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    Fox 'Terrorism Expert' Completely Makes Up Fake Story

    by DAVID BADASH
    January 11, 2015 8:23 PM


    #FoxNewsFacts Trends Worldwide After Fox 'Expert' Completely Makes Up Fake Story

    Fox News is now officially the laughing stock of the entire world – at least on Twitter.

    It was bound to happen. For years, Fox News has been presenting false "facts" to such an extreme degree that studies find Fox News viewers are less informed than people who watch no news at all.
    And now, Fox News has been caught – red-handed.

    Terrorism "expert" Steve Emerson on Fox News this week spread the false claim that the city of Birmingham, England – that country's second most-populous – is made up entirely of Muslims.


    "In Britain, it's not just no-go zones, there are actual cities like Birmingham that are totally Muslim where non-Muslims just simply don't go in," Emerson, who claims to be a terrorism expert, wrongly told former judge and failed Republican politician turned Fox News host "Judge" Jeanine Pirro.

    "Parts of London," Emerson continued, "there are actually Muslim religious police that actually beat and actually wound seriously anyone who doesn't dress according to Muslim, religious Muslim attire."


    And un-satisfied with ending the spinning of his tall tale there, Emerson added that Birmingham is "where sharia courts were set up, where Muslim density is very intense, where the police don't go in, and where it's basically a separate country almost, a country within a country."


    The claim was so outrageous that Twitter jumped on it, exploding with the hashtag #FoxNewsFacts in mockery. It has been trending worldwide for hours.


    Jeanine Pirro, rather than question her "expert," who has appeared on her show before, agreed, telling him, and her audience, "You know what it sounds like to me, Steve? It sounds like a caliphate within a particular country."


    But what's not being reported elsewhere is that Emerson spread a similar "no go zones" claim earlier this past week on Fox News, telling Sean Hannity, "I think Europe is finished."


    This mockery of facts follows in the footsteps of Rupert Murdoch – the founder and Executive Chairman of News Corp, the international parent company of Fox News – tweeting an ugly attack on the Muslim community this week. Murdoch was attacked, not only for his comment, but for spelling Muslim, "Moslem," a decades-old spelling that is antiquated and derogatory.


    Fox News also came under attack this past week, when host Shannon Bream blurted out an ugly, racist commentary in a discussion about the Islamic extremist terrorists who slaughtered 17 people in France.


    "That's my question about these guys because if we know they were speaking unaccented French and they had, you know, ski masks on, do we even know what color they were?," Bream asked. "What the tone of their skin was," she tried to clarify – as if that were less racist.

    "I mean what if they didn't look like typical bad guys?"


    And that followed a pre-New Year's eve social media nightmare Fox News brought upon itself, asking viewers to use the hashtag #OverIt2014, to tweet what they are "over" in 2014. Viewers took to Twitter, mocking Fox News, often claiming what they are most over in fact, is Fox News.


    Understandably, Twitter once again had a great time mocking Fox News:


    Emerson did apologize later, saying he would take out a newspaper ad and donate to a local Birmingham charity.


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    Emerson, who is the Executive Director of The Investigative Project on Terrorism, subsequently issued an apology, telling the Huffington Post:

    "I have clearly made a terrible error for which I am deeply sorry. My comments about Birmingham were totally in error. And I am issuing an apology and correction on my website immediately for having made this comment about the beautiful city of Birmingham. I do not intend to justify or mitigate my mistake by stating that I had relied on other sources because I should have been much more careful. There was no excuse for making this mistake and I owe an apology to every resident of Birmingham. I am not going to make any excuses. I made an inexcusable error. And I am obligated to openly acknowledge that mistake.
    "Steve
    "PS. I intend to make a donation to Birmingham Children's Hospital"

    Despite the apology, Emerson still insisted London was patrolled by "Muslim vigilantes".

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    Comments on Fox News about Birmingham, England

    In January 2015, following terrorist attacks in Paris, France, Emerson caused controversy when he commented, in an interview on Fox News,[67][68] that the city of Birmingham was entirely Muslim, and was a "no go area" for non-Muslims.

    However Birmingham, a city of over 1,000,000 people in the UK, has an identifying Muslim population of 22%, with a Christian population of 46%, and 25% claiming no religion or not giving a religion, based on official UK Census figures from 2011.[69] In the same interview, he claimed that in London, "Muslim religious police" beat "anyone who doesn't dress according to Muslim, religious Muslim attire".[70] Shortly after his statement, #foxnewsfacts became trending in Twitter with people mocking the statement.


