Posted on 01/12/2015 2:21:12 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The train passengers’ calm consumption of crisps and bored checking of emails on the 11.43am to Birmingham suggested they hadn’t heard the news. Their destination, a city of more than a million people, had shockingly become Britain’s first caliphate and a no-go zone for non-Muslims – at least, according to an “expert” on Rupert Murdoch’s US-based Fox News channel.
“There are actual cities like Birmingham that are totally Muslim where non-Muslims just simply don’t go in,” Steve Emerson, a commentator on terrorism, told millions of viewers on Sunday.
Raja Mohammed Ishtiaq, co-owner of the Raja Brothers grocery set up in 1977 by Pakistani immigrants, said Emerson’s comments were embarrassing and insulting. “We are not in cuckoo land,” he said. “There are lots of Muslims here but this is a multicultural society and there are beautiful links between the different religions. How can they say this? Birmingham is one of the stable communities.”
A few doors down, the Lahore restaurant – specialising in cuisine from Pakistan’s Taliban-controlled north-west frontier region – welcomes a mixed crowd. Sitting beneath a picture of the Pakistani cricketer turned politician Imran Khan, a white 31-year-old civil servant who asked not to be named said he came here daily for lunch, and sometimes dinner too.
As he polished off his kebab, his message was simple: “It is not a no-go area and there’s nothing to suggest it is becoming one.”
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Jon Stewart’s going to have fun with this one.
You said Aussie twice. Do you have something against people from Australia?????
(sarc)
If Emerson's right all you need is any ordinary, run-of-the-mill, non-Muslim looking guy to run your test.
Scots.
Maybe Birmingham will look at itself and say OMG we are Muslim controlled , LOL
Jocks = Scots
Taffys= Welsh
Paddies = Irish
Sassenach = English
As in Jacobite?
Quoting from the article…..” Britain’s second biggest city has one of its largest Muslim populations, with 22% of residents identifying as Muslim in the 2011 census…” Now move to a posting here at FR today and in particular, pay attention Post #15 by Responsibility2nd.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3246090/posts\ Let’s just say that if they are at 22%, I’d be betting on all kinds of jihad organizations going on there.
Ugh.
“LMAO....and then there is stuff like this:
(FYI The Brits use “Asian” in place of “Muslim”)”
The Brits, and the EU encouraged unbridled ‘multicultural’ immigration in order to support social programs. More folk, more taxes.
Chickens...roost...
KYPD
The neighborhoods the muslim congregate in are most certainly NOT multi-cultural. You can spend time in those areas and never see a white person. It’s like you are in Bangladesh or Lahore.
Anything to bash Fox. Real journalists would go out and gather some facts to refute the claim, yet all these yahoos can do it throw stones and interview a handful of people.
These guys are aligned with the Sand Nazi’s.
Ban the word “multi-cultural”
Just say “mongrelized”.
What the British call the Scots.
Absolutely. Anyone claiming there isn't an islam problem in the UK is either naive or an outright liar.
OK, so he jumped the gun by 40 years.
Does anyone really think it won't be fully Muslim by then?
Let's start with Robert Booth.
He's the one here who thinks it's all a big joke.
Let him laugh until it hurts.
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