• Why Jihad Watch?
  • About Robert Spencer and Staff Writers
  • FAQ
  • Books
  • Muhammad
  • Islam 101
  • Privacy

Jihad Watch

Exposing the role that Islamic jihad theology and ideology play in the modern global conflicts

UK’s top counterterrorism officers tell media to “rein in” coverage of the Islamic State and jihad terror

Nov 14, 2017 6:57 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

Britain’s top counter terrorism officers have urged the media to rein back on coverage about Islamic State and terrorist attacks because of concerns that it helps to spread propaganda.

And here we hoped (against hope) that Britain had learned a lesson following the shocking, massive coverups of Muslim rape gangs brutalizing tens of thousands of innocent UK girls, who were referred to by their attackers as “easy meat” and “trash.” One report indicated that up to a million girls were assaulted.

The coverup was because police and social workers were terrified of being called  “racist” or “Islamophobic,” so they sacrificed their young to avoid such labels.

This scandal and horror should have resulted in an uproar in the UK. Instead, a Labour Party Member of Parliament, Naz Shah, retweeted that the young girls should “shut up for the good of diversity.”

Now comes another shocker: top counter-terrorism officers in the UK — Mark Rowley and Cressida Dick — are pressuring the media to curb reports about the Islamic State and jihad attacks, putting the onus on the media for spreading Islamic State “propaganda” and terrifying the public. This attempt to create a false utopia and project to the public an illusion of safety is a detriment to Britons.

Sanitizing the truth about the Islamic State and jihad terror only adds to the risk. It will leave UK families without ample knowledge of jihad activity, threat levels, and how to assess those levels to protect themselves and their children. These so-called “top counterterrorism officers” are in effect requesting a partial cover-up of Islamic State activity and jihad terror. In so doing,  they presume to think for the public and hope to silence potentially warranted public outcries, and avoid public accountability. In effect, they’re hiding their potential failures, while aiding and abetting jihadi activity, even if unwittingly.

Britain is in crisis and headed for disaster. The European Union’s counter-terrorism coordinator, Gilles de Kerchove, has already “singled out the UK as having more radicalised Muslims than any other country in Europe.” Britain has also “lost” 56,000 Muslim migrants due for deportation, including over 700 ex-cons. M15 revealed that up to 23,000 jihadis are living in Britain, not 3,000, as previously thought.

“Rein in Isis and terrorism coverage, police chiefs tell media”, by Graham Ruddick, Guardian, November 13, 2017:

Britain’s top counterterrorism officers have urged the media to rein back on coverage about Islamic State and terrorist attacks because of concerns that it helps to spread propaganda.

Mark Rowley, the assistant commissioner at the Metropolitan police, said a “fine balance” was needed in coverage of terrorism because Isis tries to use events as propaganda to “radicalise and influence”.

Speaking at the Society of Editors conference in Cambridge, Rowley said: “I do think there are some ways that you can rein back what you do. There is a fine balance. If [Isis] are looking to influence, you have to ask, are you helping them to influence.”

Cressida Dick, the Met commissioner and Britain’s most senior police officer, also called for calm when covering terrorist attacks.

“You must inform but not glorify and provide the platform this evil craves,” she said. “You must investigate but not in a dangerous way which disrupts the extensive efforts of the police and security services. You must comment but not in a way that creates excessive fear and multiplies the terror.”

Dick made her comments in a wide-ranging speech about the police’s relationship with the media.

The commissioner started in the role in April and spent her first day in the job at the funeral of PC Keith Palmer, who was murdered in the Westminster terror attack.

Dick said she wanted to “reset” the relationship between the Met and the media and “stop the fighting”. She pledged to be “transparent” in her work with the press and that relationships with a journalist “should not be categorised in the same way as a relationship with a criminal”.

However, she refused to apologise for Operation Elveden, the investigation into allegations of inappropriate payments to police officers and other public officials. This operation saw more than 30 journalists arrested or charged but then not convicted….

Share this:

  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)
  • Click to print (Opens in new window)
  • Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)
  • More
  • Click to share on Skype (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)

Follow me on Facebook

Filed Under: "Islamophobia", dhimmitude, Featured, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), Jihad in the West, journalistic bias, United Kingdom Tagged With: Cressida Dick, Mark Rowley, UK counterterrorism


Learn more about RevenueStripe...

Comments

  1. fbijihadidefender says

    Nov 14, 2017 at 7:13 am

    I see. The way to counter Islamic Jihadist in UK is burying your head in the sand. God save UK, especially Britain’s top counter terrorism officers.

