Fox News has drawn the ire of the U.K. today after an analyst who claims to be a terrorism expert said that Birmingham is a “totally Muslim city.” That has sparked an international Twitter trend called “#FoxNewsFacts.”
Steve Emerson, who Fox News called an “internationally recognized expert on terrorism” claimed that the U.K.’s second-largest city is mostly Muslim. According to The Guardian, Emerson even claimed that the city is a “no-go zone” for non-Muslims.
He added that there are parts of London where Muslim religious police “actually beat and actually wound seriously anyone who doesn't dress according to Muslim, religious Muslim attire.”
According to CNN, Emerson did later apologize for his statement. “My comments on Fox News about Birmingham were totally inaccurate. Birmingham, please accept my apology; I was wrong,” he said.
A Fox News press team Twitter account did surface to try to stop the now-wildly popular #FoxNewsFacts Twitter trend. However, CNN’s Brian Stelter is reporting that this account is face. The account claimed it was launched specifically to fight the #FoxNewsFacts hashtag.
As mentioned in our first tweet we have launched this account to counter all false information being attributed to @FoxNews by #foxnewsfacts
— Fox News Press Team (@FoxNewsPress) January 12, 2015
Here’s some Tweets from the trend:
Women make less than men for the same work, but they also get to make babies and bake cookies, so everything's even. #foxnewsfacts
— Charles Clymer (@cmclymer) January 12, 2015
Gaston wasn't a sexist bully. He was a male activist trying to show that feminazi Belle the error of her ways. #FoxNewsFacts
— OhNoSheTwitnt (@OhNoSheTwitnt) January 12, 2015
#Muslims are controlling the weather in Britain. In some places it's Sunni, but mainly Shi'ite #foxnewsfacts http://t.co/sPHgVwdcHq
— Anton La Guardia (@AntonLaGuardia) January 12, 2015
All post boxes in #Birmingham have been forced to wear red burqas. #foxnewsfacts pic.twitter.com/gUaPMs23ZR
— Matthew Ward (@HistoryNeedsYou) January 12, 2015
image via Twitter from HistoryNeedsYou
Hagrid accepts islam and will now be the new islamic at teacher at Hogwarts #foxnewsfacts pic.twitter.com/Kazv3WZCI2
— #FreePalestine (@faizanr7) January 12, 2015
image via Twitter from faizanr7
image of Rupert Murdoch courtesy of INFphoto.com
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