When Isis was a sexy superhero (lemmy.world)

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

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 9 months 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.

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