What should we call Islamic State: DAISH or IS?

By Amin Saikal
Updated April 23 2018 - 8:21pm, first published January 18 2015 - 3:40pm

Prime Minister Tony Abbott and many other national and community leaders have contended that it is important to use the term DAISH when we identify the territorial and political entity that has been declared as "Islamic State", or Khilafat, on large swaths of war-torn Syria and Iraq territories since June 2014. The debate by which name the entity should be identified is somewhat semantic, for it is not the name but rather the entity itself that really matters. Nonetheless, some clarification may be helpful.

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