The UK Government has condemned BBC’s decision to keep using the term ‘Islamic State’ in reference to the terrorist outfit, days after Prime Minister David Cameron asked media outlets to avoid using the misleading term which gives undue credibility to the “poisonous death cult”.
The row over phraseology widened as 120 British MPs wrote to the BBC to reconsider its use of term Islamic State (ISIS), as it may be seen as giving credibility and religious legitimacy to the terrorists.
It followed British Prime Minister David Cameron’s intervention calling for the use of Islamic State of Iraq and the levant instead.
Cameron said the term ISIS was misleading and gives undue credibility to the “poisonous death cult” that is “seducing” young Britons to go and fight for the terrorist organisation in Syria and Iraq.
However, BBC director general Tony Hall refused demands to drop the term on the ground that its coverage of the group must be impartial.