MFS - The Other News

                         Afternoon Posting.

• Statement by the President on the Occasion of Ramadan.And here in the United States, Ramadan is a reminder that Islam has always been part of America,and that American Muslims have made extraordinary contributions to our country.Hey read the American history "Islam has always been part of America"!Someone trying to rewrite American history?

• Among the Believers.A new look at the origins of Islam describes a tolerant world that may not have existed.Donner’s book has already been hailed in a manner showing that its thesis appeals deeply to American liberals(Read Obamabots): Here they find the nice, tolerant, and open Islam that they hanker for. If the book attains a wide readership and succeeds in persuading the broad American public that Muslims are not the ogres they tend to imagine, it will have done a useful job. As a contribution to scholarship, however, it leaves something to be desired.The main problem is that the only direct evidence for Donner’s central thesis is the Quranic verses on the believing People of the Book; all the rest is conjecture. The verses in question tell us nothing about events after the death of the Prophet, and it has to be said that the Medinese suras of which they form a part are not suggestive of ecumenicalism. They are full of bitterly hostile polemics against Jews and Christians, both of whom are charged with polytheism, deification of their own leaders, deification of themselves, and more besides. The Jews are faulted for rejecting Jesus, the Christians for deifying him.

• HT:The JawaReport.AQAP: Overthrow Saudi Monarchy/Kill All Christians.Al-Qaeda urged soldiers to help topple the Saudi monarchy and kill Christians and government officials in the kingdom, said someone purporting to be a leader of the group in a recording.Al-Qaeda ordered supporters in the Saudi army to “collect information on everything related to the Saudi royal family” in an effort to dethrone them, a speaker identified as Saeed al- Shihri said in an Arabic-language recording posted today on a website that often carries al-Qaeda statements. The identity of the speaker could not immediately be verified.Please add to your to do list:"blow up the Dokkae Tower "?Real terrorists don't need a phallus symbol.

• Lebanon: We'll reject U.S. military aid if weapons can't be used against Israel.Lebanese Defense Minister Elias Murr said he would reject any U.S. military assistance to Lebanon's army if it comes with conditions.Well knowing Obama's "love" for Israel he probably won't object.

• Video:Man Had Pea Plant Growing in Lung.The good news was he did not have lung cancer.

• Public approval nosedive--Obama, Democrats crash and burn.In the aftermath of the Democrats' special session of Congress, during the August recess, to cut food stamps from those citizens who suffer in the recession in order to approve a bailout of public school teachers, the latest major poll of likely voters shows that Barack Obama has now fallen to a -22 net disapproval--his lowest yet.The Rasmussen Poll, released just minutes ago, indicates that Obama is headed directly into the 'death zone' of the 30% range in public approval--an historic signal that his party is set to lose both houses of Congress in the November midterm elections.

• Does The 2012 GOP Convention Logo Include A Minaret?So is it one of the building's six minarets in the RNC logo? Or is it one of the building's four cupolas? It looks to us like the minaret. But look at the picture and judge for yourself.Nooo "They don't trust me cause of my middle name "wouldn't do this would he?

• U.S. Is Bankrupt and We Don't Even Know:Let’s get real. The U.S. is bankrupt. Neither spending more nor taxing less will help the country pay its bills.

• HT"MotherJones.The BP Cover-Up.BP and the government say the spill is fast disappearing—but dramatic new science reveals that its worst effects may be yet to come.

• ‘Non-Terrorist’ Taliban’s Slaughter of Aid Team Latest in Atrocities.As acknowledged in a new State Department report on terrorism, the Taliban also murders and maims Afghan civilians, with special attention to young girls attending school, kills foreign diplomats, and plots against the U.S. homeland. It has, of course, targeted our troops in the nearly nine-year-old war in Afghanistan.But according to the supreme leader they are not terrorists.who is he working for and when will the American people wake up?

• Muslim Inbreeding: Impacts on intelligence, sanity, health and society.Massive inbreeding within the Muslim culture during the last 1.400 years may have done catastrophic damage to their gene pool. The consequences of intermarriage between first cousins often have serious impact on the offspring's intelligence, sanity, health and on their surroundings.A rough estimate shows that close to half of all Muslims in the world are inbred: In Pakistan, 70 percent of all marriages are between first cousins (so-called "consanguinity") and in Turkey the amount is between 25-30 percent.Also more stillbirths among immigrants"..A large part of inbred Muslims are born from parents who are themselves inbred - which increase the risks of negative mental and physical consequenses greatly.

• America's Muslim Capitals.While the Ground Zero mosque generates nationwide debate, America has become a country of thousands of mosques, cultural institutions, and halal restaurants. VIEW OUR RANKING of America’s 30 Muslim centers.

• Ice island ... the unstoppable Arctic giant that threatens to bring more climatic havoc.Potentially in the path of this unstoppable giant are oil platforms and shipping lanes - and any collision could do untold damage.In a worst case scenario, large chunks could reach the heavily trafficked waters where another Greenland iceberg sank the Titanic in 1912.

• Attractive topless sunbather reported to police by mother of two for 'troubling' her sons on beach.The lawyer said:'Let's be clear my client is tall, brunette and has an ample breast and is therefore going to naturally be sensuous when she applies cream to her chest.I just hope it doesn't "trouble" the jury when watching her rub her breasts with lotion?

• Jeffrey Goldberg Probes Israel's Iran Strike Option: Is Netanyahu a "Bomber Boy"?What Jeffrey Goldberg has put out for us is an early treatment of what may be Barack Obama's "Cuban Missile Crisis" moment -- in which tensions are high, in which many in the room on all sides are engaged in extreme brinkmanship, and in which disaster looms for all parties.