Hillary Clinton’s childhood pet cat Isis may be paws for concern.
A family photo from the Democratic presidential candidate’s memoir shows her as a pre-teen girl holding up the feline friend with a name now associated with Islamic State terrorists rather than an ancient Egyptian goddess.
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The picture surfaced Thursday afternoon in a tweet by a Politico editor who said his teenage daughter noticed the cat while reading Clinton’s 2003 book “Living History.”
“Here we pose in our 1959 Easter finery with our cat, Isis,” Clinton wrote in a caption underneath the picture. The cat, along with the clothes worn by Clinton and her brothers in the photo from Park Ridge, Ill., symbolized what she described as a scene “right out of a Norman Rockwell illustration.”
Clinton’s campaign didn’t immediately respond Thursday to a request for comment and the cat’s breed.
The terrorist acronym ISIS comes from the English translation of their Arabic name — Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. Yet Modern-day Pagans still worship the goddess Isis today after her status spread from Egypt all over the Roman Empire, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica.
In addition to cats, many women have also been named Isis over the past several millennia. The coincidental link between the revered goddess Isis and ISIS terrorists has outraged thousands of people who have signed an online petition calling on the media to avoid calling the brutal terrorists “ISIS.”
Over 64,000 people had signed it by Thursday afternoon.
“Please sign and help the thousands of women and little girls named Isis who are suffering from this backlash caused by the media,” the petition said. “Help us take back our name.”
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