{"id":6268,"date":"2014-09-18T16:32:11","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T16:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/?p=6268"},"modified":"2014-09-18T16:32:11","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T16:32:11","slug":"confusion-over-terrorist-groups-name-forces-mobiles-order-of-isis-to-change-theirs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/?p=6268","title":{"rendered":"Confusion Over Terrorist Group’s Name Forces Mobile’s Order of Isis to Change Theirs!!"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Isis<\/a>

Isis Ball 2013<\/p><\/div>\n

The public relations problem first became apparent when T-shirt-wearing members were accosted in public, according to one OOI member.<\/p>\n

One member was harassed at Sam’s Club, she said.\u00a0She had a gentleman come up to her, asking a lot of questions … and she said we are a Mardi Gras organization,<\/em>\u00a0the OOI member recounted.\u00a0He didn’t understand us having ‘Isis’ on our clothing.<\/em><\/p>\n

Another member who works in a doctor’s office also got attention for her shirt, the member said.<\/p>\n

As we all know know, ISIS <\/a>is the name of a middle eastern terrorist group that our military is fighting on a daily basis.<\/p>\n

This just shows how current world events can impact a innocent Mobile, AL Mardi Gras Krewe in a serious manner.<\/p>\n

One of Mobile’s newest parading groups, a ladies’ organization, the\u00a0Order of Isis\u00a0was formed in 2008, held its first ball in 2009, and staged its first parade in 2010. They have 115 members. Henceforth they will be known as OOI.<\/p>\n

\"Order<\/a>

Order of Isis Royalty<\/p><\/div>\n

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When OOI was formed, the name was chosen because we were founded on friendship, and Isis is the goddess of friendship and love<\/em>, the OOI member said.<\/p>\n

We’re just hoping that we can be OOI for a couple of years until all of this dies down, and then we can go back to our original name<\/em>, she said.<\/p>\n

The decision was also difficult because the group had already ordered throws and T-shirts this year<\/em>, an OOI board member said. Some cups, footballs and koozies have already been printed, but there may be time to change other orders,<\/em> she said.<\/p>\n

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The public relations problem first became apparent when T-shirt-wearing members were accosted in public, according to one OOI member. One member was harassed at Sam’s Club, she said.\u00a0She had a gentleman come up to her, asking a lot of questions … and she said we are a Mardi Gras organization,\u00a0the OOI member recounted.\u00a0He didn’t understand […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,107,1053],"tags":[1054,547],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6268"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6268"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6283,"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6268\/revisions\/6283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}