Fox News is now officially the laughing stock of the entire worldÂ â€“ at least on Twitter.

It was bound to happen. For years, Fox News has been presenting false “facts” to such an extreme degree that studies find Fox News viewers are less informed than people who watch no news at all.Â

And now, Fox News has been caughtÂ â€“ red-handed.

Terrorism “expert” Steve Emerson on Fox News this week spread the false claim that the city of Birmingham, EnglandÂ â€“ that country’s second most-populousÂ â€“ is made up entirely of Muslims.

“In Britain, it’s not just no-go zones, there are actual cities like Birmingham that are totally Muslim where non-Muslims just simply don’t go in,” Emerson, who claims to be a terrorism expert, wrongly told former judge and failed Republican politician turned Fox News host “Judge” Jeanine Pirro.

“Parts of London,” Emerson continued, “there are actually Muslim religious police that actually beat and actually wound seriously anyone who doesn’t dress according to Muslim, religious Muslim attire.”

And un-satisfied with ending the spinning of his tall tale there, Emerson added thatÂ Birmingham is “where sharia courts were set up, where Muslim density is very intense, where the police don’t go in, and where it’s basically a separate country almost, a country within a country.”

The claim was so outrageous that Twitter jumped on it, exploding with the hashtag #FoxNewsFacts in mockery. It has been trending worldwide for hours.

Jeanine Pirro, rather than question her “expert,” who has appeared on her show before, agreed, telling him, and her audience,Â “You know what it sounds like to me, Steve? It sounds like a caliphate within a particular country.”

But what’s not being reported elsewhere is that Emerson spread a similar “no go zones” claim earlier this past week on Fox News,Â telling Sean Hannity, “I think Europe is finished.”

This mockery of facts follows in the footsteps of Rupert Murdoch â€“Â the founder andÂ Executive Chairman ofÂ News Corp, the international parent company of Fox NewsÂ â€“ tweeting an ugly attack on the Muslim community this week. Murdoch was attacked, not only for his comment, but for spelling Muslim, “Moslem,” a decades-old spelling that is antiquated andÂ derogatory.

Maybe most Moslems peaceful, but until they recognize and destroy their growing jihadist cancer they must be held responsible. â€” Rupert Murdoch (@rupertmurdoch) January 10, 2015

Fox News also came under attack this past week, whenÂ hostÂ Shannon Bream blurted out an ugly, racist commentaryÂ in a discussion about the Islamic extremist terrorists who slaughtered 17 people in France.

“That’s my question about these guys because if we know they were speaking unaccented French and they had, you know, ski masks on, do we even know what color they were?,” Bream asked. “What the tone of their skin was,” she tried to clarify â€“ as if that were less racist.Â “I mean what if they didn’t look like typical bad guys?”

And that followed a pre-New Year’s eve social media nightmare Fox News brought upon itself, asking viewers to use the hashtag #OverIt2014, toÂ tweet what they are “over” in 2014. Viewers took to Twitter, mocking Fox News, often claiming what they are most over in fact, is Fox News.

Understandably, Twitter once again had a great time mocking Fox News:

The original name of the show was MiddleEastEnders. The BBC dropped the “Middle” to conceal its creeping sharia agenda. #foxnewsfacts â€” Dan Murphy (@bungdan) January 11, 2015

In Birmingham, the local death squads go by the name of Quran Quran. #foxnewsfacts pic.twitter.com/xHXFtPUHxZ â€” David Jack (@DamJef) January 11, 2015

One Direction was named to remind people in Birmingham that they may only pray towards Mecca. #FoxNewsFacts â€” LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) January 12, 2015

Birmingham City Mosque is among the tallest and most sacred in all Islam. #FoxNewsFacts pic.twitter.com/4DPUoaz6CV â€” Peter Moore (@petermoore) January 11, 2015

Even buildings wear burkas in Birmingham #FoxNewsFacts pic.twitter.com/LpqzvxxL2q â€” Paul Connolly (@PaulConnolly10) January 11, 2015

The city is now called Birming because Ham is not halal. #foxnewsfacts â€” Kamila Shamsie (@kamilashamsie) January 11, 2015

A little tip for our american friends, its pronounced worst-sharia sauce.. #foxnewsfacts pic.twitter.com/zBbHGrcGb2 â€” Dave/Dim (@dimspace) January 11, 2015

Legislation passed in Islamified Britain forcing the Queen of England to don a traditional headscarf #FoxNewsFacts pic.twitter.com/yT0CTRTpi8 â€” Sarah M (@sazza_jay) January 11, 2015

A quick reminder about on-screen diversity at Fox News #foxnewsfacts pic.twitter.com/XE7tSHw2p9 â€” The Poke (@ThePoke) January 11, 2015

Muslim cats are expected to wear a hijab too #foxnewsfacts pic.twitter.com/EhBXECyoOa â€” Yasmin Gooner (@Yasmin_Gooner) January 12, 2015

British citizens respond to new sharia laws ordering hijabs on tableware, with flair and imagination. #foxnewsfacts pic.twitter.com/2No2vk8IRq â€” Clara Benn (@MsClara) January 11, 2015

You’re only allowed to drive like this if you’re a Muslim woman #foxnewsfacts pic.twitter.com/qroQ5wHuj1 â€” Yasmin Gooner (@Yasmin_Gooner) January 11, 2015

#FoxNewsFacts Birmingham, Alabama is the next Birmingham to get Sharia law. Because Obama. â€” Adam Mordecai (@advodude) January 11, 2015

Emerson did apologize later, saying he would take out a newspaper ad and donate to a local Birmingham charity.Â

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