MSNBC’s feelings hurt.

Via WaPo:

“We thank our listeners for tuning in and present the following Islamic State news bulletin.”

That is how thousands of listeners are greeted when they tune into al-Bayan, the Islamic State radio broadcast that delivers the Islamic State news from a smooth, male voice with an American accent.

The news bulletin, delivered through Twitter and other social media sites, is yet another avenue the Islamic State has used to up its recruitment and get even more people to join in its fight to create a caliphate.

The radio segment eerily sounds like an NPR news program — it leads with “a glimpse of the main headlines,” followed by updates from the various “wilayats,” or states, of the Islamic State in Syria, Iraq and beyond.

The program then ends with a recap of the headlines and then another thank you to “listeners for tuning in.”

But behind the savvy production, professional tone and soothing background music lurks a more sinister message: The bulletins, distributed in English and in Arabic, calmly detail the attacks the Islamic State carried out, the suicide bombings by their fighters and the deaths of opposition groups.

When a suicide bomber’s attack is announced on the program, it is always followed by a wish that Allah would accept him as a martyr. Take this June 1 broadcast– the news of a militant attack in Misrata, Libya, that left five dead the previous day was listed under news from “Wilayat Tarabulus,” an Islamic State stronghold in Libya.

Our brother Abū Wahīb at-Tūnusī carried out an istishhādī operation targeting Fajr Libya fighters at the Dafniyyah gate located between Misrātah and Zulaytin in Wilāyat Tarābulus. May Allah accept him amongst the shuhadā’.