Is ISIS “Islamic”? Are we at war with ISIS? Should we call it “ISIL”?

    Semantic disputes have flared up over these three questions during the past week or so.   Let me comment briefly on each of them, in turn:   1.   President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron have both forthrightly denied that ISIS (or ISIL), the self-proclaimed “Islamic State,” is genuinely Islamic, [Read More...]