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ISIL

[ ahy-suhl ]

noun

  1. Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant. See ISIS.


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Currently, there are many millions of Muslims who vehemently oppose ISIL and the brutal current in Islam that it represents.

They only abandoned them when fighters from the Islamic State, widely known as ISIS or ISIL, got terrifyingly close.

“I was shocked to hear words of admiration for ISIL,” wrote Özyurt, a senior editor for CNN Turk.

He used the Arab acronym for ISIS or ISIL, as the self-proclaimed “Islamic State” commonly is known.

Is it too much to say that this al Qaeda breakaway widely known as ISIS or ISIL is really just a collection of serial killers?

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