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ISIS, ISIL, Daesh — explaining the many names for terrorists

The ‘Splainer is an occasional feature in which RNS staff offers facts and background on a religion-related event, person or group in the news. (RNS) The terrorist organization murdering people across the Middle East and now — with the massacres Friday (Nov. 13) in Paris — in Europe is known by several names and acronyms. What does…