Sunday, March 22, 2015

“Isis Child”: A French rock group changes its name to … – MetroNews

They no longer wanted to be associated with the jihadist group. To avoid confusion with the Islamic state (in English “Islamic State in Iraq and Syria” or “Isis”), the members of the Lorraine rock trio “Isis Child” (child of Isis, in French) decided to change name, reports L’Est Républicain .

“There are roughly one year, we realized that our music had much less popular” tell the musician Freddy Mazzucco and singer Nathalie Pelissier regional daily. The relatives also warn: when seeking information about them on the internet, content no longer go back to the search engines. Or are overshadowed by the results of children recruited by the Islamic state …

“Continue to bear this name would have been suicide”

“We do not do politics. But our name is equated with that, no, we do not want. Continue to bear this name would have been suicide,” they said again. The group, called “Isis Child” for 15 years in honor of the Egyptian goddess Isis, so now bears a new English name, “Angel’s Whisper”, which can be translated as “the whispering of the angel “.

And Lorraine are not the only victims of this unfortunate disambiguation. If the American rock band” ISIS “hold for now his name on Facebook is for this reason The fans were announced last August not want to wear his shirt.

Women petition bearing the name Isis

A bitch also paid the price in the British series “Downtown Abbey” after complaints from viewers, the creators decided to remove the character of Isis, showing the sudden weakened and suffering from cancer

To. United States, a young woman named “Isis” was with other women facing the same situation, launched an online petition to protest rejection reactions that now aroused her name and ask the press not to use this acronym to refer to the Islamic state. A call that seems to have been heard by many Anglo-Saxon media, which prefer now that of “IS” (for “Islamic State”).

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