In May 2017, whilst the BBC was reporting Trump’s visit to Saudi Arabia, they published definitions of the words ‘Islamist’ and ‘Islamic’. However, the definition of the word ‘Islamist’ used was a non-standard definition, and from one individual from the Washington Institute of Near East Policy, who said the word Islamist is ‘the name of a dystopian ideology which is destructive for everyone, including Muslims’. Miqdaad Versi, from the MCB challenged the BBC on this, who later changed the definition of both words.
