It will tick them off. I aim to please. How about you? http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/what-daesh-mean-isis-threatens-6841468 [FONT="]Daesh is an acronym for the Arabic phrase al-Dawla al-Islamiya al-Iraq al-Sham (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant).[/FONT] [FONT="]Essentially, it's another word for ISIS - but apparently one that ISIS militants do not favour.[/FONT] [FONT="]Why? Because it is similar to the Arabic words 'Daes', 'one who crushes something underfoot' and 'Dahes', translated as 'one who sows discord'.[/FONT] [FONT="]In January 2015, then Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced that he would begin referring to the Islamic State group by this name, saying: "Daesh hates being referred to by this term, and what they don't like has an instinctive appeal to me."[/FONT] [FONT="]It seems that other world leaders have now followed suit, with French president Francois Hollande and the USA's secretary of state John Kerry both using the term.[/FONT] [FONT="]According to NBC, ISIS has reportedly threatened to 'cut out the tongues' of anyone it hears using the term.[/FONT] [FONT="]Evan Kohlmann, a national security analyst, told NBC: "It's a derogatory term and not something people should use even if you dislike them."[/FONT]