  2. MFritz says

    Nov 14, 2017 at 7:44 am

    Yeah, the inconvenient truth will most certainly go away if you don’t report about. The same with black mob violence if you stop arresting criminals and let them get off free. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

  3. WorkingClassPost says

    Nov 14, 2017 at 7:52 am

    But, but… why bother to cover it up?

    It’s only ‘mental illness’ anyway!

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 14, 2017 at 9:47 pm

      Good point…

  4. Richard Paulsen says

    Nov 14, 2017 at 8:11 am

    When the refugees arrived…
    – When the Muslim refugees arrived, I did not protest – they were just refugees-
    – When they built mosques and Islamic culture centers, I did not protest, they were allowed to pray to Allah.
    – When they demanded just Halal food in schools, I did not protest – they can eat only what the Quran allows them to eat.
    – When they gang raped women and girls, I did not protest – rapes occur in every culture, not representing true Islam.
    – When they performed terror attacks, I did not protest – they were just a few extremists responsible, not representing true Islam.
    – When they demanded Sharia Law Zones, I did not protest – they needed their space – and we do live in a free country.
    – When MP:s took their seats in the Parliament, I did not protest, they are almost half of the population and they have their rights.
    – When they introduced Islamic Sharia Law, demanding that it apply to the entire population, it was too late for me to protest.
    http://gatesofvienna.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/bracken-refugees.jpg

    • Sadden by the recent news from UK. says

      Nov 14, 2017 at 2:55 pm

      Very well said !!!! Unfortunately, Canada is heading in the same direction as UK.

    • Lydia says

      Nov 14, 2017 at 9:33 pm

      Bingo.
      That is their plan.

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 14, 2017 at 9:50 pm

      Great reprise of the famous Martin Niemöller quote re the Nazis.

    • Frustrated an Citizen says

      Nov 15, 2017 at 6:55 am

      Very well put…we’ll never return to the UK now.

  5. Magooey says

    Nov 14, 2017 at 8:30 am

    In the same vein, cut down reporting on the Blitz as otherwise it will help spread Nazi propaganda. Yes, this is sarcasm.

    • Jim says

      Nov 14, 2017 at 5:16 pm

      Magooey, that’s about the size of it.

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 14, 2017 at 9:53 pm

      Yep.

  6. Elise says

    Nov 14, 2017 at 10:20 am

    This scandal and horror should have resulted in an uproar in the UK. Instead, a Labour Party Member of Parliament, Naz Shah, retweeted that the young girls should “shut up for the good of diversity.”

    DAMN

  7. Elise says

    Nov 14, 2017 at 10:21 am

    Diversity is a codeword for White Genocide

  8. Matt says

    Nov 14, 2017 at 11:04 am

    This is exactly what a Police State looks like.

  9. Jack Diamond says

    Nov 14, 2017 at 11:16 am

    Cressida Dick. Some people live up to their name.

    If an infidel falls in a forest (or any Muslim wilderness in London, Manchester, Birmingham, Rotherham, Newcastle etc)… and no one reports it, does it make a sound? Apparently not.

    • LeftisruiningCanada says

      Nov 14, 2017 at 12:36 pm

      True…and, if a teenage girl is raped in a filthy council flat, but it’s done by a gang of muslim brothers, is it really a crime?

  10. Tim says

    Nov 14, 2017 at 1:08 pm

    Is this the government media complex popping up it’s head? Looking around, seeing if everything is as it should be?
    “Should be” meaning are the people being kept in the dark enough or should there be a little more control.

    • Georg says

      Nov 14, 2017 at 1:12 pm

      The only people in Britain with firearms are being told by a Muslim mayor to control the media.

  11. Georg says

    Nov 14, 2017 at 1:10 pm

    This is all Sadiq Khan. It is infiltration and a tangible example of Islamization. Sadiq has shown full well by divesting scant resources for London police to a unit of 900 “officers” who scour the net looking for any Brits who criticize Islam or the terror police now realize isn’t happening that his concern is not the well-being of Brits but the image of Islam.

    “You must inform but not glorify and provide the platform this evil craves,” she said. ”

    I would like to see a single example where the British press glorifies Islamic terror. Again, this is Sadiq talking. It’s a typically weaselly ridiculous Islamist way of propagandizing where absurdities are casually presented as truth so as to move the parameters of tolerated discourse by hook or crook. Just as Islamists in the US repeatedly speak of a non-existent epidemic where Muslims are regularly gunned down in the streets simply for being Muslim, Khan asserts the British press “glorifies” Islamic supremacist terror simply by acknowledging its existence.

