# Denver bookstore vandalized because it's called "ISIS" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 22, 2015, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/denver-bookstore-vandalized-because-its-called-isis/738318 "2015-11-22T23:38:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2015, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/denver-bookstore-vandalized-because-its-called-isis/738318/41 "2015-11-23T19:45:59Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > We can all be thankful they aren’t called the **S** yrian **D** ivision of **M** ilitant **B** ombings. Or their bitter rivals, the Bomber Division of Syrian Militants. ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2015, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/denver-bookstore-vandalized-because-its-called-isis/738318/42 "2015-11-23T20:51:38Z")
About 20 years ago I had a cat named Isis. I named her after a stripper who was friends with my neighbour. We should be pissed that a terror group has expropriated a perfectly lovely name. ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2015, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/denver-bookstore-vandalized-because-its-called-isis/738318/43 "2015-11-23T20:56:47Z")
The article doesn’t make it clear that the vandalism occurred _because_ the bookstore was named Isis. Maybe it’s a coincidence, and someone put a brick through the window because they just think it’s a shitty bookstore. > [@Karen Charbonneau-Harrison](#): > > “We’re all very heartbroken (about the Paris attacks) so I don’t know if somebody walking down the street just saw our name on the sign and kind of lost it for a moment and threw a rock through it,” Karen Charboneau-Harrison, the store owner, told CNN affiliate KDVR. “Or if it was an ignorant person who actually thought this was a bookstore for terrorists, I don’t know.” ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2015, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/denver-bookstore-vandalized-because-its-called-isis/738318/44 "2015-11-23T21:25:57Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > Or their bitter rivals, the Bomber Division of Syrian Militants. Splitters! ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2015, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/denver-bookstore-vandalized-because-its-called-isis/738318/45 "2015-11-23T23:39:29Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > It’s not a new phenomenon. Wasn’t there a character in **Julius Caesar** who was attacked due to his name being similar to another’s? Cinna the poet, mistaken for Cinna the senator, who was one of the conspirators against Caesar. This may or may not be historically accurate. ---
**Author:** ![Fubaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@Fubaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fubaya)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2015, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/denver-bookstore-vandalized-because-its-called-isis/738318/46 "2015-11-24T02:57:09Z")
> [@Peremensoe](#): > > I think they’re going with ‎ Shit, that’s the name of my cupcake store! ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2015, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/denver-bookstore-vandalized-because-its-called-isis/738318/47 "2015-11-24T03:07:34Z")
The vandals were stupid morons, but it is an unfortunate name these days. Reminds me of the [Ayds Diet Plan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayds) in the 1980s. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2015, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/denver-bookstore-vandalized-because-its-called-isis/738318/48 "2015-11-24T03:55:06Z")
My wife had a real cool bumper sticker on her truck, **“ISIS, ISIS! RA! RA! RA!”** that she has recently covered up with some other shit. It was on there for 15 years! (This is the 300k+ Nissan) The terrorists have fucking won. ---
**Author:** ![GreenElf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@GreenElf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenElf)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2015, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/denver-bookstore-vandalized-because-its-called-isis/738318/49 "2015-11-24T04:00:58Z")
I bought something from that bookstore years ago and received catalogs. I thought it was an odd name for a terrorist organization when that later came to be, but never guessed it would come to this. ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2015, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/denver-bookstore-vandalized-because-its-called-isis/738318/50 "2015-11-24T04:06:19Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > My wife had a real cool bumper sticker on her truck, **“ISIS, ISIS! RA! RA! RA!”** that she has recently covered up with some other shit. Smart move (sorry to say). ---
**Author:** ![JoseB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/joseb/32/1530_2.png) [@JoseB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoseB)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2015, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/denver-bookstore-vandalized-because-its-called-isis/738318/51 "2015-11-24T10:07:34Z")
A colleague of mine has a beautiful 6-year old, lovely girl, named Isis. I sometimes wonder what’s going to happen at school ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2015, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/denver-bookstore-vandalized-because-its-called-isis/738318/52 "2015-11-24T10:58:33Z")
The River Thames is known as the Isis in Oxford. There are lots of local organisations that use the name. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2015, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/denver-bookstore-vandalized-because-its-called-isis/738318/53 "2015-11-25T15:31:33Z")
> [@Colophon](#): > > The River Thames is known as the Isis in Oxford. There are lots of local organisations that use the name. Huh. I did not know that. [Here’s the story behind it.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Isis) ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2015, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/denver-bookstore-vandalized-because-its-called-isis/738318/54 "2015-11-25T17:05:09Z")
There’s a new-age place in Northern California called Isis Oasis - they do all sorts of Egyptian worship stuff as well as running an [animal sanctuary](http://www.isisoasis.us/about/animal-sanctuary/). We got to play with ocelots there a few years ago. I hope they’re not getting hassled about their name. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2015, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/denver-bookstore-vandalized-because-its-called-isis/738318/55 "2015-11-26T01:21:53Z")
Not quite the same thing, but shortly before the Boxing Day tsunami in 2004 killed so many people including in southern Thailand, a fancy new Japanese restaurant opened in Bangkok called … Tsunami. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2015, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/denver-bookstore-vandalized-because-its-called-isis/738318/56 "2015-11-26T05:05:36Z")
[Isis Dreamcatcher combo](http://i1284.photobucket.com/albums/a562/ChimeraPic/IMG_0087_zpsbkcusf53.jpg) above my bed. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2015, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/denver-bookstore-vandalized-because-its-called-isis/738318/57 "2015-11-26T15:11:57Z")
Looking out the window of the bus the other day, I noted a building downtown that has a sign proclaiming it to be “The 1515”. Clearly it’s owned by ISIS. I await the egg throwing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/denver-bookstore-vandalized-because-its-called-isis/738318.md?page=2)