Still Waters Posted November 18, 2015 #1 Share Posted November 18, 2015 Facebook is joining the fight against terrorism - one woman named Isis at a time. Isis Anchalee, an engineer based in San Francisco, complained on Twitter on Tuesday afternoon that her Facebook account had been disabled, and suggested it was because of her name. "Why would you disable my personal account? MY REAL NAME IS ISIS ANCHALEE /facepalm," she tweeted at Facebook. http://www.theguardi...ccount-disabled 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keel M. Posted November 18, 2015 #2 Share Posted November 18, 2015 I think I saw on Monday an article revealing what ISIS is called in the Middle East. Something like Daesh. I think the Western World needs to start using that name so that women who are named Isis aren't unfairly targeted like this. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FLOMBIE Posted November 18, 2015 #3 Share Posted November 18, 2015 I call them DAESH for a while now. Mostly because I do not want to give them any satisfaction in calling them "Islamic". 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taun Posted November 18, 2015 #4 Share Posted November 18, 2015 She's lucky it was just facebook... not something actually important... 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FLOMBIE Posted November 18, 2015 #5 Share Posted November 18, 2015 She's lucky it was just facebook... not something actually important... Just imagine it would have been twitter! OMG! 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lioness_Heart Posted November 18, 2015 #6 Share Posted November 18, 2015 I know a girl named Isis. Her mom named her after the ancient Egyptian goddess Isis. Her name has nothing to do with the extremist group and her mom picked her name long before the group emerge. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grandpa Greenman Posted November 18, 2015 #7 Share Posted November 18, 2015 (edited) The DAESH have blasphemed the name of the Goddess for too long! How do you pronounce DAESH and what does it mean? I know I sound dumb, but I am an American, so I am limited by information provided by our media. Edited November 18, 2015 by GreenmansGod 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightly Posted November 18, 2015 #8 Share Posted November 18, 2015 petty. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keel M. Posted November 18, 2015 #9 Share Posted November 18, 2015 I know a girl named Isis. Her mom named her after the ancient Egyptian goddess Isis. Her name has nothing to do with the extremist group and her mom picked her name long before the group emerge. Any sensible person would recognize that right off, but most people in my country aren't sensible when it comes to this kind of stuff. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FLOMBIE Posted November 18, 2015 #10 Share Posted November 18, 2015 (edited) The DAESH have blasphemed the name of the Goddess for too long! How do you pronounce DAESH and what does it mean? I know I sound dumb, but I am an American, so I am limited by information provided by our media. Dah-esh What it means is a little complicated. I found this link quite helpful. Edited November 18, 2015 by FLOMBIE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keel M. Posted November 18, 2015 #11 Share Posted November 18, 2015 I actually heard it on the radio this morning. I think or yesterday evening as I drove home from work. I listen to NPR because I don't like the stupidity of these radio DJs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EEHC Posted November 19, 2015 #12 Share Posted November 19, 2015 (edited) The DAESH have blasphemed the name of the Goddess for too long! There is also a pagan organization known as the Fellowship of Isis (FOI) who must find this very inconvenient. https://en.wikipedia...lowship_of_Isis I think people should refer to ''ISIL'' for Levant instead of Syria. Few politicians actually use that name though, except Obama. Edited November 19, 2015 by Sam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EEHC Posted November 19, 2015 #13 Share Posted November 19, 2015 (edited) *Snip* Edited November 19, 2015 by Sam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Wearer of Hats Posted November 19, 2015 #14 Share Posted November 19, 2015 I call them DAESH for a while now. Mostly because I do not want to give them any satisfaction in calling them "Islamic". I don't want to give them the satisfaction of calling them anything they want to be called therefore I call them "those tw ats". 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EEHC Posted November 19, 2015 #15 Share Posted November 19, 2015 (edited) I don't want to give them the satisfaction of calling them anything they want to be called therefore I call them "those tw ats". Daesh or Da'esh is a derogative name that apparently does give them satisfaction: Thanks to Arabic wordplay, it could also be an insult. “Depending on how it is conjugated in Arabic, it can mean anything from ‘to trample down and crush’ to ‘a bigot who imposes his view on others,'" Boston Globe writer Zeba Khan reported in October 2014. ISIS threatened “to cut the tongue of anyone who publicly used the acronym Daesh, instead of referring to the group by its full name,” the Associated Press wrote in September 2014. http://www.ibtimes.c...ference-2187131 Edited November 19, 2015 by Sam. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJ1983 Posted December 12, 2015 #16 Share Posted December 12, 2015 It's a rough time for kids named Isis right now, coke won't do custom bottls for them either. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilly Posted December 12, 2015 #17 Share Posted December 12, 2015 If I'd named my daughter Isis I'd up and legally change her name. Iris would be a good choice or perhaps Ina or Irene. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Summerin1905 Posted January 15, 2016 #18 Share Posted January 15, 2016 i really wish people could understand that not all terrorist are muslms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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