While it may be hard to believe, Fox News actually spent part of last Saturday evening apologizing for lying about Muslims on air. The apology came in response to the statements from a Fox News guest about the city of Birmingham in the United Kingdom.
The guest, self-proclaimed terrorism ‘expert’ Steve Emerson, claimed the UK and several other European countries have cities that are 100 percent Muslim and, as such, are rarely entered by anyone who isn’t. He went one step further and said some of these cities had “no-go zones” where no non-Muslim dared to venture. The city of Birmingham and the French capital of Paris were named as two of them.
Outrage from Europeans quickly spread, with the mayor of Paris now saying the city will sue Fox News, and the Birmingham City Council calling Emerson crazy. On Saturday evening, Fox News host Jeanine Pirro went on air and apologized to Birmingham for the “lies”, adding only 20 percent of Birmingham’s inhabitants are Muslim and that ‘no-go zones’ did not exist.
Sadly, however, this apology barely lasted hours before Fox News had another self-proclaimed terrorism ‘expert’ on air repeating the same lies. This time it was Wayne Simmon who continued to talk about the so-called ‘no-go zones’ supposedly being controlled by European Muslims. Simmons also again brought up the claim Fox News has used over the years that there are almost two dozen paramilitary organizations in the US run by Muslims, and training other Muslims to perpetrate terrorist attacks against America.
These claims have never been proven to be true, with even US authorities saying they are nothing more than fabrication.