Isn't "Islamic State" what they call themselves though? In doing so, hey're making a mockery of all the Muslim blood they spilled, but I don't think referring to them as Islamic State is inherently islamophobic? IS is probably a good compromise, although I think ISIS is what the media labeled them and what's ultimately going to stick anyways.

Every dictator or militia has used religious or patriotic names to call themselves. Even Hitler was part of the “National Socialist German Workers’ Party” but everyone knew them as Nazi’s. 

Socialists are not marred because of Hitler, nor did he necessarily fulfill what people consider Socialism to begin with.

ISIS can call themselves what they want, but the entire Muslim population of the world shouldn’t have to be constantly mentioned in the same breath. Media outlets make a very big point to include Islamic or Muslim or Shariah or other coined terms with different meanings to Muslims to vilify them as a whole with these groups. 

When you think KKK or WestBoro Church or any of the thousands of Christian influenced Militias in this country we don’t hear the word “Christianity” or Christians being vilified in the same sentence.

Why isn’t this sensitivity lent to Muslims as well? Westboro is a Baptist Church, but unless you researched that you will never know that. No Baptist out there is apologizing that they are not Baptist. 

That’s my point. They could just call them ISIS, but everyone makes a point to say “Islamic state” as if the Islamic state in itself is a bad thing and not the actions of these men.