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Head of BBC Arabic: Don’t call Charlie Hebdo killers “terrorists”

Jan 25, 2015 7:27 pm By Robert Spencer

Tarik-KafalaHow about “Islamic jihadists”? Not on your life — not on the BBC or anywhere else in the mainstream media, which is indefatigably dedicated to keeping people ignorant and complacent about the jihad threat. “Paris attacks: Do not call Charlie Hebdo killers ‘terrorists’, says head of BBC Arabic Tarik Kafala,” by Adam Sherwin, the Independent, January 25, 2015:

The Islamists who committed the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris should be not be described as “terrorists” by the BBC, a senior executive at the corporation has said.

Tarik Kafala, the head of BBC Arabic, the largest of the BBC’s non-English language news services, said the term “terrorist” was too “loaded” to describe the actions of the men who killed 12 people in the attack on the French satirical magazine.

Mr Kafala, whose BBC Arabic television, radio and online news services reach a weekly audience of 36 million people, told The Independent: “We try to avoid describing anyone as a terrorist or an act as being terrorist. What we try to do is to say that ‘two men killed 12 people in an attack on the office of a satirical magazine’. That’s enough, we know what that means and what it is.”

Mr Kafala said: “Terrorism is such a loaded word. The UN has been struggling for more than a decade to define the word and they can’t. It is very difficult to. We know what political violence is, we know what murder, bombings and shootings are and we describe them. That’s much more revealing, we believe, than using a word like terrorist which people will see as value-laden.”

Of the Paris case, Mr Kafala said: “We avoid the word terrorists. It’s a terrorist attack, anti-terrorist police are deployed on the streets of Paris. Clearly all the officials and commentators are using the word so obviously we broadcast that.”

While Mr Kafala’s comments may surprise some, they are in line with the BBC’s editorial guidelines on reporting terrorism. The guidelines state: “[The BBC] does not ban the use of the word. However, we do ask that careful thought is given to its use by a BBC voice. There are ways of conveying the full horror and human consequences of acts of terror without using the word ‘terrorist’ to describe the perpetrators.

“The value judgements frequently implicit in the use of the words ‘terrorist’ or ‘terrorist group’ can create inconsistency in their use or, to audiences, raise doubts about our impartiality. It may be better to talk about an apparent act of terror or terrorism than label individuals or a group.”…

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  1. Richie says

    Jan 25, 2015 at 7:31 pm

    God forbid, we wouldn’t want to OFFEND the terrorists

    • EYESOPEN says

      Jan 25, 2015 at 8:33 pm

      That’s right. The followers of the so-called “religion of peace” might get their knickers in a twist – again.

  2. King Dave says

    Jan 25, 2015 at 7:33 pm

    Once again, it seems the liberal media is hell bent on assuring the public is always caught completely off guard

  3. Richie says

    Jan 25, 2015 at 7:34 pm

    It sounds like Tarik Kafala (no doubt a Muslim) is sympathetic to the Muslim terrorists and sees them as the victims

  4. Frank Scarn says

    Jan 25, 2015 at 7:47 pm

    “Don’t call Charlie Hebdo killers ‘terrorists’.”

    I’d agree with that.

    “Devout Muslims” is so much more accurate.

    • Ren says

      Jan 25, 2015 at 9:41 pm

      Authentic devout muslims, that is!

      • voegelinian says

        Jan 26, 2015 at 2:12 pm

        How do you tell an “inauthentic devout Muslim” from an “authentic devout Muslim”?

  5. black mamba says

    Jan 25, 2015 at 7:58 pm

    Oh, I don’t think the issue of their “impartiality” is in much doubt.

  6. KenD says

    Jan 25, 2015 at 8:10 pm

    Maybe the BBC would prefer to use the term Palestinians prefer:
    “Jews”.

  7. Graham says

    Jan 25, 2015 at 8:11 pm

    Another good reason to stop buying a TV licence and get your news and programs from the internet.

    They are terrorists and should be correctly labelled as such because that describes their motivation and action.
    Why on earth are we, the licence payer (not for long), expected to pay the salary of a Muslim or any other apologist?

    I wonder why people have lost trust in the BBC?
    It’s not that difficult to work out is it?

    For your records:- A terrorist is someone who takes part in terrorism.
    It’s easy, try looking in the dictionary.

    • Salah says

      Jan 25, 2015 at 11:41 pm

      Thank you, Graham.

      “Another good reason to stop buying a TV licence and get your news and programs from the internet.”

      That’s what I’ve been saying for years.
      Unplug your TV. They are using our money to feed us with lie after lie after lie.
      WE are funding these traitors.
      I, personally, get all my news from the Internet; it’s more than enough. I save money, I choose the sources I trust, and I don’t fund TRAITORS.
      More than six years without TV, and I’m HAPPY!
      We badly need a Media Strike. May be they’ll get the message. After all, money talks.

  8. Don McKellar says

    Jan 25, 2015 at 8:14 pm

    OBVIOUSLY Tarik Kafala doesn’t want to call them terrorists — to do so would mean that all those who savagely murder people in the name of Allah to enforce sharia blasphamy laws are being good moslems are terrorists! And those who support them (all moslems) are terrorist supporters. OF COURSE they are following Islam, and they are following it exactly as written. So they can’t be true terrorists (by moslem standards). Tarik Kafala simply can’t have that on the BBC Arabic! No way, no how can the truth be told or even alluded to with regards to Islam on the BBC! Not on Tarik Kafala’s watch!

