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No doubt Fox News is going wall-to-wall with this debunking story.
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Good Heavens. I’m just disappointed they have the same kind of idiots in France that make up shit like the wingnuts here in the States do, almost on a regular basis.
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PARIS (AP) — A preschool teacher who claimed to have been attacked by a masked assailant invoking Islamic State made up the story, French prosecutors said Monday.
I call shenanigans! Donald Trump and thousands of others that tweeted him saw the news footage of the assailant accosting this teacher!!
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A hint that something was off: the letter “É” that he claimed they’d carved into his face was backwards.
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That sounds more like it. In her original complaint she said the attacker said “This is Daesh” and stabbed her. But the problem in that is Daesh is pejorative for ISIS ( it is not as many report the Arabic acronym for ISIS ) and it made no sense for a person acting out of that groups interests would use that term.
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What is it with teachers these days? You’ve got this one in France, the teacher who “joked” with the young Somali girl about having a bomb in her backpack, and then Ahmad from Irving, TX.
They showed better judgement when they were only sleeping with their students.
It is in large part because of this that the attack happened in the first place. Ever since 9/11/2001, France has been devolving into a troubled country, one where the xenophobes whip up anti-Muslim resentment just like they do here.
France and the US have their fates as nations karmically tied together. This was a tragedy, for sure, but not altogether surprising or odd.
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It’s the thought that counts.
From what I understand, “Daesh” is, in fact, an acronym for the full Arabic name that ISIS/Daesh uses to refer to itself. It can be perceived as a pejorative both because acronyms are not common in the Arabic world, and because it’s one letter off from an Arabic word with pejorative connotations. Here’s the best explanation I’ve run across so far.
https://www.freewordcentre.com/blog/2015/02/daesh-isis-media-alice-guthrie/
Anyway, your point is still entirely on the mark – the group hates being called “Daesh,” so it’s at least somewhat suspicious for someone claiming to support them to use that name. Kind of in the same way that if someone is says they’re a Democrat, but repeatedly refers to “the Democrat Party” (as opposed to the Democratic Party) it would be reasonable to be suspicious of whether that person is really a Democrat.