Posted by Tina
The terrorist group ISIS has expanded operations to Sirte, Libya, a coastal city that will give them a better advantage in their oil for terror funding program. Bombing campaigns by Putin and Hollande have helped push them more quickly in that direction.
Business Insider has details:
As ISIS has accomplished in Syria and Iraq, the group is successfully exploiting “deep divisions” in Libya, according to The Journal. ISIS has encouraged sectarian hatred in Syria and Iraq to further divide the population and convince Sunni Muslims that they need ISIS to protect them from Shiites.
Also as it did when it started seizing territory in Iraq and Syria, ISIS might also have its sights set on expansion in Libya. Local and Western officials told The Times that recent attacks suggest that Ajdabiya, a city further to the east, could be the next area ISIS looks to seize. It would give the group control of nearby oil fields, according to The Times.
Another sign of ISIS’ intentions in Libya comes with the people starting to suddenly appear in the North African country. Senior Iraqi leaders from ISIS are reportedly arriving from across the Mediterranean, which mimics how ISIS set up its base in Raqqa. The leaders of ISIS-controlled cities in Syria are predominantly Iraqi.
Sirte is also being governed like other ISIS-controlled cities in the Middle East. The group has reportedly set up propaganda “media points” in the city and started imposing its strict laws, like requiring women to wear Islamic veils in public and permitting public executions.
Oh goody, public executions! (Too much hyperbole, Libby?)
Meanwhile, the world’s leaders wine, dine, and yammer on in Paris about a much more serious threat.
Why do you still say ISIS? and why are you so preoccupied with them while people are dying from domestic terrorism?
Many have decided not to call them the Islamic State recognizing them as a “State” D’nesh is the compromise.
Why empower them? So consider changing the name.
If names don’t matter, what should I call you?
What do you call them? How do you distinguish between them and other groups?
Are you of the mind that we communicate best when we make it up as we go along?
ISIS is the name people most understand to mean the terrorist organization that’s now become the biggest terror threat in the world. I refuse to call them ISIL, which would have even more meaning for them…that’s the name our President prefers to use. Is he too granting them power and statehood? And isn’t he the greater “compromise?”
Unfortunately there’s a lot of evidence that they’ve established a rogue state, unrecognized officially but operating as such just the same.
Get your own blog and you can talk about domestic terrorism all you want.
ISIS is the name people most understand to mean the terrorist organization, and Tina is correct.
It’s not “ D’nesh “(which it seems is a Star Trek character), and as posted is incorrect, at least by this articles passage:
“French officials started the name change to Dash saying the killers are a terrorist group not a state.
Daesh—as it is accurately translated from Arabic -is short for Dawlat al-Islamihay f’al-Iraq wa al-Sham.
The term is said to offend the extremist group because it sounds similar to an Arabic word for crushing something underfoot.
The term quickly became Dash as it is easier for English-speaking people (at least some) to pronounce.
It seems ISIS or IS or??? is now Daesh (Who hate being referred to by this term) and what they don’t like has an instinctive ¬appeal to me,’’ said Australian prime minister Tony Abbott to the Herald Sun. “I absolutely refuse to refer to it by the title that it claims for itself [Islamic State], because I think this is a perversion of religion and a travesty of governance.”
Yep! We are going to defeat ISIS with nomenclature, sigh!
so folks, how’s it working so far?
Harold thanks for the clarification.
Dewey referred to D’Nesh, the first name of the man that made the films about BHO and was targeted for it like the conservative’s applying for 501c4.
I don’t mind offending them but it seems reasonable to keep using the term most used by communicators.Leave it to Obama to honor them by calling them ISIL, Is in the Levant