    • Jaladhi says

      Jan 25, 2015 at 8:38 pm

      By name Tarik is a Muslim and he will never call another Muslim a terrorist!! This is the basic fact and everything else is taqiyya!!

    • Myxlplik says

      Jan 25, 2015 at 10:25 pm

      Hit the nail on the head with that one, +1

  9. sha says

    Jan 25, 2015 at 8:24 pm

    TERRORISTS

  10. gerard says

    Jan 25, 2015 at 8:30 pm

    “Don’t call Charlie Hebdo killers “terrorists””
    Oh!? Well then, how about “Cuddly Bunnies”? Will that do?!

    • gerard says

      Jan 25, 2015 at 9:11 pm

      How about “devils”? That’s what they are anyway, servants of the Devil/Allah!

  11. EYESOPEN says

    Jan 25, 2015 at 8:31 pm

    Mr Kafala, whose BBC Arabic television, radio and online news services reach a weekly audience of 36 million people, told The Independent: “We try to avoid describing anyone as a terrorist or an act as being terrorist. What we try to do is to say that ‘two men killed 12 people in an attack on the office of a satirical magazine’. That’s enough, we know what that means and what it is.”

    That’s right. It’s “workplace violence!”

    • Rob says

      Jan 25, 2015 at 8:47 pm

      Must be ‘workplace violence’.
      My other idea was ‘honour killing’ but they weren’t related.
      ‘Religiously motivated killing’?
      ‘Killing by dispossessed and marginalised people’?
      I’m running out of vocab here Mr Kafala.

  12. Aminah says

    Jan 25, 2015 at 8:31 pm

    Um, they are terrorists. It’s not really up for negotiation. They planned their attack to a cause societal fear and they attacked based on radical idealism of what they consider rightful vengeance. In the process of their planned attack, they killed law enforcement officers. After they sent their message at the magazine, they split up and another part of their terrorist cell carried out the second part of their terrorism message. They burst into a jewish supermarket, held hostages and continued their terrorist agenda.
    Not really much confusion on this if you ask me.

  13. Jaladhi says

    Jan 25, 2015 at 8:34 pm

    Well an Islamic Muslim terrorist by any other name will still be an Islamic Muslim terrorist!! This is acfact and not a value judgement!!

    Today’s journalists are afraid of telling the truth and bend out of shape(aka lie) to describe Islamic terrorism!!!

  14. jewdog says

    Jan 25, 2015 at 9:02 pm

    It’s cultural moral equivalence gone insane. It’s the new liberalism.

  15. Myxlplik says

    Jan 25, 2015 at 9:06 pm

    How about call them Muslim Sharia enforcers acting upon orders of the Prophet of Islam, Mohammed, to kill those who mock Islam or its Prophet, like happened when Mohammed had his followers munder Jewish satirists.

    http://youtu.be/nJgGOCFr83E

    • No Fear says

      Jan 25, 2015 at 9:24 pm

      Perfect !

      • mortimer says

        Jan 25, 2015 at 9:50 pm

        How about ‘vigilante murderers’.

        • Myxlplik says

          Jan 25, 2015 at 9:53 pm

          Yeah, I guess I might “radicalize” someone if I put it like that 😉

  16. No Fear says

    Jan 25, 2015 at 9:27 pm

    The degree of tribalistic (collectivist) thinking of a person can be judged by their reaction to the Quran.

  17. Georg says

    Jan 25, 2015 at 9:36 pm

    Well, a la Christianne Amanpour they are “activists”. You know, like those for animal rights, gay rights– just a difference of degree– that’s all. And “activist” obviously isn’t a “loaded term” for leftists… I’d argue tripping all over yourself to avoid a parsimonious term belies impartiality.

    “What we try to do is to say that ‘two men killed 12 people in an attack on the office of a satirical magazine’. That’s enough, we know what that means and what it is.” It’s NOT enough, it’s called terrorism, you nitwit. WHO WHAT where when how WHY. If you don’t call it terrorism you’re missing 50% of the journalism essentials. I hope everyone knows why this troll ignores his duty and honors his din. This isn’t unlike the problem of the inability of people to get data on criminals in countries such as Sweden which could elucidate trends… trends related to… YOU GUESSED IT: TERRORISM/ISLAMISM. I’m generally shocked/offended at how stupid they think we are, but then again, look at who’s in office and the prevailing discourse.

    • mortimer says

      Jan 25, 2015 at 9:49 pm

      Activist social workers…7th century social workers with Bronze Age ideas and manners.

      And Islam has nothing to do with Islam.

      • Georg says

        Jan 25, 2015 at 10:00 pm

        LOL @ 7th century activist social workers; she might as well just use that.

        So, to get this straight: Don’t draw the Prophet, don’t say terrorist, and nothing has to do with Islam. Um………………… to quote Dr. Evil (seems germane to this topic):

        “How ’bout NO!!!!!!!!”

    • pumbar says

      Jan 26, 2015 at 9:34 am

      Nice post.

