iStock/Thinkstock(HALIFAX, Nova Scotia) — For years, the Immigrant Settlement & Integration Services agency in Halifax, Nova Scotia, has assisted new arrivals in settling in the Canadian province. As CBCNews reports, the agency will continue to do its work but under a new name since its acronym ISIS is apparently scaring off people.
ISIS, as the world has come to know, also stands for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, the militant Sunni extremist group that has become the new scourge of the Mideast.
Gerry Mills, the head of ISIS Nova Scotia, said that while his employees are now reluctant to tell others the name of their organization, what really precipitated the decision to drop ISIS was the reaction it got from Syrian and Iraqi immigrants.
Meanwhile, Halifax International Airport has also taken down a sign that reads, “”Starting your new life in Canada? Contact ISIS.”
Mills says a new, non-controversial name should be picked out within a week or two “that will outlive all of us, we hope.”
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