Independent Press Standards Organization Issue Sharia Guidelines on Islam

By Pamela Geller / THE GELLER REPORT 

The press has a duty to report the facts. That duty is now a crime under a sharia enforcing press corps. This is not exclusive to the UK: The Society of Professional Journalists: Why We Never Get the Straight Story on Islamic Jihad

Why is IPSO issuing guidance on Islam? The press regular should not be telling journalists how to  write about Muslims.

By Tom Wilson, Spiked

The Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), which regulates most of the UK’s national newspapers, announced in late 2018 that it had tasked an informal working group with drafting guidance for reporting on Islam and Muslims. Perhaps more questions should have been raised at the time about why a body like IPSO thought it appropriate to wade in on how journalists should write about matters of religion. A new Policy Exchange report warns of the dangers of the draft guidance. Everyone concerned about the free press should start paying attention.

Read article here: https://gellerreport.com/2019/09/ispo-sharia-reporting-guidelines.html/