  18. mortimer says

    Jan 25, 2015 at 9:44 pm

    ‘Terrorist is such an unpleasant, ugly word!’

    But not if you are a pious Muslim.

    Koran 8.60 “TURHIBUNNA” (terrorize them)

  19. Ren says

    Jan 25, 2015 at 9:46 pm

    “Barbarism” is related to a tribal culture that existed over a thousand years ago, which muslims want to maintain still in 2015…

  20. JOSEPH says

    Jan 25, 2015 at 10:15 pm

    What really bewilders me is that a lot of the people I talk to know what those Mudslimes are up to and they know they the media is biased, but they just don’t care. They also say that good Muslims are not like that and there are only a few cases (24,900??) like that. When are these people going to wake up? When I say that there are millions of good Muslims, the cemeteries are full of them, I am being intolerant and closed minded. WHAT GIVES?

    • voegelinian says

      Jan 26, 2015 at 2:16 pm

      “What really bewilders me is that a lot of the people I talk to know what those Mudslimes are up to and they know they the media is biased, but they just don’t care. They also say that good Muslims are not like that and there are only a few cases (24,900??) like that. ”

      And many even in the Counter-Jihad think essentially, effectively the same way (though they dress it up with bravado and braggadocio and so to the undiscerning eye it looks somehow robustly different).

  21. Kiwikaffir says

    Jan 25, 2015 at 10:42 pm

    The BBC is run by Dhimmis! As is most of Britain. It’s almost too late for british to fight back with the quality of leaders they have!

    • Georg says

      Jan 25, 2015 at 11:05 pm

      Right. And don’t forget the [non]quality of the media. I mean, it’s almost as though they’d have to go out in the streets to be heard. Surely no one has that much hatred in their hearts…

  22. gravenimage says

    Jan 25, 2015 at 10:47 pm

    Head of BBC Arabic: Don’t call Charlie Hebdo killers “terrorists”

    Mr Kafala said: “Terrorism is such a loaded word… We know what political violence is, we know what murder, bombings and shootings are and we describe them. That’s much more revealing, we believe, than using a word like terrorist which people will see as value-laden.”
    ………………………………………….

    “Value-laden”—in other words, don’t imply that murdering journalists and cartoonists is a *bad* thing…

    <ore:

    How about “Islamic jihadists”? Not on your life…
    ………………………………………….

    Indeed not. How about "Martyrs" or "Shahids"? Perhaps Tarik Kafala would find that preferable…

    Here he is, with some disturbing stuff about regarding "Palestinian" terrorists (not that he would use that word, of course) as heroes:

    http://biasedbbc.org/blog/2011/10/31/whats-in-name/

    And here he is from three years ago, grotesquely characterizing the Muslim Brotherhood as "moderate":

    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-12504820

    He uncritically quotes an MB spokesman claiming that Christians in Egypt were eagerly begging them to form a political party. Never mind that the MB believes Christians should be treated as threatened, second-class dhimmis.

    Very disturbing stuff. That the BBC has this apologist for Jihad and Shari'ah as the head of its Arabic division is profoundly disturbing—but, grimly, not all that surprising.

  23. Sumit Basu says

    Jan 25, 2015 at 11:03 pm

    Don’t call a spade a ‘spade’. Because ‘spade’ is such a loaded word. To be fare and impartial to all we should use terms like a ‘device’ or an ‘instrument’ or a ‘tool’ to dig the earth. When there are such wonderful politically correct words for a ‘spade’ why call a ‘spade’ a spade?

  24. TKF says

    Jan 25, 2015 at 11:47 pm

    I swear, if Islamic terrorists were beheading these idiots, the last words out of their clueless mouths before their vocal cords were severed would be…”This has nothing to do with Islam!”

  25. citycat says

    Jan 26, 2015 at 1:13 am

    84%? They do think enmasse
    Who are the perpetrators of the Allahistic lie to parry the inquisitive infidels?
    By the time the lie is sussed it is yesterday’s news, and on to the next one thrown like mud at the infidels

  26. Rob says

    Jan 26, 2015 at 1:25 am

    Maybe all Western countries with Muslim Diasporas should issue an annual invitation to leave.
    The freedoms on which our states were established, including free speech, were in place long before Muslim migration.
    There is no requirement for the host nations to change their laws and customs to suit the migrants.
    Just as the best response to a joke you don’t like is not to laugh, the best response to a culture you don’t like is LEAVE IT!

  27. BC says

    Jan 26, 2015 at 2:02 am

    I saw G Osborne the UK Chancellor on CNN yesterday and he actually used the words Islamic extremism,
    which was quite a surprise as his boss Cameron insists that the extremism is not Islamic!

  28. No Fear says

    Jan 26, 2015 at 2:03 am

    “The UN has been struggling for more than a decade to define the word and they can’t.”

    The OIC would prefer to define terrorism as “mocking Mohammed”.

  29. PRCS says

    Jan 26, 2015 at 2:28 am

    I AGREE!

