France Calling ISIS Daesh

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I live in France and I'm half French, and what I'm going to say it not very politically correct.
The reason France is calling ISIS DAESH (what means the exact same thing in Arabic) is because France doesn't want to offend the Muslim community, 6 to 8 million Muslims in France out of a population of 65 million people, so that is a big percentage of the population. So not to offend them they decided to use DAESH, what removes the word Islamic or State from the French language.
Other explanation is the French always want to be different from the rest of the world, when the entire world used the word e-mail, the French use Courriel.