People call me a terrorist and ask me where’s my machine gun. She would never have wanted to choose an offensive name for me.”Ironically, considering Isis’s current association, the goddess Isis influenced both Muslim and Christian religions. Isis pops up in popular culture too, if you search “Isis name” on Google or visit Wikipedia’s “Isis disambiguation” page. There are still Ordnance Survey maps that label the Thames as “River Thames or Isis”. In 2014 Martinez started a petition urging the media to stop using her name to describe the terrorist group.

Source: The Guardian September 20, 2016 14:15 UTC