Stop Using My Name On News!

A Miami woman is petitioning to news outlets from using her name in their stories, mostly because it's synonymous with death, destruction and oppression; especially lately.

And no, it's not because of her, it's because of a group whose intentions run a little deeper that smearing a random name through the sand.  That name: ISIS.

Isis Martinez of Miami, Florida started an online petition to stop "the media"(no specifics there) from using her name so people will stop associating it with terrorism.  That might be a little difficult considering news kinda HAS TO talk about it, assuming ISIS is still in the whole "we're gonna murder and behead the infidels" business.

As the president pointed out in his speech a couple weeks ago, he's fine calling them another name: ISIL. That stands for "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant"(even though ISIS and those they're killing don't actually use that name). ISIS stands for "Islamic State of Iraq and Syria" which are the countries the terror organization is imposing their beliefs and where are airstrikes are targeted.

While it's horribly sucky this woman's name matches a name that is causing so much devastation in the Middle East, it's almost impossible not to use it.  Names have been synonymous with evil throughout history.  It's probably the reason you haven't seen Hitler, Vlad, Atilla, Genghis and Mao's cracking the top 50,000 most popular baby names for the past several decades.  If we aren't brave enough to call them what they are, doesn't that make us look kinda weak to our enemies(could you imagine being around in the '40s and hearing "that little man from Germany with the funny moustache is at it again")?    Plus, we're banking on the odds the average person knows the difference between a woman in Miami and a militant, radical Islamic faction that's beheaded hundreds.

Check out the rest of the story here(USA Today)