“Stranded on a barren mountaintop, thousands of minority Iraqis are faced with a bleak choice: descend and risk slaughter at the hands of the encircled Sunni extremists or sit tight and risk dying of thirst.
Humanitarian agencies said Tuesday that between 10,000 and 40,000 civilians remain trapped on Mount Sinjar since being driven out of surrounding villages and the town of Sinjar two days earlier. But the mountain that had looked like a refuge is becoming a graveyard for their children.
Unable to dig deep into the rocky mountainside, displaced families said they have buried young and elderly victims of the harsh conditions in shallow graves, their bodies covered with stones. Iraqi government planes attempted to airdrop bottled water to the mountain on Monday night but reached few of those marooned.”* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.
*Read more here from Loveday Morris / The Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/iraqi-yazidis-stranded-on-isolated-mountaintop-begin-to-die-of-thirst/2014/08/05/57cca985-3396-41bd-8163-7a52e5e72064_story.html
Comments
Wow, I really used to respect Cenk Uygur and TYT because I thought that they were more fair in their representation of facts than mainstream media. This video however, really had the feel of Fox news or some Atheist propoganda machine. A lot of the criticism that he dished out was attacking Islam as a faith rather than ISIS. This is ridiculous because the vast majority of Muslim’s condemn ISIS and believe that what they are doing, especially to minorities, is against the teachings of Islam and it’s prophet. By accusing Islam and it’s prophet with “Fox News” talking points, I really felt like he lost all credibility, especially since his points were not factual and were meant to construe the legacy that ISIS claims to follow as the flaw that makes them who they are. Ironically, it has been the remnants of the true legacy of Islam that has allowed for such religious diversity to exist in the ME for hundreds of years. Very disappointing because the hypocrisy and error of ISIS methodology is so apparent that sinking to the level that Cenk Uygur did leads his educated viewers to believe that either he does not know much about ISIS or that he simply took the opportunity to attack a faith that he himself does not favor when the opportunity arose.