The Scriptorium

Arab revolution is leading to great things, isn’t it? NOT! Pray for the Christians living in Sudan. Their lives just got a lot more dangerous.

Sudan plans to move forward with an all-Islamic constitution and a legal system governed by Shariah law, the country’s president said Wednesday.

The announcement comes three months after neighboring South Sudan, largely Christian, declared its independence and split off from the predominantly Muslim north. Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir had said in December that his country would adopt an Islamic constitution if the south made such a move, Reuters reported, though many hoped he would not go through with it.

“Ninety eight percent of the people are Muslims and the new constitution will reflect this. The official religion will be Islam and Islamic law the main source [of the constitution],” Bashir said in a speech to students in Khartoum. “We call it a Muslim state.”

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According to Mayor Bloomberg, the owners of Zuccotti Park, where protesters have chosen to concentrate their odor, were threatened by lefty politicians who promised things would get worse for the owners if protesters were not allowed to continue sliming the park. I wonder how many Americans know about the backing these anarchists, revolutionaries, and Communists have within our own government. Not many, if the MSM can help it.

The Occupy Wall Street protest has managed to keep its base of operations in New York‘s Zuccotti Park despite the Mayor’s proclamation that they must leave, and it looks like political pressure played a decisive role.

Mayor Bloomberg said on his weekly radio show that the park’s owner, Brookfield Office Properties, “Got lots of calls from many elected officials threatening them and saying … ‘We’re going to make your life more difficult.’”

If it wasn’t clear enough before, it now appears obvious there are heavy-hitter politicos at work behind the scenes that want Occupy Wall Street to continue.

While there have been no further specifics yet on the “elected officials” Bloomberg mentioned, the occupiers are getting support from across the political, financial, and media worlds.

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The OWSies got the news this morning that they’d be able to continue squatting in what was once a public park. In celebration, they got some of the confrontation and violence they’ve been looking for. Riding their brooms down to the New York Stock Exchange, while trying to block police, and disobeying police orders, led to several arrests and complaints of police brutality. Straight from the progressive handbook – break the law, play the victim, rinse, and repeat.

A group of protesters headed south on Broadway toward the New York Stock Exchange, carrying their brooms. Police were taken off-guard, Sandberg reported. The group swelled quickly and wound up in a confrontation with police as they tried to gain access to Wall Street. The standoff occurred near Bowling Green as they turned left on Beaver Street.

Police urged protesters to stay out of the street and stay on the sidewalk.

Police scooters were shaped like a V and moved toward the protesters in the standoff. One man lost his balance, and was run over by a police scooter.

“He was just walking and the cop ran him over,” one witness said.

Protesters chanted “The whole world is watching” during the arrests……

They flatter themselves. I doubt the whole world is watching.

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