Totally anything? How prejudice spreads

Birmingham Central Mosque  (JimmyGuano)

There’s a firestorm of protest (and well there should be) concerning a recent pronouncement by Fox News commentator Steven Emerson.

Emerson declared that Birmingham, UK is a “totally Muslim” city, and that “non-Muslims "just simply don’t go” there.

Whether any place on this planet was ever 100 percent anything is highly doubtful.  Certainly, a modern metropolis within a highly diverse nation would not qualify for such a narrow (minded) description.

Alex Ritman of The Hollywood Reporter states that the 1.1 million population of Birmingham, UK is actually “approximately 80 percent… non-Muslim.”

After being publicly criticized for his false reporting, Emerson apologized and offered to make amends.  Admitting that he “should have been much more careful” in his fact-checking, Emerson then said that he would be “making a donation” to Birmingham’s children’s hospital.

And how about one to a Birmingham mosque?

  

Resources

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/fox-news-pundit-apologizes-after-calling-uks-birmingham-totally-muslim/ar-AA84ANF

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