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Islamic State or Daesh?
David Jordan, the Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµâ€™s director of Editorial Policy explains why the organisation is refusing to use the term daesh despite the UK Prime Minister’s calls for it to do so.
We return to an issue that has emerged as one of the hottest topics - how the Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ refers to the terrorist group based in Syria and Iraq. David Jordan, the Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµâ€™s director of Editorial Policy, joins Rajan Datar to explain why the organisation is refusing to use the term daesh. Listener, Ziad al-Thawati from Bahrain explains why she disagrees with the Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ's stance
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