Mind Your Tongue: Why, At Friendly Atheist, We’ll Use “Daesh” From Now On, Instead of ISIL, ISIS, or Islamic State

The violent Muslim fundies who’ve taken over swathsof Iraq and Syria go by different names/acronyms. That’s a bit confusing,and it produces editorial inconsistencies that play out across newspapers and websitesworldwide.

On this blog, we have nochanceto force conformity on the issue even if we wanted to, but we can at least be more consistent ourselves.

To that end, we’re dropping ISIS, IS, Islamic State, and ISIL–and will be using Daesh from here on out.

As Zeba Khan writes in the Boston Globe,...