Hey, sorry, not American. Why does President Obama refer to ISIS as ISIL?
>>73647886
Because he's muslim
>>73647886
Tweet him see what he say
>>73647960
>this
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Because we don't know what the Levant is, but have a slightly better chance of identifying Syria as a mudslime country.
>>73647886
>ISIL
I think there was a time when they have renamed themselves to ISIL, so it was kinda the correct way to refer to them.
However, as far as I know they call themselves "Islamic State" since a year or two.
So if Obama would want to be really precise he'd have to call them IS or "Islamic State" ... but of course he won't do that because as a liberal American agnostic he knows more about Islam than an Iraqi "Caliph"....
>>73647960
Pretty much
>>73647886
He wants to make sure everyone remembers that what he did in Libya enabled ISIS to expand
The arabic name of "ISIS" is ad-dawlah al-islamiyyah fil-iraq wash-sham. The Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham. ash-Sham refers to the historic region of Syria, but not to the modern state of Syria; the two are distinct and have different boundaries, hence the Obama administration's preference to translate ash-Sham to "the Levant" rather than "Syria".
>>73647886
What happened to Al Quaeda?
>>73648656
This answer is actually really impressive.
Islamic State of Libya = ISIL
Islamic State of Syria = ISIS
>>73648873
Wewlad. I hope that b8
>>73647886
why are all their ankles bleeding?
>>73649013
It would appear that they got cut or broken. Maybe it's supposed to be some shitty commentary on
>le women are so oppressed because we "have to" wear heals
or something equally retarded.
>>73648873
Wrong.
L = Levant
Levant is the name of the larger middle eastern region.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levant
>>73649013
Because they tried to guard Iverson
>>73648813
>>73648656
syria's government is an ally of the UN right?
for their sake we dont refer to the league of evil villains with their country's name
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/767/932/805/
Probably because of things like this.
Also, OP, the answer is because Obama doesn't want Syria to be associated with ISIS because he's the one who helped the "moderate rebels" who became ISIS and he doesn't want to be responsible for that
>>73649313
>>73647886
Isis iraq and syria, isil iraq and the levant. The levant includes many countries in that area
