DEARBORN — A woman was stoned in Dearborn last year, an unidentified man said on Fox News' top rated show. If you did not hear about the incident, it is because it never happened. The claim was one of many false allegations in a Fox report on Arabs and Muslims in the city.
The video segment aired on the O'Reilly Factor Monday night; a day later, close to a dozen calls for bombing Dearborn surfaced on Fox News's Facebook page. City officials and community activists condemned the news network for its inaccurate portrayal of the city.
Calling Dearborn the "Arabic capitol" of North America, Fox reporter Jesse Watters falsely alleges Muslims control the city council and the police chief is Muslim. Chief Ronald Haddad is Christian, and only two out of Dearborn's seven-member city council identify as Muslim.
In the report, Watters interviews several Arab American residents asking short, insolent questions with a broad smile, quickly moving the microphone, as to appear funny.
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