Submitted on Monday 16th November 2015
Published on Tuesday 17th November 2015
Current status: Closed
Closed: Tuesday 17th May 2016
Signatures: 19,443
To change the name the UK Government uses for IS, ISIS and ISIL to DAESH
Also to encourage others similarly. There can then be benefits by removing:
a) the name ‘Islamic’ from them as it can stop the inferential slandering of good Muslims
b) the word ‘State’ as it de-politicises them and their ‘branding’ to just a terrorist group
Why use the name they want used?
This request for a change of language follows the atrocities in Paris on the 13th November 2015. It calls on the British Government to help France and to change the world view of DAESH. For information on the different names for this group, there is a helpful article in The Independent Newspaper from 2014, when the French Government began to change to DAESH, at http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/isis-vs-islamic-state-vs-isil-vs-daesh-what-do-the-different-names-mean-9750629.html
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The Government responded to this petition on Tuesday 12th January 2016
The Prime Minister advised the House, on 2 December, that it is time to join our key ally, France, the Arab League, and other members of the international community in using, the terminology “Daesh”.
The Government is disgusted by the brutality and inhumanity of Daesh in the Middle East and the resulting humanitarian crisis and as the Prime Minister set out in the House of Commons; “We must stand with our Muslim friends, here and around the world, as they reclaim their religion from these terrorists. Far from an attack on Islam, we are engaged in a defence of Islam, and far from a risk of radicalising British Muslims by acting, failing to act would actually be to betray British Muslims and the wider religion of Islam in its very hour of need.”
The Prime Minister, having carefully considered strong representation made to him by many Members of Parliament across the House, advised the House on 2 December that “I feel that it is time to join our key ally, France, the Arab League, and other members of the international community in using, as frequently as possible, the terminology “Daesh” rather than ISIL. This evil death cult is neither a true representation of Islam nor a state.”
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