{"id":3406,"date":"2015-01-12T18:56:08","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T18:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=3406"},"modified":"2015-01-12T18:56:08","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T18:56:08","slug":"fox-news-mocked-after-guest-says-birmingham-is-totally-muslim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/fox-news-mocked-after-guest-says-birmingham-is-totally-muslim\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox News mocked after guest says Birmingham is \u2018totally Muslim\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Fox-News.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3407\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Fox-News.jpg\" alt=\"Fox News\" width=\"296\" height=\"221\" \/><\/a>A self-proclaimed terrorism expert who told Fox News that Birmingham was a \u201ctotally Muslim\u201d city where \u201cnon-Muslims just simply don\u2019t go\u201d has been forced to apologise.<br \/>\nThe comments sparked a tidal wave of online mockery using the Twitter hashtag #foxnewsfacts, which was still trending on Monday morning.<br \/>\nSteven Emerson said: \u201cAnd in Britain it\u2019s not just no-go zones there are actual cities like Birmingham that are totally Muslim where non-Muslims simply don\u2019t go in.<br \/>\n\u201cIn parts of London there are actually Muslim religious police that actually beat and actually wound seriously anyone who doesn\u2019t dress according to religious Muslim attire.\u201d<br \/>\nEmerson has now issued an apology for his \u201cterrible error\u201d and offered to make a donation to Birmingham Children\u2019s Hospital.<br \/>\nHe founded a group called The Investigative Project on Terrorism and has been called to testify to at least one Congressional committee.<br \/>\n\u201cI have clearly made a terrible error for which I am deeply sorry. My comments about Birmingham were totally in error.\u201d<br \/>\nHe said he would be issuing an apology on his website for \u201cthis comment about the beautiful city of Birmingham\u201d.<br \/>\n\u201cI 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,\u201d he added.<br \/>\n\u201cThere was no excuse for making this mistake and I owe an apology to every resident of Birmingham.\u201d<br \/>\nMeanwhile, Jeanine Pirro, the host of the Judge Pirro show, replied: \u201cYou know what it sounds like to me, Steve? It sounds like a caliphate within a particular country.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/fox-news-mocked-after-guest-says-birmingham-is-totally-muslim\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A self-proclaimed terrorism expert who told Fox News that Birmingham was a \u201ctotally Muslim\u201d city where \u201cnon-Muslims just simply don\u2019t go\u201d has been forced to apologise. The comments sparked a tidal wave of online mockery using the Twitter hashtag #foxnewsfacts, which was still trending on Monday morning. Steven Emerson said: \u201cAnd in Britain it\u2019s not &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,9],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3406"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3408,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3406\/revisions\/3408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}