No ‘Crisis in Islam’: Just Apathy of So-called ‘Historians’ | Ramzy Baroud
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust
July 7, 2015
On the BBC This Week" program, historian Tom Holland labored to counter the argument that the so-called Islamic State should not be labeled as such: The Islamic State.
Hollands logic in the program seemed more philosophical, concerned with dialectic and logic of language, and hardly situated in any proper historical context.
His comments were in response to British Prime Minister David Camerons objection to the BBCs use of the phrase "Islamic State." Cameron prefers ISIL -- which, itself, stands for the "Islamic State in the Levant" or the cynical qualifier "so-called" to be placed before the phrase.
Although Holland asserts that Camerons protestation to the use of the phrase "Islamic State" is essentially principled, he does not agree with the Prime Minister. By denying "IS" the right to use the phrase, according to Holland, Cameron is replicating the "IS" strategy of denying any Islamic credentials to their Muslim opponents, describing them as "heretics." Cameron is playing the same game as "IS," according to Holland.
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