JEDDAH: Several Daesh terrorists have threatened to kill their families and loved ones in the Kingdom “if they do not repent,” according to a video that went viral on social networking sites on Sunday evening, report Arab News on Tuesday.The threat comes in the wake of a citizen, Saad Al-Anzi, killing his cousin, Madous Al-Anzi, on the first day of Eid Al-Adha, in an incident that shocked Saudi society.Saad was arrested two days after the crime was committed. The video shows Jammer Al-Khamali Al-Anzi, Al-Anbar Deputy Commander and a member of the Saudi branch of Daesh, posting pictures of his relatives working in theKingdom, including his brother, and calling for their killing “if they do not repent.”This comes as Al-Khamali’s family publicly disowned him in a press statement. Al-Khamali had previously been jailed for six years in the Kingdom, and was released by the courts.However, he travelled to Syria with Daesh and issued threats against his relatives and fellow citizens on Twitter and Facebook. Twitter has since suspended his account.Meanwhile, a video went viral on YouTube showing a woman inside her home thanking security officers for raiding the house.It appears she is the mother of a wanted suspect, according to several posts on networking sites.The rise of Daesh: A fourth name, Daesh, is now gaining favour. It is a loose acronym of al-Dawla al-Islamiya al-Iraq al-Sham (Arabic for Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) but sounds like the Arabic words Daes (“one who crushes something underfoot”) and Dahes (“one who sows discord”).According to The Guardian, the acronym has even become an Arabic word in its own right, with its plural “daw’aish” meaning “bigots who impose their views on others”.Lt Gen James Terry, commander of the US mission in Iraq and Syria, said his Arab allies have requested that Daesh is used to describe the enemy, reports the Wall Street Journal. “Our partners, at least the ones that I work with, ask us to use that, because they feel that if you use Isil, that you legitimise a self-declared caliphate,” he said. “They feel pretty strongly that we should not be doing that.”
