FAO Schteve in Holland, re our post below (afraid this is not a Nice Things thread)
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Wrong way round - Daesh are IS (or ISIL), not Al Qaeda. It's an acronym of ISIL, but in Arabic. (And is quite widely used in Arabic because it's close linguistically to a couple of Arabic insults. Hence why ISIL / Daesh don't like it and punish people they catch using it.
Not Al Qaeda.
Posted By: Tricky Hawes on May 24th 2017 at 11:46:16
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- FAO Schteve in Holland, re our post below (afraid this is not a Nice Things thread) (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, May 24, 11:46:16
- You are correct. I was being a mong cos I knew that well. Rest is correct though (n/m) (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, May 24, 11:50:28
- Read this. Very good read, well written and scholarly... (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, May 24, 11:51:57
- (this is an old Guardian piece about the whole naming thing of them:) (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, May 24, 11:48:01
- You are correct. I was being a mong cos I knew that well. Rest is correct though (n/m) (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, May 24, 11:50:28
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