    Let’s stop calling them ‘terrorists’, ‘extremists’, ‘radicals’, etc. and start calling them what they really are:

    VIOLENT JIHADISTS

    • john spielman says

      Jan 26, 2015 at 7:31 am

      they’re just muslims following ole muhammed’s pbuh* example
      pbuh- perpetual banishment unto hell

    • Shane says

      Jan 26, 2015 at 9:23 am

      How about identifying them as Islamic Holy Warriors who were enforcing Islamic blasphemy laws as any good Muslim should do!

    • gordon miller says

      Jan 26, 2015 at 11:29 am

      “Jihad extremists” is redundant because all jihadists are extremists. “Islam extremists” has the same flaw——redundancy

      Try “Muslim religionists” or “Religious Muslims.” I think this works better because there are so many so-called “moderate Muslims” who apparently do not follow the teachings of the Qur’an. In fact it seems they have never cracked open the book. Somebody please tell me why these people call themselves “Muslims” in the first place. They’re not a race. They’re not a culture. So what are they?

      • voegelinian says

        Jan 26, 2015 at 1:48 pm

        Try “Muslim religionists” or “Religious Muslims.” I think this works better because there are so many so-called “moderate Muslims” who apparently do not follow the teachings of the Qur’an.

        By “so many” you mean how many…? How do you determine they are actually what they say they are (or what they seem — to you) to be? If an ideology is at war with us, must all its warriors be frontline soldiers? Does that mean that any Muslim who is not currently exploding, lighting a fuse, or stabbing someone is “apparently” a “moderate Muslim”? Have you never heard of jihad of the pen and jihad of the mouth? Have you never heard of stealth jihad? Speaking of not cracking open anything, have you actually been reading Jihad Watch this past decade plus?

        So many questions, so little time…

    • roger woodhouse says

      Jan 26, 2015 at 11:29 am

      Better still BBC .Just stop reporting all acts of ‘terrorism’ That way the British can continue their life of ignorance and they can all ‘vote LibLab Con in peace

      • Babs says

        Jan 26, 2015 at 3:31 pm

        You may be sure that al-Beeb doesn’t report all acts of terrorism, particularly not those perpetrated by the cult of permanent offence.

        Still this statement proves one point – that the so-called bastion of free speech is anything but, and that Islam has dhimmified it. This is one man we know of in a position of influence. We also know that its head of religious broadcasting is Muslim.

        The words we use matter a great deal. This man is actively involved in minimising acts of terror in the hope that eventually it will not register with us. We must not allow the BBC to do that.

        How many more Muslims are actively engaged in perverting honest reporting of acts of Islamist terror by deliberately altering the discourse and undermining the BBC?

        Whether it has or not, the BBC should lose its royal charter for this perfidy alone and for its failure to publish the Balen Report (paid for by the UK taxpayers and suppressed at their cost) without explanation. The BBC should certainly no longer be able to charge the people of the UK for the dubious privilege of tuning in to it. It’s behaviour is a consummate disgrace.

    • acomnenus says

      Jan 26, 2015 at 12:31 pm

      No, they are peace makers as part of the peaceful religion of islam. Hah! hah!
      Lord have mercy upon those idiots and morons.
      When they will rule Europe, they will see than who these criminals are.

    • iosef funes says

      Jan 26, 2015 at 3:34 pm

      son criminales,

  30. Michael Copeland says

    Jan 26, 2015 at 3:30 am

    “If someone offends the Prophet no problem, we can kill him”, explained one of the Paris killers.

    These words featured in the BBC Panorama documentary “The Battle for British Islam”. They express Sharia law, but the documentary never explained this.
    To “revile Allah or his messenger” is one of the “Acts that entail leaving Islam”, says The Manual of Islamic Law, “Reliance of the Traveller” (o8.7, o8.7(4)) (a free download). The penalty is death, and can be carried out, vigilante style, by anyone without legal consequence, “since it is killing someone who deserves to die” (o8.4).
    All those European leaders in denial are misleading their people.

    • mortimer says

      Jan 26, 2015 at 9:38 am

      When most Europeans and Americans know those verses, we will have won. Politicians will have to know them too.

  31. Joe says

    Jan 26, 2015 at 3:49 am

    Let’s call them “devout muslims, following the path (sharia) laid down by Mohammed”

  32. Johnny Pallyswine says

    Jan 26, 2015 at 3:51 am

    Please don’t judge all Nazis by the actions of a tiny handful of extremists who invaded Poland, France, Russia, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Norway, Greece, Yugoslavia etc.
    They had no support among the vast majority of ordinary Nazis.
    Nazism is a peaceful and tolerant way of life. The second world war had absolutely nothing to do with Nazism and Nazism had nothing to do with the second world war.

    We must learn to live and let live (apart from Jews, of course).
    Islam: the only religion that will kill or rape you for not appreciating it
    – and then claim that you’re the one with the phobia.

    • cisco7912 says

      Jan 26, 2015 at 4:07 am

      Is it a handful of extremists, we have “terror activists” killing in every part of the world, Muslims comitting honor killing, femail genetail mutilation, arranged marrages and horror stories regarding the how Muslims treat women. If this were cathlics the left would screaming about banning catholics, but for some odd reason Islam gets a “free pass” to do what it want without any “blowback”, quite the contrary it will soon be illigal to critisise Islam as under Obama with his Islamic advocacy group CAIR it will be deemed as blasphomy.

