MFS - The Other News

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• Colombo activists and religious leaders call for end to abuse of migrants in Saudi Arabia.Hundreds of human rights activists, religious leaders and local film stars have protested against the torture suffered by Sinhalese migrants in Saudi Arabia for work. On August 30 a crowd of people gathered in front of the Saudi Embassy in Colombo, shouting out slogans against the governments of Rhyad and Colombo, accused of doing nothing against the violation of human rights of migrants.In recent years Human Rights Watch and other human rights groups have denounced the poor condition of workers. They are often victims of abuse, such as torture, unpaid wages and subjected to gruelling work hours without rest.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Another Obama White House Lie About Islam.Remember that iftar dinner the president sponsored? The dinner that got him in trouble because he came out in strong support of the mega-mosque at Ground Zero, support from which he backed away the very next day? Well, it turns out he delivered another blatant lie at that dinner, one that slipped under the radar because his support of the Ground Zero Mosque was so controversial.In his remarks at the iftar observance, Obama claimed that the "first" iftar dinner in the White House was hosted by Thomas Jefferson.But for Obama and the New York Times to mislead the American people into imagining that the White House has celebrated iftar all the way back to 1805 is simply a straight out lie.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Earth from Space: Giant iceberg enters Nares Strait.ESA's Envisat satellite has been tracking the progression of the giant iceberg that calved from Greenland's Petermann glacier on 4 August 2010. This animation shows that the iceberg, the largest in the northern hemisphere, is now entering Nares Strait – a stretch of water that connects the Lincoln Sea and Arctic Ocean with Baffin Bay.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Pakistan Taliban say their bomber kills 43 Shiites.The Pakistani Taliban have claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing that killed at least 43 Shiite Muslims in southwest Pakistan on Friday.The attack sharply drove up the toll of sectarian assaults in a country battered by massive flooding.Pakistani Taliban commander Qari Hussain Mehsud tells The Associated Press that though they are fighting the U.S. and the Pakistani government, "Shiites are also our target."Fireworks for Ramadan?Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:TheBlaze.Video:Gingrich: Stop The Mosque — Make Ground Zero a National Battlefield Memorial.

• Video footage showing the Basij and plain-clothes thugs surrounding Mehdi Karroubi's residence on Thursday night (Sept. 2,2010), eve of Qods Day rally, and by chanting insulting slogans and attacking the building trying to terrorize Mehdi Karroubi, his family and the neighbors. The thugs were chanting insulting slogans against Mehdi Karroubi and in support for the supreme leader such as "The blood in our veins is the gift for our supreme leader" meanwhile from the dialogue between the persons filming these scene most of the residents turned off all the lights in fear and the sound of guns being shot and windows being smashed can clearly be heard in the video.Click here for comments.

• HT:EmergingCorruption.Soros/Obama/Democrat and the Communist Party USA Connected “Veterans Group” Backs “Ground Zero Mosque”.According to Joel Wendland, himself an army veteran and editor of the Communist Party USA newsite Peoples World, the organization VoteVets.org, believes that the proposed mosque should be supported on Constitutional grounds and will serve to enhance U.S. national security in the long term.Is the the call by VoteVets.org, for Park51 to go ahead a genuine attempt to shed light the issue, by calling for tolerance and extending an olive branch to moderate Islam?Or is it a cynical ploy by the Obama Administration and its allies, to take some heat out of the issue, by using “veterans” as cover for what is essentially a “progressive” agenda?Americans rightly respect their veterans and tend to listen to their opinions. Would the public be happy to know that VoteVets.org was connected to both President Barack Obama and the not so popular George Soros?Do they really want to be on the same side as the Communist Party USA on this issue?The former servicemen and women of VoteVets.org are genuine veterans, but are their paymasters genuine patriots?Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:WeaselZippers.FAIL: Two Teachers Who Stood Behind Obama During Rose Garden Announcement of Bill to Save Teachers Jobs Did Not Have Their Jobs Saved by The Bill.And neither of them got their jobs back because of the federal legislation that Obama was touting.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• WH Spokesman: Obama is ‘Committed Mainstream Christian’.Here is a sampling of President Obama's pastor of twenty years, and the "Mainstream Christianity" he professed.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Egypt scraps visit by Iranian foreign minister to protest comments on Mideast peace talks.Egypt has canceled a visit by Iran’s foreign minister to protest comments in which he accused Arab leaders of betrayal for attending the new round of Mideast peace talks in Washington.Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki had been scheduled to visit Cairo Monday for a meeting of Nonaligned Movement members.Iran has an uneasy relationship with U.S.-allied Arab nations, which have watched Tehran’s growing influence in the Middle East with concern because of suspicions over its nuclear program and its support for radical Islamic groups like Hamas and Hezbollah.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Robert Rodriguez’s Machete opens today. Here’s a preview.Click here for comments.