Hillary Calls ISIS Treatment of Christians "Genocide"

[firebrand80]

The comment came Tuesday at a town hall in Berlin, N.H., where a voter asked if she would join Pope Francis and others in calling the assault on Christians and other religious minorities “by its proper name: ‘Genocide’?” the voter asked, according to the Associated Press. The former secretary of state answered that she had held back on using the term because of the legal implications and the weight, but now “I will because now we have enough evidence.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2015/12/30/hillary-clinton-just-said-isiss-assault-on-christians-is-genocide-thats-huge-to-some-voters/?tid=sm_tw

[HereSince1628]

1. We need victims of the most heinous crimes to justify more intervention.

Please believe that this is genocide!! Jobs! Profits! American Global leadership depends on our being convinced we must kill a LOT more people.

If we do this -RIGHT- our allies can get naming rights for the next phalangist puppet

[DemocratSinceBirth]

6. Is the Phalangist Party active in Northern Iraq where a genocide of the Yazidi Christians ...

Is the Phalangist Party active in Northern Iraq where a genocide of the Yazidi Christians is going on?

Thank you in advance.

[mwrguy]

2. Genocide?

Seems like there are still plenty of christians outside of ISIS territory.

[HerbChestnut]

3. Just like there were plenty of Jews outside Nazi territory...

Look I'm no fan of Hillary Clinton or foreign intervention, but the Pope is right. It's well documented that ISIS is killing anyone who doesn't adhere to their beliefs, including Christians. Call it what it is.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

4. Seems like it meet the definition

gen·o·cide
ˈjenəˌsīd/Submit
noun
the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation.

As progressives we should abhor the targeting of anybody for what is essentially an intrinsic characteristic.

[obliviously]

9. It would seem

by your comment a head is just a superfluous accessory anyway.

[Motown_Johnny]

5. It could be argued that it does fit the U.N. Definition, but....

it is still pretty scary to have her escalate the saber rattling to this level.

[Bonobo]

7. Very very bad. Does she think she is Pope Urban II?

Does she want another Crusade?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

8. Why is calling out genocide a bad thing?

I wish more people would have called out the genocide of the Armenians, the Jews, and the Roma for starters, a lot of my relatives, albeit distant, would still be alive.

"All it takes for evil to prosper is for men of good will to do nothing."

-Edmund Burke