"Police arrested dozens of Occupy Wall Street protesters on Saturday night during a protest marking the movement's six-month anniversary at its birthplace in New York's Zuccotti Park.
The sweep of the park by police just before midnight capped a day of demonstrations and marching in lower Manhattan. There was no official word on the number of arrests but dozens of people were handcuffed and led out of the park.
Earlier in the day, 15 people were arrested and three officers suffered injuries, police said.
Protesters reconvened at the park following afternoon marches through New York's financial district. By 11 p.m. roughly 300 had gathered there.
"This is our spring offensive," said Michael Premo, 30, of New York, who identified himself as a spokesman for the movement. "People think the Occupy movement has gone away. It's important for people to see we're back."
Inspired by the pro-democracy Arab Spring, the Wall Street protesters targeted U.S. financial policies they blamed for the yawning income gap between rich and poor in the country, between what they called the 1 percent and the 99 percent. The demonstrators set up camp in Zuccotti Park on September 17 and sparked a wave of protests across the United States.
On Saturday evening, several dozen police ringed the park and watched the crowd. Detective Brian Sessa said no action would be taken as long as the activists made no move to establish a camp."...via Free Republic, photo Reuters
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Reuters doesn't mention the 'pro-democracy' Arab Spring was about transition to sharia law. Perhaps Reuters thinks sharia law is democratic.
1/4/2012, "Egypt's Salafi Surge, These guys make the Muslim Brotherhood look like latte liberals."
"The parties' (Muslim Brotherhood and Salafi) disagreement over how quickly to implement sharia law, AbdulRahman explained, is at the center of their conflict. "For the Nour Party, one of the primary major goals is to implement sharia at the nearest possible opportunity," he said."...
The even more radical Salafists got a quarter of the upper house.
2/26/12, "Islamists win 80% of Egypt's upper parliament vote," Jerusalem Post, Oren Kessler
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Salafi's make changes in text of oath.
2/28/12, "Islamist elected speaker of Egypt's upper house," BBC
"Egypt's upper house of parliament has chosen an Islamist as its speaker, consolidating the Muslim Brotherhood's control of the country's legislature.
Ahmed Fahmi, a little-known member of the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), was elected during the Shura Council's inaugural session.
The FJP now controls 59% of the seats in the Shura Council and 43% in the lower house, the People's Assembly.
They will select a 100-member panel to draft a new constitution on Saturday....
As happened when the People's Assembly held its first session in January, Salafists made impromptu additions to the text of the oath. It [sic] with a pledge to respect the constitution and law, but several added "God's law" or "as long as there are no contradictions with God's law"."....
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