Aside from the fact that apparently the Mohammadans there don't care for "Daesh", it's far more complicated to pronounce. There's a perfectly serviceable name already: Islamic State. What's wrong with that? It's a weird appeasement of the Mohammedans at home.
The Koran does not permit Mohammedans to drink. Their natural instincts do not permit them to be moral. They say the Sultan has eight hundred wives. This almost amounts to bigamy.
-- Mark Twain
Rags, wretchedness, poverty and dirt, those signs and symbols that indicate the presence of Moslem rule.
-- Mark Twain
Spain is the only nation the Moors fear. The reason is, that Spain sends her heaviest ships of war and her loudest guns to astonish these Moslems; while America, and other nations, send only a little contemptible tub of a gun-boat occasionally. The Moors, like other savages, learn by what they see; not what they hear or read.
-- Mark Twain
A Syrian village is the sorriest sight in the world, and its surroundings are eminently in keeping with it.
-- Mark Twain
How they hate a Christian in Damascus! - and pretty much all over Turkeydom as well. And how they will pay for it when Russia turns her guns upon them again! It is soothing to the heart to abuse England and France for interposing to save the Ottoman Empire from the destruction it has so richly deserved for a thousand years. It hurts my vanity to see these pagans refuse to eat of food that has been cooked for us; or to eat from a dish we have eaten from; or to drink from a goatskin which we have polluted with our Christian lips, exept by filtering the water through a rag which they put over the mouth of it or through a sponge! I never disliked a Chinaman as I do these degraded Turks and Arabs, and when Russia is ready to war with them again, I hope England and France will not find it good breeding or good judgment to interfere.
-- Mark Twain
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