Ah well, two things here.

One is The Daily M*il have pointed out the BBC commissioning editor is a Muslim. Shock, horror!

The other is Bridge reading and quoting from The Daily M*il.

There concludes the case for the prosecution M'lud.

There has to be some arbitrary universal timeline and BC / AD or BCE / CE all point to the same mythical event point. Can't see how changing the wording without changing the date can help any concept of being offensive. Islam runs a dateline consistent with the coming of the Prophet for starters, and whilst I hear of weird idiots calling for a Caliph in The White House, not even those fundamentalists call for Rolex to bring out a new range?

It's a story to sell tomorrow's fish & chip wrappers I suppose. Just rather bemused to see such a self confessed lefty fall for it and give it further publicity.