What do we call the organisation known as ISIL, or the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant? The BBC calls it the ‘so-called Islamic State’, or ‘IS,’ which upsets Islamic clerics, who insist that this barbaric rabble should not be allowed to use the name of the caliphate, a longed for Islamic heaven on earth, where justice, faith and wisdom would prevail. In fact they say, Islamic State neither adheres to Islam nor controls a real state. 120 MPs, including Boris Johnson, have written to the BBC, asking the corporation to call it Da’esh – an acronym for the Arabic translation of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, used widely across the region. Lord Hall, Director-General of the BBC has refused, on the grounds that it might be unfair to the jihadists. Describing Da’esh as a "pejorative name coined in Arabic by its enemies,” including supporters of Syrian president Bashar Assad, Lord Hall continued: "Unfortunately this term may give the impression of support for those who coined it and that would not preserve the BBC's impartiality.”