I used to want to fck Isis, now I just say fck Isis

    • paultimate14@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      My understanding (I don’t know much about Arabic) is that Daesh is kind of a westernization of Da’ish, which is itself the latinized version of the Arabic acronym.

      Apparently Daesh is what their arabic-speakkng opposition calls them becauss of puns with other negative Arabic words.