ISIS vs. ISIL

One interesting effect of partisanship is suddenly finding meaning in the mundane. From Hollywood movies to Michelle Obama's inauguration dress, everything confirms your views, once you reach a certain level of commitment. Thus, even when the hardly liberal NRO says that ISIS and ISIL are the same thing, Freepers figure out amusingly flimsy ways to explain how Obama's use of ISIL is proof of his nefarious intent.

Lucky9teen is a devout Obamaologist.

I believe EVERY word this jackal says means something, since he and his admin have taken to creating new meanings and changing the definitions of words.

arthurus knows every Muslim Obama kills is just to fool us.

The difference reflects the hopes of the Sultan in Washington. ISIL- Islamic State in the Levant includes Israel. The Sultan is being forced to drop some bombs and is doing that as sparingly as possible. He doesn’t want to hurt his heroes and coreligionists. He also intends that if ISIS(L) wins out then the Islamic Levant will include a destroyed Israel.

Boogieman thinks the problem is that Isis is an ancient Egyptian goddess.

But I use ISIS, because how often do you get to reference an ancient Egyptian goddess in modern political discussions?

I think this is exactly why Obama doesn’t use it. He knows that calling their group by the name of a pagan goddess would be viewed as an insult by devout Muslims, which is why he avoids it.

Fletcher J sees yet another sign of Obama's narcissism.

That could be it, but I think Obama says “ISIL” out of sheer arrogance. Saying ISIL instead of ISIS like everyone else makes him feel superior to his American subjects. This is just part of his ego-driven personality, such as when Obama insists on pronouncing Pakistan as “POKistan”.

In a common Freeper trick, Eroteme uses past Obama offenses to bootstrap this into an offense.

With a straight face, Pipes ascribes an arcane and benign rationale to this administration's choice of the term ISIL--this same administration that struck the terms Islamic terror and Jihad from the lexicon, that called the Fort Hood terror attack (performed in the name of Allah)"workplace violence". And this same adminsistration that told us, just the other night, that no matter how you slice it, there's no Islam in the Islamic State of Whatever.

plain talk does not need any thinkin' to disagree with Obama!

I say double down and refuse to accept the premises and terminology of the enemy (Obama)

WayneS thinks this is to fool people about where ISIS got it's arms.

I KNOW they are the same thing. I do not need a democrat to lecture me about it.

I think the REAL reason Obama uses ISIL instead of ISIS is that he sent money and weapons to them in Syria when they were using the name ISIS.

It is in his best interest to call them ISIL now, so that he can continue to fool his low-information supporters (who are the only people who still think there might be a difference) in to believing his claims that he has always opposed them.

Democrat Daniel Pipes? Hahahaha.