      • particolor says

        Jan 26, 2015 at 6:41 am

        Catholics Haven’t got OIL Under them !!

    • gordon miller says

      Jan 26, 2015 at 11:35 am

      Very well put. Yeah, those good nazis really took the blame. What a miscarriage of justice.

  33. cisco7912 says

    Jan 26, 2015 at 3:58 am

    Maybe we call the “activists”, like CNN http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jan/10/christiane-amanpour-calls-charlie-hebdo-terrorists, like peace activists, or animal activists. We could call them “terror activists”, as one of their aims, was after “avenging the prophet” was to create terror.

  34. AJ Liberphile says

    Jan 26, 2015 at 4:21 am

    “Inner strugglers”?

    • Huck Folder says

      Jan 27, 2015 at 2:04 am

      Umma kampfers?

  35. RICHTHOFEN says

    Jan 26, 2015 at 4:21 am

    In the interest of impartiality – let’s call them what they are – MUSLIMS – that would not be partisan, or biased, it would be the truth – something which the BBC would not recognise if it jumped out of a burka and bit them on the asre!

  36. Laura says

    Jan 26, 2015 at 4:23 am

    And don’t call people who break into your house burglars!

    • particolor says

      Jan 26, 2015 at 6:44 am

      That’s Right !! They are Property Reasigners !!

  37. duh_swami says

    Jan 26, 2015 at 4:32 am

    Allah identifies itself as a terrorist in Quran, Mahound said he had been made victorious by terror. Not all Mahoundians are terrorists, but they must appreciate, and aid, when possible, terrorism by their brothers, or they are going against Allah and Mohammad and will have to face hellfire later..

  38. Lee says

    Jan 26, 2015 at 4:41 am

    Yes, even Muslims who describe their acts or motives as “terrorizing” people shouldn’t be called terrorists, as that’s too loaded. For example, an Aussie Muslim recently said [my caps]:

    ‘…“May allah accept the french brothers who TERRORISED France. Allahu akbar. Day by day we will bring the war home to you,” he said. And he is now urging others to carry out similar attacks in Australia.’
    – see http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/aussie-traitor-wants-to-spill-blood-in-extremist-fight/story-fni0fiyv-1227186345523

    However, *anyone opposed to 7th century, arch-reactionary, Islamofascism* is immediately smeared by journalists as “far-right” – even us on the left – but hey, that’s not a loaded term with Nazi connotations… The fact is, journalists are committed to creating a civil-war, with Muslims as their troops, and they deliberately do all they can to shore up and protect the anti-Semitic mass-murdering Islamofascist side, while weakening those of us who criticize it.

    • particolor says

      Jan 26, 2015 at 6:54 am

      What a Handsome Specimen !!

    • voegelinian says

      Jan 26, 2015 at 1:51 pm

      There’s no reason to reach for the conspiracy theory to explain the West’s ongoing myopia to the problem of Islam — unless you are operating under the conditions of an Explanatory Vacuum (one that fails to appreciate the breadth & depth of the sociocultural dimension to that myopia; and, closely related to that, the West’s greatness).

  39. Jogi says

    Jan 26, 2015 at 4:42 am

    Many Muslims want to leave Islam but are afraid of being killed. But there is a hope. http://sanatanaparishad.blogspot.in/

  40. Crixus says

    Jan 26, 2015 at 4:43 am

    I’m no fan of the increasingly progressive dominated BBC nor of their editorial culture, but to be fair, font misconstrue this policy as endorsement of the jihadis.

    It’s a policy that comes from decades of dealing with IRA and protestant terrorism in the UK, recall that we’ve been dealing with domestic terror since the early 70s.

    The motivation behind it is to deny the political platform that the perpetrators are seeking to bolster by simply distilling the act to what it is, murder.

    The problem us that this policy isn’t really suitable for what is essentially a religiously motivated crime, the killers had no agenda other than their conviction that they were carrying out their duty to punish transgressors of their warped and dark age laws. Denying the link is to suggest that there is another agenda and thus is not the case or helpful, indeed all it does is encourage apologists.

    The use of language is critical and this policy need to be looked at by the BBC Trustees as whilst it helps to undermine the motivation of a political terrorist it does not with a jihadist and indeed permits an apologist agenda.

    Fox also got up my nose the other day by referring to the Paris murders as executions. This legitimises the killings in the eyes of some as just and legal. An execution is a legally state sanctioned activity to terminate a life in punishment for a crime. Using the word legitimises what was simply a brutal horrific murder.

    Let’s call it what it is shall we?

    • Nick says

      Jan 26, 2015 at 6:07 am

      you seem to have a fairly good grasp on the way it is, the same as I do. now all we have to do is educate every other American, European, and all who are not being told the truth. I’m open to suggestions on how we can do this.

    • voegelinian says

      Jan 26, 2015 at 2:04 pm

      Crixus seems to contradict himself:

      First he says:

      The motivation behind it [the BBC idiocy] is to deny the political platform that the perpetrators are seeking to bolster by simply distilling the act to what it is, murder.

      The problem us that this policy isn’t really suitable for what is essentially a religiously motivated crime, …Denying the link is to suggest that there is another agenda and thus is not the case or helpful, indeed all it does is encourage apologists.

