Dad Starts Petition To Get the World To Stop Using the Acronym ISIS Because It’s His Daughter’s Name – IOTW Report

Dad Starts Petition To Get the World To Stop Using the Acronym ISIS Because It’s His Daughter’s Name

Daily Mail-

A family are calling for people to stop referring to terror group Islamic State as ISIS to avoid confusion with their eight-year-old’s name.

Frank and Sheridan Leskien – from Bexley in Sydney’s south – named their daughter, Isis, after the Egyptian goddess who was portrayed as a model wife and mother, and is the patroness of nature and magic.

Now the name is associated with the terror organisation Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) – also known as Islamic State – who have claimed responsibility for beheading U.S. and British nationals on camera.

Isis’ parents have appealed to the media and the public to stop using the name to refer to the terror group before harm comes to one of the ‘tens of thousands’ of women who share the same name.

‘It’s a beautiful name we spent so long choosing it. [The Egyptian goddess] Isis is a nurturer and someone who cares. People used to say to us: “What a beautiful name”,’ Mr Leskien told Daily Mail Australia.

‘This is hurting my little family and we’ve lost family because they’re scared and don’t want anything to do with us…it’s soul-destroying,’ he said.

‘I have been calling her Isis for eight years, if not longer, because I was calling her Isis while she was in the womb.

‘Do we have to wait until something that happens to one of them before [someone listens]?’

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Ya? Think of how my Dad felt when his beloved cocker spaniel, Nazi, was intentionally run over in 1934.

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27 Comments on Dad Starts Petition To Get the World To Stop Using the Acronym ISIS Because It’s His Daughter’s Name

  1. You named your daughter after and ancient Egyptian deity and now you want everyone to quite saying it?
    You have the foresight and judgement of a mud puddle. You are a non story and a moron. No one is going to stop saying ISIS because your little girl is all butt hurt. Go away and never darken the internet again.

  2. Those damn ancient Egyptians. Didn’t they realize this was going to happen, and that little girl would be forever traumatized?

    Ugh.

    @Claudia: My older brother and grandfather also share 9/11 as a birthday. I don’t hear them bitching about it.

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