{"id":16534,"date":"2015-01-13T11:38:08","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T10:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=16534"},"modified":"2015-01-13T11:38:08","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T10:38:08","slug":"let-me-assure-my-american-readers-i-have-no-problem-at-all-visiting-birmingham-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=16534","title":{"rendered":"Let me assure my American readers: I have no problem at all visiting Birmingham (UK)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cThere are actual cities like Birmingham that are totally Muslim where non-Muslims just simply don\u2019t go in,\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This was the absurd comment made at the weekend on Fox News by the so-called terrorism expert\u00a0Steve Emerson who amazingly has advised all sorts of Congressional committees.<\/p>\n<p>Birmingham is not totally Muslim; some 22% identify themselves as Muslim. Birmingham has a good record of community relations and no British person fears to go there.<\/p>\n<p>I am not Muslim but I shall be visiting the city twice this month: once to speak at a conference on the water sector and then again to meet colleagues at the statutory body which represent water consumers. I am looking forward to the occasions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere are actual cities like Birmingham that are totally Muslim where non-Muslims just simply don\u2019t go in,\u201d This was the absurd comment made at the weekend on Fox News by the so-called terrorism expert\u00a0Steve Emerson who amazingly has advised all sorts of Congressional committees. Birmingham is not totally Muslim; some 22% identify themselves as Muslim. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-current-affairs","category-british-current-affairs","category-consumer-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16534"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16537,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16534\/revisions\/16537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}