      Then he goes on to say:

      Fox also got up my nose the other day by referring to the Paris murders as executions. This legitimises the killings in the eyes of some as just and legal. An execution is a legally state sanctioned activity to terminate a life in punishment for a crime. Using the word legitimises what was simply a brutal horrific murder.

      Let’s call it what it is shall we?

      In the BBC case, he rightly complains they are minimizing the nature of the attack by generalizing it as mere murder; in the FOX case, he complains that they are endowing it with too much explanation and should rather call it “murder” (the addition of “brutal, horrific” doesn’t help).

      In fact, the descriptor “execution” is helpful, because what we have here with Muslims is that they believe in an alternative set of laws, an alternative sense of justice, an alternative moral order, an alternatiive spiritual order, an alternative society; indeed, an alternative world which in their fanaticism is morally and spiritually supreme, and whose supremacy must be translated into political actuality through a various forms of physical violence & terror in the overarching context of a war. (And a good part of this war is conducted in the various forms of taqiyya deceit which include pretending to be harmless.)

      • voegelinian says

        Jan 26, 2015 at 2:06 pm

        I messed up on the italics coding. Curses on these comment drafting boxes whose font appears like a grey ghostly wisp of its normal self, and also has a lame way of bumping down as one types and inserts carriage returns.

  41. cassadro says

    Jan 26, 2015 at 4:52 am

    Jihadists are not “Radical Extremists” They are Fundamentalists, the truest followers of the Prophet – the elite – ensured of entry to Paradise, unconcerned about the Great Day of Judgement. Jihad is sanctioned by the Quran, includes not only death but the inculcation of fear of the likelihood of death. If that isn’t a definition of terror, what is?

    Islamic fundamentalism. Islamic beheadings. Islamic suicide bombings. Generation of mass and individual fear of being killed or mained. Jihadists are proud of killing and of generating fear, and are thrilled by the knowledge that their efforts are causing demonstrations and panic.

    That is the reason, too, why these-called moderate Muslim will never – ever – utter an objection to the jihadist exemplars of the rue Faith – the Terrorists for Allah, and either be killed or condemned to Hell on the Great Day of Judgement for having critized a Fundamentalist.

    It is idiotic for any journalist to refuse to preface such terror with the correct adjective. It is like refusing to call a Mass Christian.

    Anyone who is not an Islamaphobe has their head in the sand.

    • Huck Folder says

      Jan 27, 2015 at 2:09 am

      Dere ain’t no fun in islam. Take da fun outta fundamental and all you’s have left are da mental bros.

  42. thomas pellow says

    Jan 26, 2015 at 5:01 am

    Supplementary.

    “We must not call Charlie Hebdo killers ‘terrorists’, says BBC boss.

    “Tarik Kafala, the head of BBC Arabic, says using the term ‘terrorism’ is too ‘loaded’”

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/bbc/11369104/We-must-not-call-Charlie-Hebdo-killers-terrorists-says-BBC-boss.html

    The BBC, with its Islamic BBC Arabic TV service in the political vanguard, instead uses misleading, loaded euphemisms such as- ‘militants,’ ‘insurgents,’ ‘fighters,’ ‘rebels’ or ‘men.’

    And, British people have to pay a tax to finance the BBC Arabic TV service’s Islamic propaganda to Arabic global audience!

    • particolor says

      Jan 26, 2015 at 6:58 am

      That’s OK We have to Pay Halal Extortion to be ALLOWED To eat their Blessed Food here !!..

    • Mirren10 says

      Jan 26, 2015 at 9:02 am

      ”And, British people have to pay a tax to finance the BBC Arabic TV service’s Islamic propaganda to Arabic global audience.”

      I haven’t paid for a TV licence for **years**, and have no intention of ever doing so.

      The beeb is riddled with mohammedans, like this tarek kalafa, and leftard useful idiots. I wouldn’t believe the beeb if they told me the sun rises in the East. They are *all* a bunch of lying, biased, propagandists, and aren’t worth my spit.

    • Arthur Brede says

      Jan 26, 2015 at 1:19 pm

      The world service of the Bubbling Bullshit Courier only exists because it’s paid for by regular ads for Turkish Airlines. the Islamic Development Bank, Malaysian tourism and other various ‘definitely-non-terrorist-supporting’ defenders of human rights and fundamental freedoms. It’s currently riddled with part-whitewashed pedophilia/sexual exploitation scandal and half its anchor-people are semi-literate, mentally-challenged ‘social minorities’ with funny names and speech impediments. A bit like the UK government, really. Makes me ashamed to be a Brit. Really.

  43. zebo says

    Jan 26, 2015 at 6:04 am

    Nothing new here.They have done this long time ago with another word.

    The word Muslim is never used when muslims carry out attacks.
    I guess the reason is because the word muslim is so loaded and that people are struggeling to define the word muslim as there are so many different groups in islam who interpret the islam in very different ways and everyone already knows which crimes are committed by muslims,you don’t have to use this term.

  44. Judi says

    Jan 26, 2015 at 6:05 am

    Well, just call them ‘murderers’ and be done with it!!