    In response to these comments, British Prime Minister David Cameron said that he "choked on his porridge" when he heard them and observed that Emerson was "clearly a complete idiot".[71][56] Local MP Gisela Stuart described Emerson's remarks as "stupid" and that they had "no redeeming features".[72]


    Emerson issued an apology for his misinformation stating, "I have clearly made a terrible error for which I am deeply sorry. My comments about Birmingham were totally in error." He further added that he would make a donation to a charity in Birmingham and also place a newspaper ad in Birmingham.[73]

    It was also reported that Birmingham City Council welcomed his apology, describing Emerson's comments as "curious" and clearly without foundation.

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    Debunking the Myth of Muslim-Only Zones in Major European Cities


    By Carol Matlack January 14, 2015


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    Entire neighborhoods of Paris, London, and other European cities have become Muslim-run "no-go zones," off-limits to law enforcement and governed by Islamic sharia law. The story, making the rounds since last week's Paris terror attacks, is shocking—and demonstrably untrue. Yet it continues to spread.

    Steve Emerson, a U.S. television commentator, set off a firestorm in Britain on Jan. 11 when he told Fox News that "non-Muslims just simply don't go in" to the British city of Birmingham, and that in some parts of London, "religious police" beat people who don't wear "religious Muslim attire."

    Prime Minister David Cameron called Emerson "a complete idiot," and Emerson quickly backtracked, admitting he had made "an inexcusable error." British social media had a field day, with Twitter posts showing "sharia-compliant" cloth-covered jars of homemade jam and photoshopped images of mosques dominating the Birmingham skyline.


    The story didn't die there. Nigel Farage, head of Britain's anti-immigrant U.K. Independence Party, asserted on Jan. 13 that there were no-go zones "right across Europe. We have got no-go zones across most of the big French cities," he told Fox News. Another Fox commentator, Nolan Peterson, has been posting online reports this week saying that some 750 areas in France have been "marked as off-limits by French authorities, restricting access by police and other emergency services."


    While the British were outraged, the French simply seem amused. Paris social-media wags have already posted a guide to "eating and drinking in the no-go zones," which happen to include some of the city's trendy gentrifying neighborhoods.


    In fact, France does maintain a list of 750 "sensitive" neighborhoods. Far from being considered "off limits" to authorities, they've been designated as priority areas for urban renewal and other forms of state aid.


    "That's pretty funny," says Hait Abbas, a non-practicing Muslim who runs a wine shop in a Paris neighborhood among those identified by Peterson as a no-go zone. Far from being Muslim-dominated, the neighborhood near the Gare du Nord train station bustles with Italian delis, African hair-braiding shops, and Chinese massage parlors. If it's governed by Islamic law, Abbas says, "I guess I better cut my hand off."


    Where did the story of the no-go zones come from? Daniel Pipes, a U.S. historian and political commentator, says he believes he was the first person to refer to disadvantaged French neighborhoods as no-go zones. In a 2006 article, he said the existence of the zones suggested "that the French state no longer has full control over its territory."


    Pipes now says he was mistaken. In 2013, after traveling to several listed Paris neighborhoods and mainly immigrant and Muslim areas of five other European cities, he wrote: "For a visiting American, these areas are very mild, even dull. We who know the Bronx and Detroit expect urban hell in Europe, too, but there things look fine … hardly beautiful, but buildings are intact, greenery abounds, and order prevails. … Having this first-hand experience, I regret having called these areas no-go zones," he wrote.


    In an e-mail to Bloomberg Businessweek today, Pipes says that a no-go zone "is a place where the government has lost control and cannot enforce the rule of law." There are, he now says, "no European countries with no-go zones."


    Meanwhile, though, the idea of European no-go zones took root. After riots broke out in some French suburbs in 2012, analyst Soeren Kern of the Gatestone Institute, a New York-based think tank, wrote that France was trying to "reclaim no-go zones," including the areas that had been listed in Pipes's 2006 report. Kern defined them as "Muslim-dominated neighborhoods that are largely off-limits to non-Muslims." In other reports, Kern has written that Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Sweden also have no-go zones.


    Fox news commentator Peterson, a freelance writer and U.S. Air Force veteran, didn't respond to messages sent via his website and Twitter feed. But according to his website, he studied in Paris from 2004 to 2006 after graduating from the Air Force Academy. In a Jan. 10 Fox News interview, Peterson said he visited some areas around Paris that were "pretty scary.

