Unfortunately for those brands that settled on Isis -- an ancient Egyptian goddess -- the name now comes with a distasteful second meaning after the emergence of theterrorist group ISIS, which stands for Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. That's driving some brands to drop the name all togethe...
who was leading the delegation after U.S. Secretary of StateJohn Kerry broke his legin a cycling accident in eastern France over the weekend. ISIS, Blinken said, "stands for nothing and depends on people who will fall for anything." ...
“The aim of this attack was to rescue all Daesh members inside the prison, and unfortunately that included five or six senior Daesh people,” Omar said, using an Arabic acronym for the Islamic State group, which is also known as ISIS. Among the prisoners who escaped was ...
Thus, the creation and use of a title that stands out as a nonsense neologism for an organisation like this one is inherently funny, disrespectful, and ultimately threatening of the organisation’s status. Khaled al-Haj Salih, the Syrian activist who coined the term back in...