do not want the Islamic State<\/em>, we should not promote it by giving them the feeling that the world acknowledges the existence of such a state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every time I hear someone talking about the Islamic State, the first thing that pops up my mind is the terminology. It has become a common practice to refer to the militant group as they call themselves \u2013 The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria\/Levant (ISIS or ISIL) and to …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31566],"tags":[43811],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-isis","tag-isisdaish","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/globalgovernance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/globalgovernance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/globalgovernance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/globalgovernance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/globalgovernance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/globalgovernance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/globalgovernance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/globalgovernance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/globalgovernance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}