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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ace_on_the_Turn" data-source="post: 2716509" data-attributes="member: 27417">Semantics?From the article he linked:"On January 11, Emerson said they exist throughout Europe. . . . Theyre places where the governments like France, Britain, Sweden, Germany dont exercise any sovereignty. . . . You basically have zones where sharia courts were set up, where Muslim density is very intense, where the police dont go in, and where its basically a separate country almost, a country within a country. Although Emerson, whom I admire for his moral courage and investigative skills, immediately apologized for his terrible error of saying that cities such as Birmingham, England, are totally Muslim where non-Muslims just simply dont go, he did not address the larger question of whether no-go zones, in fact, do exist throughout Europe and are places where governments dont exercise any sovereignty...After spending time in the banlieues (suburbs) of Paris in January 2013, as well as in their counterparts in Antwerp, Athens, Berlin, Brussels, Copenhagen, the Hague, Malmö, and Stockholm, however, I had second thoughts. I found that those areas are not full-fledged no-go zones meaning places where the government had lost control of territory. No warlords dominate; sharia is not the law of the land. I expressed regret back then for having used the term no-go zones."And what did Steve Emerson have to say:"I have clearly made a terrible error for which I am deeply sorry. My comments about Birmingham were totally in error. And I am issuing this apology and correction for having made this comment about the beautiful city of Birmingham. I do not intend to justify or mitigate my mistake by stating that I had relied on other sources because I should have been much more careful. There was no excuse for making this mistake and I owe an apology to every resident of Birmingham.  I am not going to make any excuses. I made an inexcusable error. And I am obligated to openly acknowledge that mistake.  I wish to apologize for all residents of that great city of Birmingham."Fox News lies. Admits it lied. And yet the Fox News apologist simply will not be honest about it.Yes, there is no doubt the semantics game is being played. And there is no doubt which side it playing it.</blockquote>

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