The company thought about changing the name because of the similarity with the terrorists

The American pharmaceutical company Isis Pharmaceuticals is considering the possibility of changing the name because of the similarity with the name of the Islamic State terrorist group - Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham, or ISIS for short.

The company was named after the Egyptian goddess Isis. However, its name is the same as the English abbreviation ISIS. Although customers understand that a pharmaceutical company is not affiliated with terrorists, the name still causes negative associations, according to Isis Pharmaceuticals.

The company did not report which replacement options are being considered, but noted that no final decision was made on renaming.

After the terrorist attacks in Paris, the responsibility for which took “Islamic State”, or IG, the cost of Isis shares on the New York Stock Exchange fell by four percent.

Previously, “Forum” wrote that on the night of November 14 in the French capital was accomplished a series of attacks, the victims of which were, according to the latest data, 132 man, more than 350 suffered. Militants staged shooting in several cafes and restaurants, the suicide bomber blew himself up on Voltaire Boulevard, took hostages in the Bataklan concert hall, three explosions sounded near the Stade de France football stadium in the suburb of Saint-Denis.

Two weeks earlier, on October 31, the Airbus A321 aircraft of the Russian airline Kogalymavia, flying from Sharm el-Sheikh to St. Petersburg, crashed in Egypt. All of the 224 people on board died. According to the Federal Security Service, reason The disaster was the explosion of a homemade bomb with a capacity of up to one kilogram in TNT equivalent. Responsibility for the attack have taken Militants of the group that swore allegiance to the Islamic State.