Steven Emerson was born on June 6,1954 and is an American journalist, author, and pundit on national security, terrorism, and Islamic extremism.
24 Facts About Steven Emerson
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Steven Emerson received a Bachelor of Arts from Brown University in 1976, and a Master of Arts in sociology in 1977.
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Steven Emerson went to Washington, DC, in 1977 with the intention of putting off his law school studies for a year.
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Steven Emerson worked on staff as an investigator for the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee until 1982, and as an executive assistant to Democratic Senator Frank Church of Idaho.
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Steven Emerson was a freelance writer for The New Republic, for whom he wrote a series of articles in 1982 on the influence of Saudi Arabia on US corporations, law firms, public-relations outfits, and educational institutions.
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Steven Emerson expanded this material in 1985 in his first book, The American House of Saud: The Secret Petrodollar Connection.
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Steven Emerson left CNN in 1993 to work on a documentary, Terrorists Among Us: Jihad in America, for the Public Broadcasting Service.
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The Council on American-Islamic Relations noted that PBS denied requests by Arab and Muslim journalists to screen the program before its showing, and argued that Steven Emerson was promoting "a wild theory about an Islamic terrorist network in America".
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Steven Emerson has made false claims about Muslims in the US and Europe; in particular, some of his claims during a Fox News segment about the relationship between British Muslims and the city of Birmingham were subsequently rebuked by the then British Prime Minister David Cameron and led to a censure of Fox News by Ofcom for the airing of the comments which the broadcasting regulator characterized as "materially misleading" and "a serious breach for a current affairs programme".
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Steven Emerson told viewers not to believe Islamic groups' denials of their involvement.
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Steven Emerson has said some critics fail to recite the rest of his statement that references the 1993 World Trade Center attack which was carried out with a fertilizer truck bomb.
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Steven Emerson indicated that he was one of many experts interviewed after the bombing who concluded there were similarities between the Oklahoma City bombing and Middle Eastern terrorism.
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Steven Emerson said the initial reporting did not "tar the entire Muslim community", that he referred only to a fanatical minority in the Islamic community.
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Steven Emerson acknowledged there were outbreaks of harassment which he referred to as unfortunate.
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In January 2001 it was reported that Steven Emerson pointed out that the US had missed clues that would have allowed it to focus on al-Qaeda early on.
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In 1988, Steven Emerson was referred to by The New York Times as "an expert on intelligence", and in 2015 as a "self-described terrorism expert".
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Steven Emerson has been regarded as a part of the counter-jihad movement.
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Stephen Suleyman Schwartz wrote an article defending Steven Emerson that attempted to explain why Islamists dislike him.
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Steven Emerson has been criticized for espousing Islamophobic views by Islamic studies scholars such as Juliane Hamer and Omid Safi, with German media scholar Kai Hafez, and Carl Ernst naming Steven Emerson along with Daniel Pipes as the two most prominent Islamophobic voices in the US.
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Steven Emerson's work was cited as an instance of poor reporting on Islam in the Sut Jhally film about Edward Said's Orientalism, specifically his claim after the Oklahoma City bombing that the municipality was a center of Muslim extremism.
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Steven Emerson has a close relationship to Gordon Kromberg, a federal prosecutor in the Eastern District of Virginia.
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Steven Emerson wondered why a suspect would be deported and not prosecuted.
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Steven Emerson reasoned that United States handles Saudi nationals differently to appease Saudi Arabia and not to embarrass the country.
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In January 2015, following terrorist attacks in Paris, Steven Emerson stated in an interview on Fox News that the city of Birmingham was populated entirely by Muslims and was a "no go area" for non-Muslims.