    I've been to Afghanistan, Iraq, Kashmir, India, and at times it felt like … those places. You see young men wearing Osama bin Laden T-shirts."


    As with many urban legends, there are grains of truth in this one. Many French Muslims live in tough, isolated neighborhoods and have faced discrimination in housing and employment. Sometimes, police are afraid to respond to calls from dangerous neighborhoods in France and elsewhere. A few years ago, an Islamist group in Britain demanded that the government establish autonomous sharia-governed zones in some cities. The government swiftly outlawed the group, and it hasn't been heard from since.


    The next stop for the no-go legend could be the U.S. "This is actually a strategy that is slowly being implemented worldwide by radical Islam," Harry Houck, identified as a private investigator and retired New York City police detective, told conservative news website Newsmax on Tuesday.

    http://www.businessweek.com/articles...nogo-zone-myth

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    Paris mayor: We intend to sue Fox News

    By Gregory Wallace and Brian Stelter @CNNMoney January 20, 2015: 4:56 PM ET

    Mayor says Paris will sue FOX News

    NEW YORK (CNNMoney)

    Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo told CNN Tuesday she intends to sue Fox News in the wake of the channel's coverage of supposed "no-go zones" for non-Muslims.


    Hidalgo said the channel had "insulted" her city.

    "When we're insulted, and when we've had an image, then I think we'll have to sue, I think we'll have to go to court, in order to have these words removed," Hidalgo told CNN's Christiane Amanpour.

    "The image of Paris has been prejudiced, and the honor of Paris has been prejudiced."


    Outside legal analysts largely dismissed the likelihood that a lawsuit would succeed.


    A few hours after Hidalgo spoke with Amanpour, a Fox News executive called the warning about a lawsuit "misplaced."


    "We empathize with the citizens of France as they go through a healing process and return to everyday life," Fox executive vice president Michael Clemente told CNNMoney in a statement.

    "However, we find the mayor's comments regarding a lawsuit misplaced."


    Hidalgo's comments about a lawsuit came after a series of Fox segments suggested there are parts of Paris and other European cities where Islamic law is practiced and where police are fearful to work.

    The "no-go" zone segments were widely mocked and challenged as inaccurate, particularly by French media outlets.


    Some critics have accused the network of using the controversial "no-go zones" idea to perpetuate a fearful narrative about Muslims, particularly in the days since terror attacks in Paris.


    One Fox show, for example, displayed an inaccurate map of the alleged "no-go zones" in and around Paris. On another show, a guest who was identified as a security expert claimed that Birmingham, England is a "totally Muslim city where non-Muslims don't go in."


    Among those who ridiculed the Fox News claims was British Prime Minister David Cameron, who said of the Birmingham claim: "When I heard this, frankly, I choked on my porridge and I thought it must be April Fools Day."


    Fox News anchors issued several apologies
    on Saturday for the segments.


    With regards to Paris, "some of the neighborhoods were highlighted incorrectly," host Anna Kooiman said.


    At another point, Julie Banderas issued a blanket apology to "the people of France and England."


    Citing the apologies and the embarrassment suffered by Fox, CNN senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin said "the system has worked" and "the courts don't need to get involved here."


    Other media law experts said that in the U.S., where Fox is based, a lawsuit for defamation filed by a city would likely be tossed out right away.


    "A claim like this would never succeed in a United States court because there's no such thing as defamation" of a municipality, said Jeff Hermes of the Media Law Resource Center. (MLRC is nonprofit organization of media outlets; Fox News is a member.)


    It's a precedent that was established nearly 100 years ago, when the city of Chicago sued the Chicago Tribune over a series of critical editorials. The Illinois Supreme Court ruled citizens had nearly free range to criticize their government.


    So in this case, Paris would be left to pursue a suit in a French court. That's also problematic: Fox News has limited presence there, leaving the justice system with limited leverage over the company.


    Also, U.S. law gives media outlets special protections against the decisions of foreign courts.

    A 2010 law called the SPEECH Act "was designed to protect American publishers from defamation lawsuits overseas," said Anthony Fargo, a professor and director of the Center for International Media Law and Policy Studies at Indiana University.

    He, too, thinks it unlikely a U.S. court would hear the case.

    CNN, the owner of this web site, was once sued by a small town in Brazil, but CNN won the case on appeal.

    http://money.cnn.com/2015/01/20/medi...ews/index.html

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