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Fox News commentator ridiculed for "Muslim Birmingham" TV comments
Topic Started: Jan 13 2015, 05:13 AM (84 Views)
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A vitriolic firestorm was hurled at a Fox News commentator who claimed that one UK community had been completely assimilated by Islamic immigrants, even to the point of dropping the word "ham" from the town's name simply because it was not halal. It earned him a landslide of mockery from Twitter users who said things like "Cardiff is now the Diff".

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Apology for 'Muslim Birmingham' Fox News claim

An American terrorism commentator has apologised for describing Birmingham as a "Muslim-only city" where non-Muslims "don't go" during a Fox News interview.

Steven Emerson told the channel that in London "Muslim religious police" beat "anyone who doesn't dress according to Muslim, religious Muslim attire".

He later issued an apology for his "terrible error".

His comments have come in for ridicule, with the hashtag #FoxNewsFacts trending on Twitter.

Mr Emerson, who founded a group called The Investigative Project on Terrorism, was giving his perspective on the terror attacks in France to Fox presenter Jeanine Pirro.

'Check your facts'
Birmingham City Council said Mr Emerson's "curious" comments had no foundation, and welcomed his apology, while Birmingham Edgbaston MP Gisela Stuart described the remarks as "brilliant".

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Speaking on Radio 4's PM programme, Mr Emerson said: "I don't want people to use this to claim there's no such thing as radical Islam."

He said he "absolutely" stood by comments about "vigilante Muslim groups" in some parts of London.

Mr Emerson said he had been "living under a death threat" since an assassination attempt in the mid 1990s.


In terms of Birmingham, however, he admitted that he had "made an egregious error here in not doing my homework", adding: "I deserve what I got."

He said he had relied on sources he had used in the past, but accepted "responsibility" for his comments and did not know how his reputation would be affected in the long term.

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