Not feeling good about Greta's live tv report on Isis killing christians in Iraq

[lindysalsagal]

It is probably all true and of course murder is wrong.

But she's painting it as a binary sequence of events: all Muslim against all christians.

Nothing that happens in the middle east is that simple. It sure feels like she's on the muslim-hate train, and fomenting the right wing christian persecution complex.

She never mentioned that they kill their own muslims as well.

Really showing her bias here. Not feeling good about it.

[ck4829]

1. Yes, don't feel good about it, but do know you're not the only one.

Some people seem very invested in establishing this binary.

[PsychoBabble]

2. MSNBC, WHY in the name of all that is Holy

did you hire Greta??

What were you thinking?

Is this "mainstream balance," to balance your market?

Sigh ...

[hrmjustin]

3. Do yourself a favor and don't watch her.

She has a neoconservative agenda and she will only piss you off.

[malaise]

4. Well she might have told us how many Iraqis were killed by Bush, Cheney, Erik Prince

and the Con.
The entire mess was started by ReTHUGs.
Instead of garlands they created ISIS.

I can't speak for others but if anyone had fucked up my country in that way, they should have anticipated a resistance movement.

Fuck this biased coverage - blame Bush and Cheney

[walkingman]

5. I'm personaly tired of any and all of

this conversation about different religions. I think they all are undoubtedly the worst thing ever for the planet. No good outcomes ever. Crazy and irrational.

[spanone]

6. 14 years at fox 'news' ...

[oberliner]

7. Christians have had in very rough in Iraq

Their story definitely deserves to be told.

[Warpy]

8. She's a shining example of what the right wing kennel produces

She's a raving bigot and sees everything through the lens of that bigotry. She is a propagandist who should never be allowed any spot on something purporting to be news unless she is doing a clearly labeled editorial comment.

Tell MSNBC how you feel, that the woman belongs on Pox and should have been left there, that she's dragging their whole channel down and destroying its credibility with her outrageous bias.

I don't watch broadcast news of any type, it's worse than useless, it's destructive.

[safeinOhio]

9. Along with Palestinian Christians

in israel.

[TexasProgresive]

10. At least when Saddam was in power Iraq was nominally secular.

Tariq Azziz (sic) was a Catholic Christian. The Iraqi Jewish community has vaporized was at one time the oldest Jewish community in the world. His regime was horrible, but religion was not the driving force of the Ba"athists. It was Arab first not Muslim first. What G.W.Bush did was to break the structure of the whole area. Paul Bremer's plan of deBa'athification of Iraq was disastrous. It eliminated all middle and low level people who were instrumental in keeping the country on an even keel. Now the Shi'a who were repressed took revenge on the Sunni and everyone else.

The Iraqi Baath party was one of the tools by which Saddam Hussein maintained a tight grip on his country.

The Arab Socialist Baath Party, to give it its full name, was founded in Syria in the 1940s by a small group of French-educated Syrian intellectuals - Michel Aflaq, a Greek Orthodox, and Salah al-Din al-Bitar, a Sunni Muslim.

Baath party member taking up armed position in Baghdad
Baath party members are said to be preparing to defend Iraq
The word Baath means renaissance in Arabic.

The party's ideology is pan-Arab, secular nationalism.

A committed Baathist should see individual Arab states as regions or provinces of the larger Arab nation.

The party is secular, and in the beginning, was steeped in Socialist ideology.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2886733.stm

[Demsrule86]

11. She is a right wing tool. I never watch her.

[Initech]

12. Conservatives want a holy war. And that is fucking terrifying.

[lindysalsagal]

13. I know, right?

She made the trip as if it were "news." There's nothing "new" about what she reported. It's just more gratuitous violence.

[Initech]

14. I remember when they brought up the holy war idea during the Bush years.

They clearly wanted a Christians vs Muslims holy war akin to the crusades. Thankfully forces back then we're able to stop them from carrying out their wet dream. But now with Trump and Putin going after the organizations that would prevent such a thing from happening like the UN, NATO, and the EU, I fear they may get their wish. That's why they're amping up the anti-Islamic sentiments - they are that batshit crazy.

[eppur_se_muova]

15. Conservatives regard oppressed Christians as actual victims, non-Christians are just statistics.

This attitude has always pervaded the Far Right, and particularly FAUX.