Birmingham laughs off Fox News commentator’s caliphate claim

Guardian UK ^ | January 12, 2015 | by Robert Booth

[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.”

[dfwgator]

Taqqiya.

[Jewbacca]

OK, for a test, let’s put a yarmulke on a couple of bearded guys, some black suits, and follow them with a video camera.

[Crim]

LMAO....and then there is stuff like this:

(FYI The Brits use “Asian” in place of “Muslim”)

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/aug/10/uk-riots-birmingham-asians-killed-car

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Birmingham_riots

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-18349992

And this BS is spreading throughout the UK and the EU:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharia_patrols

So No I guess it isn’t “totally” muslim yet.....just
“muslim enough” to give them the numbers and the balls to try and rule it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Trojan_Horse

[VerySadAmerican]

I didn’t read the entire article. Does it mention any Christian or Jewish owned businesses?

[manc]

HA, I have been to Birmingham and Coventry many many times growing up over there and trust me there are mnahy areas which are no go. Glodwick in Oldham, Mannigham in Braford, most of Birmingham, Coventry, parts of East End London, Leeds, Preston, Burnley, Cheetem Hill in Manchester.

Many can bury their pathetic ignorant heads to what is going on but the facts are fats and I dare any white elitist liberal to walk down those areas by themselves and especially women.

[dangus]

That Birmingham is entirely Muslim is laughable. However, there are wards within Birmingham that are almost exclusively Muslim:

“According to the 2011 Census, 90% of residents in Lozells and East Handsworth, Sparkbrook, Aston and Washwood Heath wards said that they were from an ethnic group other than white British.”

[manc]

So Pakis’ are Pakistani’s but for some reason that abbreviation is deemed racist and yet it is alright to say Krauts, Aussies, Frogs, Aussies, Paddies, Jocks, and Turks.

It’s all PC and I still call them Pakis and bring this up when anyone there states it is racist.

[Travis McGee]

The Telegraph is a lefty agitprop rag.
They don’t even take ANY comments, a dead give-away that it’s sheer lies and propaganda for morons.

[Flycatcher]

OK, so he jumped the gun by 40 years.

Does anyone really think it won't be fully Muslim by then?

[Gene Eric]

The Muslim capitalist is confused and conflicted.

The issue isn’t the individual that is Muslim — the issue is Islam and those that repress, persecute, and kill on its behalf.

Islam is a war plan.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

FROM THE ARTICLE: Three wards in Birmingham’s inner suburbs recorded more than 70% of people identifying as Muslim in the 2011 census – Washwood Heath (77.3%), Bordesley Green (73.9%) and Sparkbrook (70.2%). In Ladywood Road in Sparkbrook, part of the city’s Balti Triangle, there are few non-Asian faces, but also plenty of off-licences stuffed with crates of beer to wash down the curries.

[expat2]

Bullfeathers!
The Telegraph is a major right-of-center newspaper, something the US does not have.

[Steve_Seattle]

"That Birmingham is entirely Muslim is laughable."

Since it's so laughable, I wonder if it was simply a blunder or rather an overstatement, as when someone might say, "Everyone in Seattle is a liberal," to denote the general tone of a place, rather than to state a literal fact. If Birmingham is about 20-22% Muslim (as I've heard claimed), Islam might indeed be beginning to set the general tone of the place, even if 80% of the people aren't Muslim. And if it isn't now, what about in 15-20 years?

[sparklite2]

No, the Telegraph is not a leftist rag. This article is from the Guardian, which is.

[Hoffer Rand]

"Birmingham is one of the stable communities."

This comment gives away that there are known unstable communities. He just doesn't consider Birmingham to be one of them. Otherwise, why phrase the sentence this way? Why not just say, "Birmingham is a stable community"? Answer, because he knows there are unstable communities, and is trying to not admit it.

[ncpatriot]

Someone pls, what are Jocks?

[Steve_Seattle]

"This comment gives away that there are known unstable communities."

Good point.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Sheffield was full of Pakis when I lived there.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Not to mention “Yanks”. ;)