During the BBC news bulletin at 0700 on December 7, 2004, “Islamic” was added every time the word “militant” was used in the story on the attack on the U.S. consulate in Jeddah. There could be some justification – if at all – if Saudi Arabia was a non-Muslim country. With the entire country being a Muslim, why should it be necessary to describe the militants as “Islamic?”
The adjective is not confined to militants in Saudi Arabia. Every time a Muslim is involved in militancy, BBC describes him as “Islamic.”
On the other hand, BBC never ever says “Catholic IRA terrorists” when it would have been perfectly justified because the Catholic minority in Northern Ireland is fighting against the Protestant majority.
The only explanation for the outrageous usage of the BBC editors is that they want to create hatred against the Muslims.
