In her speech yesterday Freeland’s use of the word Daesh for the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is revealing of how reluctant the Trudeau regime is to name the threat posed by radical Islamism to the world. “Daesh” is just the Arabic acronym corresponding to ISIS. (The Arabic word used for Syria can also mean Greater Syria or the Levant, whence the alternative English acronym ISIL.) 
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It’s ridiculous really. We never spoke of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics as the SSSR, but that’s what we would have done if we had used the Russian, rather than the English initialism.