IS, ISIS or ISIL???

Many had expressed their sadness and condolences to the recently bombing in France. As far as the public heard from the medias, it is an act of terrorism and might be under the group who called themselves ISIL. Wait, maybe it's IS. Or maybe it's ISIL. Damn all these names. Aren't they the same? Apparently not.  Below are some infos that I gathered from a few articles.

Islamic State (IS)

The militants announced in June that they were dropping the last two letters of their acronym and instead should be referred to as the Islamic State in recognition of their self-declared caliphate.

“It is neither Islamic, nor is it a State. The group has no standing with faithful Muslims, nor among the international community of nations," a letter to David Cameron signed by the Islamic Society of Britain and the Association of Muslim Lawyers, said.

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (Isis)

The original name for the group in Arabic was Al-Dawla Al-Islamiya fi al-Iraq wa al-Sham. The first three words translate to the Islamic State of Iraq while “al-Sham” refers to Syria and the wider surrounding area.

The group’s stated goal is to restore an Islamic state, or caliphate, in the entire region. The acronym poses an issue for the many companies and brands around the world already using it or named after the ancient Egyptian goddess of the same name.

An American woman called Isis Martinez also unsuccessfully petitioned the US media asking them to stop using her first name.

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil)

The undefined region around Syria is historically referred to as the Levant (an archaic French phrase for the “lands of the rising sun”), including modern-day Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine and Jordan.

Daesh

The French government changed its official name for the terror group, saying others “blur the lines between Islam, Muslims and Islamists”.

The Foreign Minister, Laurent Fabius asked journalists and media organisations to follow their example, adding: “This is a terrorist group and not a state.

“I do not recommend using the term Islamic State because it blurs the lines between Islam, Muslims and Islamists. The Arabs call it ‘Daesh’ and I will be calling them the ‘Daesh cutthroats’.”

Daesh, sometime spelled DAIISH or Da'esh, is short for Dawlat al-Islamiyah f'al-Iraq wa al-Sham.

Many Arabic-speaking media organisations refer to the group as such and there is an argument it is appropriately pejorative, deriving from a mixture of rough translations from the individual Arabic words, notably the Arabic verb دعس, within the name, which means to tread underfoot or crush.

There we go. All of their differences but what I can see is that they shared the same passion and they're all blood thirst. They fight in the names of Islam and the whole world especially the West believes that Islam teaches hatred, teaches all the bad things.

As for those that don't know, go learn about what Islam really is and then you can decide to keep blaming Islam or not for all these cruelties.

We even have a few commands in Wars as our beloved prophet Muhammad SAW said :

1.   Don't cut a tree
2.   Don't kill a child
3.   Don't kill old people
4.   Don't destroy a temple or a church
5.   Don't destroy a building
6.   Don't kill those who surrendered
7.   Don't kill who ran away
8.   Don't kill a woman
9.   Don't kill a sick person
10. Don't kill a monk or priest
11. Don't disfigure the dead
12. Don't kill an animal except for eating
13. Be good to the prisoners and feed them
14. Don't enforce Islam

So which part of IS or ISIL or ISIS is Islam ???