BBC News:  More than 60 people were killed in Syria as thousands of anit-government protesters took to the streets after Friday prayers, rights activists say.  At least 53 people were believed to have died when security forces fired on a crowd of about 50,000 people in the central city of Hama.  Some accounts put the death toll at more than 100.  The opposition had dedicated the day to children killed during the uprising.  The army meanwhile continued its assault on the central town of Rastan.  Scores have been killed in the past few days as troops and tanks attempted to quell protests there.  At least two civilians died on Friday, the local coordination committees said.  Since early this morning there has been extensive bombardment with heavy and medium gunfire, using tanks, armored vehicles and automatic machine gunfire.  A Rastan resident told BBC Arabic on Friday.  There was also random shelling and there were snipers widespread on all the rooftops of the government buildings.  State television said about 80 security personnel had been wounded.  Reports from Syria are hard to verify independently, as foreign journalists are not being allowed into the country.  On Thursday, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said President Bashar-al-Assad's legitimacy had "nearly run out."  She said the US had done all it could to exert pressure on Syria, but she lamented the lack of a strong, united international response.  Human rights groups say more than 1,100 people have been killed since pro-democracy demonstrations began in mid-March.  Organizers of the protest have tried to give each week a theme and this latest day was dubbed the "Friday of the Children of Freedom," reports BBCs Jim Muir in Beirut.  It comes at the end of a week when the UN Children's Fund (Unicef) highlighted the death of at least 30 young people so far.  The week has also seen a 13-year-old boy from the south, Hamza al-Khatib, emerge as the unofficial icon of the Syrian revolution.  Activists said he had been tortured to death by security forces - something the authorities have denied.  Security forces opened fire on the protesters in Hama's old quarter and the nearby Assi square, activists said, killing at least 53 people.  Several hundred others were also wounded, they said. " The firing began from rooftops on the demonstrators.  I saw scores of people falling in Assi square and the streets and alleyways branching out; blood was everywhere," one witness told Reuters News Agency.  "It looked to me as if hundreds of people have been injured, but I was in a panic and wanted to find cover," he said.  Hama was the scene of a brutal crackdown in 1982 ordered by Hafez al-Assad, the president's late father, which left at least 10,000 dead.  There have also been reports that the internet service had been cut in several parts of the country, apparently to prevent activists from uploading footage of the protests and repression.  US firm Renesys confirmed the outage and said two-thirds of all Syrian networks were unavailable.  

My Comments:  These Muslim nations are all in bloody uproar and unrest.  We have factions here who want to integrate Sharia laws into our judicial system.  I'm sure you have heard of "the New World Order rising."  "Shutting down the internet" sounds familiar.  This administration last year received approval in the US Senate, by way of the "kill switch" bill, to shut the internet down for as long as four months, without Congressional oversight, despite outcry that this legislation could kill free speech.  I am of the opinion that if people want dictators, if people want to be oppressed, if people want Sharia law - whereby a thief gets his hand cut off and women suffer "honor killings" on a regular basis, these people can all go to Egypt (where they are burning churches and Christians) and to Syria (where the people are shot and killed in the streets during "friendly" protests, etc, etc.)  I appreciate the freedom we have in America.  It is time America wake up and posture themselves to defend our rights and freedoms, because they are soon to evaporate, if we don't.  We need to pray that the Lord stays the "iron fist" of socialism until we, His people, are gone.  We already know what will happen in the world after the rapture of the saints of God, "He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand or in their foreheads" Revelation 13:16.  Have you noticed that while all of these Muslim nations are suffering outrageous violence on a consistent basis, President Obama wants to give these people our tax dollars, which we really don't have because the nation is bankrupt?  How crazy and insane is that?  I Corinthians 3:19, "The wisdom of this world is foolishness with God.  For it is written, He takes the wise in their own craftiness."  I Corinthians 1:20, "Where is the wise?  Where is the scribe?  Where is the disputer of this world?  Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?"