How bad is it?

This bad.  All it is is a story about bad weather in the Middle East, and the comments are outrageous.  The most recent, presently at 10:35pm, are as follows (and remember, this is just a story about bad weather):

"allah mad"

"Heavy rains? It's o.k. I have seen many pictures of the Middle East- everyone wears a hat."

"Its Israels fault! They trained the storm to hit the other countries around them. Watch out for the Mossad ... I'm joking of course"

"Couldn't happen to a nicer group!"

"One thing is for sure. The sociopathic powers that be of the extremist countries in this region will find a way to blame this on the West and/or Israel, and the masses will believe them. Sometimes I think they rival cold war Russia when it comes to propoganda [sic]."

This is the kind of thing that will be looked back on the way we remember the segregationists or the McCarthyists.

Let's hope.

[shutters.]