  45. Bre says

    Jan 26, 2015 at 6:11 am

    Luckily for BOTH of us–Mr Tarik Kafala does not Pay my bills, nor Snore in my face–therefore he has a snowball’s chance in hell of telling me what to do or, how to behave.
    Call it what it is… Terrorism !!
    Looking the Other Way…. “Political Correctness”… and making EXCUSES for the barbaric behaviors of sociopaths wearing pajamas, with Ninja Turtle headbands—screaming like banshees when separating a human from their head–while tripping over one another–trying to catch the “blood money” shot on their iPhone, does not bode well for their (yes–the TERRORISTS) contributions toward humanity.
    Stop coddling the Murdering SWINE. Call them out and make them take RESPONSIBILITY—as should every person that aids, contributes, or in anyway covers for them—they should be ousted–and CALLED TERRORIST Publicly. Branded–and Known.

  46. Angemon says

    Jan 26, 2015 at 7:17 am

    Mr Kafala said: “Terrorism is such a loaded word.

    Yeah, with muslims doing the overwhelming majority of terrorist acts in the world and stuff.

    • Huck Folder says

      Jan 27, 2015 at 2:12 am

      AK47s are such loaded weapons.

  47. jowy says

    Jan 26, 2015 at 7:21 am

    Let’s just call it for what it really is: Barbaric bloody murderous jihad terrorist!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  48. Val Aversa says

    Jan 26, 2015 at 7:59 am

    This nightmare is getting worse by the day and we are supposed to act like the 3 Monkeys – see no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil!

    Or if you prefer like the King with no clothes on but was getting praise from all his subjects because they were afraid to tell him the truth about him being naked.

    All this hiding away from the bare truth is never going to solve the problem of facing the enemy and fighting back with all the weapons at our disposal. Wake up before it is too late and we have missed the last opportunity of keeping a sane world of freedom.

  49. Franko K. says

    Jan 26, 2015 at 8:01 am

    Need to get Warthogs based in Turkey. Rev up the Warthogs – a hundred sorties a day.
    Search “A-10 Warthog Gatling Gun”
    If you rape a woman who goes to prison or your buddies stone her to death, You may belong to ISIS, AQIS, AQAP, AQIM, Al Qaeda, Al-Nusra Front, DAESH cutthroats, Boko Haram, or Khorasan Group.
    http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=33098
    How Sharia Law Punishes Raped Women

  50. The Countess says

    Jan 26, 2015 at 9:07 am

    Simplified:

    It’s not, “_IF_ you criticize, we kill.” That’s a threat and terrorism.

    It’s WHEN you criticize, we are obliged to kill per the Koran and sharia.” That’s an order but needs someone willing to be a martyr. (It’s also, a promise.)

  51. epistemology says

    Jan 26, 2015 at 10:21 am

    ‘Terrorists’ equals ‘Islamic jihadists’, there are no other terrorists on this planet right now. Islam is the religion of terrorism, although our opponents label it otherwise.

  52. Sam says

    Jan 26, 2015 at 10:28 am

    BBC is correct. They are Muslims. They should be called so.

    How can you read such a screwed up paper? They are working on the word TERRORISM for 10 years? Do they have a dictionary?

  53. Clinton Lewis says

    Jan 26, 2015 at 11:30 am

    I call them mohammedites, and I can’t get past their overweening arrogance. The blood of the Hebdo massacre victims isn’t even cold yet and those muslim jackasses are holding rallies in Pakistan in which they are actually demanding an Unconditional apology from France and the west. Let me pick my jaw up off of the floor. What a disgrace, how dare they keep making themselves out to be the victims. When they show the same respect for the lives, property and blood of non muslims that they show for their oh so precious prophet, then I will have some regard for their feelings. When they regard the feelings and the sensibilities of non muslims whom they kill and terrorize in the name of Islam, whom they sell into sex slavery and basically defile and dehumanize, and when they apologize “unconditionally” for regarding Mohammed above the God given gift of human life, then they will have earned the right to be treated with the respect that they demand, and that all human beings should be accorded. Criminals should be treated as such. Islam is the guilty spark that ignites their corrupt souls, spreading corruption on this Earth. It appeals to Man’s base nature, it’s so much easier to hate and kill and wallow in self pity than it is to rise above it and love your enemies. I can tell you one thing, these mohammedites and their incessant crimes are wearing my love, powerful thin, I dare say I struggle to resist the temptation to give in to open hatred. See how Islam corrupts the world with it’s sick antichrist ideology?

    • voegelinian says

      Jan 26, 2015 at 2:10 pm

      “The blood of the Hebdo massacre victims isn’t even cold yet and those muslim jackasses are holding rallies in Pakistan in which they are actually demanding an Unconditional apology from France and the west. Let me pick my jaw up off of the floor.”

      Yes; but the more flabbergasting thing is how the mainstream West (i.e., like 85% of Every Damn Body in the West) can’t see this.

  54. Don McKellar says

    Jan 26, 2015 at 11:33 am

    What a piece of garbage this man is. If the BBC is supposed to have a trusted news organization and be a trusted source for news, how can this man who is willfully withholding facts because of his personal agenda remain in his position? He needs to be removed immediately. As long as he is there, BBC is nothing but an infotainment news source of the lowest rung.

