BBC scraps ban on depicting Prophet Mohammed
Guidelines forbidding portrayals of the Prophet had already been quietly abandoned as 'out of date' before the Paris terror atrocities, corporation insists
by John Bingham
Telegraph
January 12, 2015
https://www.meforum.org/islamist-watch/45007/bbc-scraps-ban-on-depicting-prophet-mohammed
Excerpt:
The BBC had quietly lifted its own ban on any depiction of the Prophet Mohammed before the Paris terrorist atrocities, the corporation has disclosed.
Official guidelines previously published online said that the Prophet revered by Muslims "must not be represented in any shape or form" in BBC output.
Those rules were read out on air by David Dimbleby, the Question Time presenter, on Thursday last week.
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