British PM Cameron called on BBC not to use the phrase 'Islamic State'

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Tuesday 30 Jun 2015 - 13:20 Makkah mean time-13-9-1436 (Image from newsx) London, (IINA) - British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday called on the BBC not to use the phrase 'Islamic State' when referring to the terror group operating in Iraq and Syria, according to media reports. The premier who calls the group 'ISIL'  said Muslims would recoil at the phrase being used to justify the "perversion of a great religion". During his interview on BBC Radio 4‘s Today programme Cameron only referred to the group as ‘ISIL’. He criticized BBC Presenter John Humphrys for referring to the group as Islamic State. “I wish the BBC would stop calling it Islamic State because it’s not an Islamic State; what it is an appalling, barbarous regime,” Cameron said. “It is a perversion of the religion of Islam and many Muslims listening to this programme will recoil every time they hear the words ‘Islamic State’.” In the Commons on Monday, Scottish National Party (SNP) Westminster leader Angus Robertson backed the call for politicians and the media to stop using ‘Islamic State’, and said ‘Daesh’ should be used instead. He urged the prime minister join MPs across all parties, US Secretary of State John Kerry and the French foreign minister Laurent Fabius in ‘using the appropriate term’. Robertson added, “The time has come in the English speaking world, to stop using Islamic State, ISIS or ISIL, and instead we and our media should use Daesh as the commonly-used phrase across the Middle East.” The British premier repeated his criticism of the BBC for referring to the group as Islamic State: “I think this is particularly offensive to many Muslims who see, as I see, not state but a barbaric regime of terrorism and oppression that takes delight in murder and oppressing women and murdering people because they are gay.” “I personally think that using the term ISIL or ‘so-called’ would be better than what they currently do. SM/IINA