  55. Jack Holan says

    Jan 26, 2015 at 12:17 pm

    What seems difficult and insurmountable for the UN and the Head of the Arabic Section of the BBC to define because it is emotion laden, terrorism and terrorist was very simple and clear cut years ago when people and all types of Organizations had a moral compass and a sense of right and wrong. There was nothing difficult about it and being a word that was emotion laden was irrelevant.
    When the IRA was active the BBC had no compunction about using the words terrorist and terrorism. It’s probably because it was those Irish Catholics. Pre-State Israel the BBC had no problem use the terms terrorists and terrorism for the different liberation groups or was it because they were Jews.
    So, the picture is now becoming more CLEAR These are Islamic terrorists/terrorism You want to maintain an image-They Get A Pass

  56. mih says

    Jan 26, 2015 at 1:10 pm

    no terrorist no killers no extremest MUSLIM MURDERERS.

  57. Angry says

    Jan 26, 2015 at 2:53 pm

    The BBC is a left-wing authoritarian corporation that demands a TV licence from British viewers, whether we like it or not. I don’t pay the licence fee just to what pro-left news.

    The BBC is supposed to be unbiased / impartial, but, they are pro-left, biased towards the right and partial to the left. When it comes to reporting the news regarding pakistani muslims grooming, abusing and raping non-muslim White underaged girls, they refer to the devils as ‘Asians’; which is an insult to Asians. pakistanis are middle eastern, not Asian.

    The BBC love muslims, but hate Jews. They always send reporters to palestine to interview the Jew haters, but never to Israel to interview the victims of hamas terrorism.

    I’m surprised that James Harding (Jewish), who is head of BBC news programming, doesn’t take a stronger stance in favour of Israel; unless of course he’s a fully fledged Judenrat.

    Never believe a word the BBC news tell you, they will only tell you what you need to know that suits their left-wing propaganda.

    If there’s any Brit reading this, then you will know what I mean. And I hope you agree with me on this and reply in comment.

    • Joginder Singh says

      Jan 26, 2015 at 3:30 pm

      Oh we do and as a Sikh I stopped paying for the BBC as they started using the term “ASIAN” when we all know its “MUSLIM or ISLAM” that is the correct term to use

      • Angry says

        Jan 26, 2015 at 4:03 pm

        @ Joginder Singh

        Thank you for your reply.

        You will also know, that the BBC were complicit in the cover-up of the paedophile scandal that was rife within the BBC’s headquarters from the 1950’s – onwards, for eg, Jimmy Savile, Jonathon King etc.. etc.. etc..

        My personal opinion is, the BBC is just as corrupt as the Labour Party, the Labour controlled Rochdale constituency, where underaged girls reported abuse and rape from pakistani groomers, were ignored by the socialist controlled child services department, for fear of being called a ‘racist’.

        The bastards never intervened nor investigate nor report to the police, This is Labour policy for ya, if you don’t want to be called a ‘racist’, vote Labour, don’t call a muslim a muslim, and never mention ‘pakistani’ (or worse.. paki)

        Lastly, let’s not forget that even India suffers at the hands islamic rapers and terrorists.

    • Etienne says

      Jan 26, 2015 at 4:36 pm

      You are dead right fellow Brit. The BBC is also known as the Bolshevik Broadcasting Corporation and the Biased Broadcasting Corporation. They only advertise for staff in the left wing Guardian and are packed with leftists and cultural revolutionaries. They have a hateful and pervasive anti Christian agenda.

      • Angry says

        Jan 27, 2015 at 2:18 pm

        @ Etienne

        Ah, the communist Guardian news rag for unionist students, BBC interns and left-wing politicians.

        Is it any wonder why the left-wing hate Jews so much with all the pro-palestine / anti-Israel news coverage they riddle across their one-sided hate fest pages. Thanks for reminding me about that anti-semitic news rag for the left-wing.

    • James C says

      Jan 26, 2015 at 7:13 pm

      All too true, AFA this Brit can see.

      Someone really ought to institute a Hitler Prize for sheer downright dimmietude. Or at least base a drinking-game on the body-count of the “religion of death”. (non-alcoholic,of course – nobody wishes to offend the Killers for Mo.)

  58. albert says

    Jan 26, 2015 at 3:57 pm

    Terms we could use.

    Mohammed’s Nazis

    IslamoNazis

    JihadiNazis

  59. vox populi says

    Jan 26, 2015 at 4:05 pm

    Maybe someone should inform Daesh of how much anti-islamic some islamic people think the are.
    Maybe BBC could organize a nice event for this, like a late evening discussion panel in Raqqa, with live coverage, bringing there some of the ones saying high and loud islam is the religion of peace?

  60. CHARLES THE HAMMER MARTEL says

    Jan 26, 2015 at 4:10 pm

    Enough said.

    Bukhari:V4B52N220 “Allah’s Apostle said, ‘I have been made victorious with terror.'”

  61. Michael Copeland says

    Jan 26, 2015 at 7:43 pm

    “The Koran directly commands us to commit terrorism, so why are we afraid of it?” proclaimed Egyptian MP Ragab Hilal Hamida in the Egyptian Parliament.
    http://libertygb.org.uk/v1/index.php/home/root/news-libertygb/6653-i-fought-back

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