    The guy has called moderate Muslims, such as those at Quilliam (who, in fact, don’t seem adequately “moderate”), “Uncle Toms”. So, not only is he an ignoramus but a racist buffoon.

    If anyone’s in doubt as to whether Khan is an Islamist this video makes it clear. Notice the jihadist flags being waved by children in the audience. Charming.

    • Georg says

      Nov 14, 2017 at 1:37 pm

      A kid is waving a flag at 1m:45s that is identical to the Taliban flag shown in this image, minus the sword at bottom.

      https://www.google.com/search?q=taliban+flag&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjPkPjW2b7XAhUY5mMKHUlSBW0Q_AUICigB&biw=1536&bih=798#imgrc=FqS68Usd74YJzM:

      Both white and black jihadist flags are being waved, with the explanation as to the significance of each stated here:

      “During the 2000s, it became popular in mujahid terminology to refer to the black flag as al-raya and the white flag as al-liwa’, after the terms of the black and white flags flown by Muhammad according to the hadith. The white flag is sometimes identified as the “flag of the Caliphate” while the black one is dubbed the “flag of Jihad”.

      • Benedict says

        Nov 14, 2017 at 4:37 pm

        The main objective: “projecting a positive image of Islam” :

        I’m afraid it’s too late for that, mr. Khan. Islam has been found out, but unfortunately not by the gullible Londoner.

        • Georg says

          Nov 14, 2017 at 10:06 pm

          Great points, Benedict and Jim. To me, Khan is the embodiment, almost a type-specimen, of Islamization and entryism in the West. He’s always pushing, pushing, pushing with Islam. But only to the extent he can. Every so often he goes too far, betrays his Islamist obsession and loyalty, and apologizes profusely or whatever cheap behavior diverts attention. That’s exactly what you’d expect from an Islamist.

          Put another way: He does as much as he can get away with in Islamizing London/Britain. If he could do more, he would. So it is not his intentions which limit his Islamization of London/Britain but the ethos of native/loyal/traditional Brits which is waning and which he is on a concerted effort to track down wherever it lives and stamp out. Much of his behavior involves demoralizing/shaming Brits and glorifying and promoting Islam.

    • Jim says

      Nov 14, 2017 at 5:41 pm

      Kahn talks of Mohammed’s “mercy.” Here is the truth about Mohammed’s “mercy”: Oh there is mercy, oh unbeliever, and it is given ONCE. If you are “asked” to convert, you have three options: convert, pay jizyah (a crushing tax), or be killed. I don’t know about you, but I don’t call this freely making a choice.) If you convert, you will be shown mercy (if they believe you), but for those who refuse to convert or are not able to pay the jizyah every year, your reward shall be death by the “sword.” (LASER light sword?) If you convert and later decide “this is not for me,” then death shall be your “mercy.” Nah, he speaks with forked tongue.

      Yet again, the devil is in the details, which Khan glosses over.

      He is doing at least 3 forms of lying in the video:
      Kitman (lying by omission),
      Taqiyya (lying outright and deception), and
      Tawriya (lying by ambiguity.)

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 14, 2017 at 10:01 pm

      The egregious Sadiq Khan is as much as symptom as a cause. dhimmitude and censorship of any criticism of Islam was rampant in the UK before he was elected; now, it is even worse.

      • Georg says

        Nov 14, 2017 at 10:08 pm

        Very true, gravenimage. He is part of a feedback loop of Islamization.

        • LeftisruiningCanada says

          Nov 15, 2017 at 3:36 pm

          Good posts on mr khan. Been wondering about that guy. Thanks.

        • gravenimage says

          Nov 15, 2017 at 11:36 pm

          Agreed.

        • Georg says

          Nov 16, 2017 at 2:45 am

          You got it, LeftisruiningCanada. I’m empathetic with what you must be going through with what is the governmental version of the Pope. BTW, Canada holds a very, very tight hold on my heart as I vacationed there when younger (from northern NY), so feel I love it more than some Canadians do, just as many American newcomers appreciate what we have to offer more than many of us do.

  12. John says

    Nov 14, 2017 at 1:34 pm

    The truth will set us free and save our future from islamofascism.

  13. Jim says

    Nov 14, 2017 at 5:14 pm

    That guy has no idea what he is up against. You’d think he would become educated on the Koran and hadiths, but apparently no. There seems to be no end to Chamberlains. Churchill, when comes such another?

