Posted on 06/30/2015 12:35:42 PM PDT by robowombat
British PM to Broadcaster: Don’t Call Islamic State ‘Islamic State’
By Patrick Goodenough | June 30, 2015 | 4:08 AM EDT
(CNSNews.com) – British Prime Minister David Cameron took issue Monday with Britain’s public broadcaster’s use of the term “Islamic State” in reference to the terrorist group, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
During a BBC Radio 4 interview days after an ISIS-claimed terror attack on a Tunisian beach hotel cost the lives of at least 38 people, most of them British tourists, Cameron was asked whether he regarded “Islamic State” as an existential threat.
“I wish the BBC would stop calling it ‘Islamic State’ because it is not an Islamic state,” he said.
“What it is is an appalling, barbarous regime. It is a perversion of the religion of Islam and, you know, many Muslims listening to this program will recoil every time they hear the words ‘Islamic State’ –”
Radio 4 presenter John Humphrys pointed out that that is the name used by the group itself, but said he supposed the BBC could use the term “so-called” in front of the name.
“ So-called’ or ISIL is better,” Cameron said, using another acronym for the jihadist group.
“But it is an existential threat,” the prime minister continued, “because what’s happening here is the perversion of a great religion, and the creation of this poisonous death cult, that is seducing too many young minds, in Europe, in America, in the Middle East and elsewhere.”
“And this is, I think, going to be the struggle of our generation. We have to fight it with everything that we can.”
The BBC said in a statement, quoted by the Guardian: “No-one listening to our reporting could be in any doubt what kind of organization this is. We call the group by the name it uses itself, and regularly review our approach. We also use additional descriptions to help make it clear we are referring to the group as they refer to themselves, such as ‘so-called Islamic State.’”
The terrorist group which has declared a “caliphate” across parts of Syria and Iraq under its control calls itself al-Dawlah al-Islamiyah, Arabic for Islamic State.
Media organizations around the world variously call it Islamic State, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, sometimes just ISIS or just ISIL, and sometimes Da’esh, an acronym for al-Dawlah al-Islamiyah fil-Iraq wa ash-Sham.
Some use modifiers like “so-called,” “self-proclaimed” or “the group that calls itself” before naming it.
Obama administration officials frequently dispute that the group has anything to do with Islam. President Obama and the White House most often refer to it as ISIL, while Secretary of State John Kerry favors Da’esh.
Last September several British Muslim wrote a letter to Cameron urging the use of the name “Un-Islamic State.”
And a top Sunni authority in Egypt launched a campaign urging media outlets to abandon all names for the group that include the word “Islamic,” in favor of “al-Qaeda separatists in Iraq and Syria” or QSIS. (Al-Qaeda in Iraq was a precursor to ISIS, whose leader had a fallout with al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in 2013.)
Last Friday’s deadly attack by a gunman in Tunisia occurred on the same day as a suicide bomber killed 27 people and wounded more than 200 more in a mosque in Kuwait, and an extremist in France is suspected of having beheaded his employer and crashed a truck into a U.S.-owned chemical factory.
Earlier an ISIS leader issued an audio message online calling for terror attacks everywhere during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.
Got their a*s kicked by Al-Qaeda Tech in the Taqiyya Brand Halal Breakfast Sausage 72 Virgins Bowl.
Shall I quote from the koran and hadith?
Shall we discuss the life of mad mo?
Cameron won big in his election and now he is free to be the Liberal that he is.
OK. I suppose "Religion of Terror" (the ROT, if you will) or "savages" are not acceptable to you as well, Davey? I suggest that you not hold your breath waiting to receive the "Winston Churchill statesmanship in the face of the enemy" honor, Little Dave. At least not without a nearby fainting couch.
Britain is full of subhuman savages and this jerk doesn’t want to offend them. Got news for you, Cameron. The reptile brain Stone Age barbarians hate him because he is not one of them.
They should change the name: AARP
Assyrian Army of the Religion of Peace
Those Islamic State savages. That’s a good way to put it.
Nice ring to it — Sounds like the name of a football team ...
Broadcaster to PM:
“My job is clear communication, not nursing your political agenda!”
Just like an American politican...run one way an once elected go back to who you really are and enemy of the people who elected you...next time Briatain needs help if we have somebody like our current regieme running things here idiots like this will be taken out by sharia law...good luck Brits
Freegards
LEX
Just another corrupt and ignorant politician.
ISIS Has Up To 42 Million Supporters in the Arab World
Whatever, Dave.
There are no reliable elected officials - only potential stooges and traitors.
Wow, the BBC, the home of politically correct speech, getting a lecture that it isn’t being vague enough about our threats? As I often have said and thought, Cameron’s conservative party is a pale image of what Thatcher built for them. May as well just have Brown back in there.
They could play a new game with sports uniforms, cheerleaders and all. Kick off the game with RPGs, and use a scimitar to get the ball for further play. Losers get whatever treatment chosen by the surviving winners.
LOL! — I like your sense of humor (and the way you think!)
Talking about perversion and Islam, Dave how is the inquiry into how hundreds of girls in Rotherham were groomed by adherents to that "great"" religion", going? Anyone sacked? Arrested ? Prosecuted? Had their Knuckles rapped?
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