{"id":21479,"date":"2014-09-12T18:57:15","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T22:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=21479"},"modified":"2014-09-12T18:57:15","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T22:57:15","slug":"isis-or-isil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/21479\/isis-or-isil\/","title":{"rendered":"ISIS or ISIL?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re confused about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/387834\/theres-no-difference-between-isis-and-isil-daniel-pipes \" target=\"_blank\">what to call the newest terrorist threat<\/a> \u2013 ISIS or ISIL \u2013 Daniel Pipes, the renowned conservative Middle East expert, has an answer.<\/p>\n<p>Whichever one you want.<\/p>\n<p>The Obama administration prefers \u201cIslamic State in Iraq and the Levant\u201d (ISIL), while almost everyone else uses \u201cIslamic State in Iraq and Syria\u201d (ISIS). At first blush, <a href=\"http:\/\/nation.foxnews.com\/2014\/08\/24\/obamas-use-isil-not-isis-tells-another-story \" target=\"_blank\">some commentators<\/a> think they detect a subtle framing effect to blur any possible links between the rise of this group with Obama\u2019s blundering Syria policy.<\/p>\n<p>Pipes isn\u2019t one of them. According to him, \u201cboth translations are accurate, both are correct, and both have deficiencies \u2013 one refers to a state, the other has an archaic ring.\u201d Pipes should know since he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danielpipes.org\/books\/greater.php \" target=\"_blank\">wrote a book about the underlying history<\/a> that gives rise to the translation difficulty.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever one calls ISIS\/ISIL, Pipes rightly focuses on the most important issue: \u201c\u2026ridding the world of this barbaric menace.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re confused about what to call the newest terrorist threat \u2013 ISIS or ISIL \u2013 Daniel Pipes, the renowned conservative Middle East expert, has an answer. Whichever one you want. The Obama administration prefers \u201cIslamic State in Iraq and the Levant\u201d (ISIL), while almost everyone else uses \u201cIslamic State in Iraq and Syria\u201d (ISIS). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1727,274,4587,4578,1125,24,2414,682],"class_list":["post-21479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-daniel-pipes","tag-iraq","tag-isil","tag-isis","tag-middle-east","tag-obama","tag-syria","tag-terrorist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21479"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21482,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21479\/revisions\/21482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}