Fox’s Bob Beckel compares Islamic terror to dating your mixed-race girlfriend

Fox’s Bob Beckel compares Islamic terror to dating your mixed-race girlfriend
Arturo Garcia
08 Jan 2015 at 22:28 ET



Fox News host Bob Beckel tried to compare an alleged rise in acceptance for Islamic extremism in France to tolerance for interracial dating in the U.S., Media Matters reported on Thursday.

“I think it’s sort of like in the United States where younger people today, it’s not at all unusual for people to see multicultural dating, for example,” Beckel told his co-hosts on The Five. “Back when I was young you didn’t date out of your own ethnicity. But in Europe and other places, this mingling that’s going on here, younger people are beginning to find this acceptable. And that’s the thing that is sort of scary because they’re getting exposed to it on a daily basis.”

Beckel alluded to a poll he said showed that young people “were much more predisposed” to supporting radical Muslim groups than their elders. Co-host Greg Gutfeld specifically mentioned a Russian news agency survey reportedly showing that 27 percent of respondents between the ages of 18 and 24 “have a positive opinion” of the Islamic State terrorist group (ISIS).

However, the Washington Post determined that some of the survey’s findings don’t “add up.”

According to the Post, if one considers that “Sunni Muslims with extremist views” would be more likely to indicate support for a group like ISIS, then one must also factor in that only an estimated 7.5 percent of the French population is Muslim. Comparatively, the Muslim populations in the United Kingdom and Germany — which were also covered by the survey — were an estimated 4.4 percent and 5 percent of those countries’ respective populations.

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