  14. Santa Voorhees says

    Nov 14, 2017 at 6:27 pm

    More proof that the UK is a joke.

    Thanks, UK, now because of you I am starting to question my own sanity, wondering how all this can even be real!

  15. Cheer Bear Girl says

    Nov 14, 2017 at 7:41 pm

    So they’re going to censor the ugly truth about Jihad. The UK is finished as a nation.

  16. Mark A says

    Nov 14, 2017 at 8:22 pm

    If this is a typical example of the senior officers in British policing, then the U.K. is in serious trouble.

  17. Lydia says

    Nov 14, 2017 at 9:30 pm

    “Britain’s top counter terrorism officers have urged the media to rein back on coverage about Islamic State and terrorist attacks because of concerns that it helps to spread propaganda.”

    Because…. that’s what counter-terrorism officials do, right, that’s their job, right?

    Cut back on covering the real and true threats about islamic state terrorism and jihad attacks…. because of ‘concerns’ that it helps spread…. THE TRUTH!

    The PROPAGANDA is the covering up of THE TRUTH!
    Which is exactly what they are doing.

    See? Counter terrorism as an agency does not exist to counter terrorism.
    It exists to counter ‘counter terrorism’ and to label us as ‘terrorists’ so that they can come after us.
    That is the sole purpose of their existence and of being created by the globalists.
    Ironic as that sounds, it’s true and we see it.

  18. gravenimage says

    Nov 14, 2017 at 9:41 pm

    UK’s top counterterrorism officers tell media to “rein in” coverage of the Islamic State and jihad terror
    …………………………

    So these counterterrorism officers are demanding that the press *whitewash terrorism*?

    They do know that “counterterrorism” means they are supposed to be opposed to terrorism, don’t they…?

    • LeftisruiningCanada says

      Nov 15, 2017 at 3:32 pm

      There is no terrorism. There are only misunderstandings, over enthusiasms, and a few cases of mental illness.

      Remember, War is (the Religion of) Peace.

      • gravenimage says

        Nov 15, 2017 at 11:38 pm

        Grimly funny.

  19. Zack says

    Nov 15, 2017 at 3:15 am

    I feel sad for the UK, but so many people are brainwashed. I foresee a day when European cities are as violent as those in the Middle East, with car bombs exploding every week, suicide bombers, etc.

    Like people in Israel, the natives of the UK will be expected to shut up and take it, or else accused of being nazis should they fight back or lift a finger to protect themselves. If they move the police into zones where militants rule, they’ll be called ‘occupiers’ and shamed by the globalists.

    The self-hating liberals in the US are jealous of the UK and Europe- they can’t wait for the day when the US is the same way, when US citizens are second class to invading ‘refugees’ and made to feel guilty for living in a decent place. They’ll work to make both Europe and the US hellholes, and for natives of the counties to be labeled xenophobes and nazis if they dare resist.

    Get used to this nonsense. Get used to rape. Get used to more and more terrorist attacks. Get used to bowing to some sharia law nonsense. Get used to the media and government doing their best to cover it all up.

    • LeftisruiningCanada says

      Nov 15, 2017 at 3:33 pm

      Nice summary. It’s like what the mayor of london said, but only you sound like you regret it.

  20. Anne Smith says

    Nov 15, 2017 at 4:57 am

    The Government are also behind this covering up, as they are very anxious to keep the population quiet and believing that everything is being done to protect them and that ISIS and jihadists are more or less defeated and on the way out. One thing they really don’t want is for the British people (the real British people that is) to realise just how far the Islamic invasion has proceeded and become upset and vote for UKIP.

    The only thing politicians care about is the number of votes they can get – nothing else at all.

  21. Badger says

    Nov 15, 2017 at 7:07 am

    78 years has taught me that I am not the type that panics. Having said that I admit to being genuinely frightened at the way this country has declined in just about every social metric I can think of over the last twenty years.

    When our security services tell our media to go soft on reporting terrorism this is a signal we are in deep, very deep trouble.

    I can only say thank God for the Internet or we would be totally ignorant of the facts. If the police had their way some of the less spectacular acts of terrorism would be censored completely. And for Cressida Dick to say to journalists “You must inform but not glorify and provide the platform this evil craves” she is attempting to shift some of the blame to the reporters of terrorism and away from herself.

