http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/01/...-fox-news-clowns-for-comparing-paris-to-iraq/French show eviscerates ‘credibility of Fox News clowns’ for comparing Paris to Iraq
The French television show Le Petit Journal this week took on Fox & Friends after the show claimed that Paris was like Iraq and Afghanistan because Islamic radicals had taken over parts of the city.
In an interview with Fox News host Elisabeth Hasselbeck over the weekend, journalist Nolan Peterson had claimed that there were “741 no-go zones throughout France, and they’re located in these ghettos that have formed around the major cities.”
“There are basically neighborhoods where French Muslims have coalesced because they can’t find housing or economic opportunity within the major French cities,” he opined. “It was pretty scary. I’ve been to Afghanistan and Iraq and Kashmir, India, and at times, it felt like that, those places in these no-go zones.”
“We didn’t allow Afghanistan to exist as a no-go zone of Islamist recruitment after 9/11, and that’s essentially what the French are letting happen in their own country,” Peterson insisted.
But Snopes investigated the so-called “no-go zones” and found them to be a myth caused by an incorrect translation describing areas that were “targeted for urban renewal initiatives.”
So, the Le Petit Journal live audience in Paris couldn’t help but laugh when the host played the Fox News clip.
The host said that “our doubts about the truthfulness of the words of this specialist appeared when Barbie and Ken, the specialist on France, used the opinion poll” showing that 16 percent of French citizens supported ISIS, adding that the poll had been debunked by The Washington Post.
“The credibility of the Fox News clowns disappeared when they show a map of Paris with some ‘no-go zones’,” the host continued.
Gasps and laughter could be heard in the audience as the clip showed the areas of Paris that Fox News had determined were “no-go zones.”
“It seems some here know Paris,” the host observed.
Just as Fox has often sent Jesse Watters and John Stossel out on the streets of New York to mock liberals, Le Petit Journal sent a team of reporters to the “no-go zones” to lampoon Fox News.
The team traveled from Quartier Belleville to Quartier Marenta to Quartier Barbès to Quartier La Chapelle. Some Parisians were confused about why anyone would think Paris was like Iraq and Afghanistan. Others found the idea to be insulting.
“Your question is stupid,” one woman told the reporters.
Watch the video below from Le Petit Journal via LiveLeak.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=28b_1421201170
Meanwhile, in America :
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jan/14/father-son-turned-away-from-muslim-free-gun-range-/Father, son turned away from ‘Muslim-free’ gun range in Arkansas
A father and son of South Asian descent say they were turned away from an Arkansas gun range because it’s declared by its owners as a “Muslim-free” zone.
The father and son, who are not Muslim but have brown skin, said they were questioned about their religion and background while filling out paperwork at the Gun Cave Indoor Firing Range in Hot Springs, Raw Story reported.
The Gun Cave first made national headlines in September when proprietor Jan Morgan announced on social media that she was banning Muslims from her establishment out of fear for the safety of her patrons.
“In the range, people are shooting guns in close proximity to each other, so my patrons depend on me and my discretion regarding who I allow to shoot beside them,” she wrote at the time. “One mistake in judgment on my part could cost innocent people their lives.
“Since I have no way of discerning which Muslims will or will not kill in the name of their religion and the commands in their [Koran], I choose to err on the side of caution for the safety of my patrons,” Ms. Morgan said.
The father and son pair, who did not want to be named, told the Arkansas Times that they were in the process of filling out paperwork at the range over the weekend when the woman, presumably Ms. Morgan, suddenly told them to leave.
“Then, all of a sudden, I don’t know what went wrong, but she stopped us from filling out the paperwork and said, ‘I don’t think you guys should be here,’” the son said. “She told us to leave or she’d call the cops on us.”
The men decided to leave to avoid trouble, he said.
“We’re brown — I don’t know if she assumed we were Muslim,” the son told the Times. “When she first asked us, she said, ‘I would hope if you were Muslim you guys wouldn’t be cowards and would be up front about it.’”
The Gun Cave responded to the accusations on its Facebook page, calling it “pretty ridiculous stuff.”
“We don’t discriminate against people based on their skin color,” it wrote. “We have a number of people with all colors of skin who shoot here, including Indian / Hindu religion folks who have joined our membership and some of them actually have sought out my services for private training, which I provided.
“We do however, refuse to allow people to shoot here who display behavior that is irrational or might indicate they are under the influence of alcohol or mind altering drugs,” the post said, without elaborating further. “We are dealing in lethal weapons here. I turn anyone away that I feel presents a safety and security risk to other patrons.”
The Gun Cave then posted photos of some of their Hindu members and said that business is booming precisely because of their selective membership. Ms. Morgan posted a similar message on her own Facebook page.
