The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has apologized after journalist Stacey Dooley referred to an Islamic gesture as an “IS salute” on a documentary and deleted the scene in question.
"We apologise for this error and have removed this description from the footage," a BBC spokesman said.
In the Stacey Meets the IS Brides episode, the documentary presenter visited camps in northern Syria to interview women who left their countries to join the Daesh terror organization.
In the offensive scene on her new Panorama show, Dooley uses the term “Isis salute” in a scripted voice-over to describe women raising their fingers in the air.
However, the raised index finger is commonly used in Muslim prayer as a symbol of “Tawhid,” referring to the belief in the oneness of Allah (God).
After an initial clip was uploaded to the BBC website, it drew the ire of hundreds of citizens on social media platforms for the “mischaracterisation” of the gesture.
Many of the users said that she should have done her research before visiting the camps.