    She couldn’t name a single case where any of the media, mainstream or otherwise, have glorified terror. Why invent this nonsense if it is not to hide the facts of their own failures? Like the continuing and unstoppable muslim rape of our children?

    • James says

      Nov 15, 2017 at 7:46 am

      I find the idea that ppl in Britain are frightened by hearing of jihadism and ISIS insulting. It imples we are all rabbits, and spineless ones at that. People need to be able to find out about Islamic terrorism, and the Koran and the Sunna. Ignoring, or hiding, or reacting wrongly to these crimes is folly.

  22. IanB says

    Nov 15, 2017 at 10:17 am

    Mark Rowley and Cressida Dick are both closely associated with the secretive and insidious leftist organisation Common Purpose (CP) which encourages its “graduates” to “lead outside authority” in their workplaces. Neo-Marxist CP has infiltrated all areas of UK life especially in public services such as the police, judiciary, government
    (Civil Service), local councils, academia and the National Health Service. CP has an extreme leftist agenda infused with political correctness. The mysterious aspects of modern life and events in Britain become clear with an understanding of the CP agenda.
    I care not a jot that Cressida Dick is an admitted lesbian but her association with CP concerns me greatly. She cannot faithfully serve the British public while being entwined with fifth column CP.
    https://www.cpexposed.com/about-common-purpose
    https://www.cpexposed.com/latest-news/senior-policewoman-and-common-purpose-graduate-cressida-dick-promoted-again
    https://www.cpexposed.com/county/surrey
    https://www.cpexposed.com/documents/cp-surrey-police-stops-common-purpose-training

    • IanB says

      Nov 15, 2017 at 10:31 am

      The last sentence in my comment obviously also applies, but more worryingly, to Mark Rowley.

  23. Angemon says

    Nov 15, 2017 at 11:59 am

    Britain’s top counter terrorism officers have urged the media to rein back on coverage about Islamic State and terrorist attacks

    Huh, what coverage?

FacebookYoutubeTwitterLog in

Subscribe to the Jihad Watch Daily Digest

You will receive a daily mailing containing links to the stories posted at Jihad Watch in the last 24 hours.
Enter your email address to subscribe.

Please wait...

Thank you for signing up!
If you are forwarding to a friend, please remove the unsubscribe buttons first, as they my accidentally click it.

Subscribe to all Jihad Watch posts

You will receive immediate notification.
Enter your email address to subscribe.
Note: This may be up to 15 emails a day.

Donate to JihadWatch
FrontPage Mag

Search Site

Translate

The Team

Robert Spencer in FrontPageMag
Robert Spencer in PJ Media

Articles at Jihad Watch by
Robert Spencer
Hugh Fitzgerald
Christine Douglass-Williams
Andrew Harrod
Jamie Glazov
Daniel Greenfield

Contact Us

Terror Attacks Since 9/11

Archives

  • 2020
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2019
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2018
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2017
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2016
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2015
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2014
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2013
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2012
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2011
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2010
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2009
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2008
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2007
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2006
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2005
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2004
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2003
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • March

All Categories

You Might Like

Learn more about RevenueStripe...

Recent Comments

  • janicevanguilder on New study reveals that Muslim religiosity strongly linked to hatred towards the West
  • Boycott Turkey on Greece, Cyprus, Egypt, France and UAE conduct joint military exercises amid rising Turkish threat
  • Yogi on EU Parliament members call for firing of border agency director for preventing illegal migrants from entering Europe
  • Hoi Polloi on Why so many Muslims can’t wait for Biden to get inaugurated
  • Hoi Polloi on EU Parliament members call for firing of border agency director for preventing illegal migrants from entering Europe

Popular Categories

dhimmitude Sharia Jihad in the U.S ISIS / Islamic State / ISIL Iran Free Speech

Robert Spencer FaceBook Page

Robert Spencer Twitter

Robert Spencer twitter

Robert Spencer YouTube Channel

Books by Robert Spencer

Jihad Watch® is a registered trademark of Robert Spencer in the United States and/or other countries - Site Developed and Managed by Free Speech Defense

Content copyright Jihad Watch, Jihad Watch claims no credit for any images posted on this site unless otherwise noted. Images on this blog are copyright to their respective owners. If there is an image appearing on this blog that belongs to you and you do not wish for it appear on this site, please E-mail with a link to said image and it will be promptly removed.

Our mailing address is: David Horowitz Freedom Center, P.O. Box 55089, Sherman Oaks, CA 91499-1964

loading Cancel
Post was not sent - check your email addresses!
Email check failed, please try again
Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.