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Afghans walk past tires that were burnt by protesters during an anti-U.S. demonstration in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Feb. 22, 2012. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** President Obama, accompanied by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, announces the revamp of his contraception policy requiring religious institutions to fully pay for birth control on Feb. 10, 2012, at the White House. (Associated Press)
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Testifying before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012, in Washington are (from left) Bishop William E. Lori of Bridgeport, Conn.; the Rev. Matthew C. Harrison, president of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod; C. Ben Mitchell, Graves professor of moral philosophy at Union University in Jackson, Tenn.; Rabbi Meir Soloveichik, director of the Straus Center of Torah and Western Thought at Yeshiva University in New York; and Craig Mitchell, associate professor of ethics of the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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A Jewish settler woman waits Feb. 22, 2012, for a ride outside the Jewish West Bank settlement of Shilo. Israel gave preliminary approval to a plan to build 600 new homes in a settlement deep inside the West Bank, a move that drew a rebuke from the United Nations and Palestinians and threatened to raise new tensions with the U.S. as the prime minister prepares to head to the White House. (Associated Press)
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Tires burn during an anti-U.S. demonstration in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012, to protest the burning of Qurans, the Muslim holy book, at the Bagram Airfield military base. (AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)
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Fliers are posted on a wall outside of the prayer room at the Islamic Culture Center in Newark, N.J., on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012. Newarkâs mayor is promising an investigation after learning that the New York Police Department spied on his city and built secret files on mosques and Muslim businesses. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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Mohammed el-Sioufi, an accountant and vice president of the Islamic Culture Center, a mosque in Newark, is interviewed by the Associated Press about the New York Police Department's surveillance of the Muslim community in Newark, N.J., Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012. AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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Ahmad, 12, (left) and Zainab Bannout, 9, each have their own Arabic workbook, and after they finish their lesson, they read the Koran as part of their home-schooling in Montgomery County. They are home-schooled by their mother, who has a master's degree in education psychology,
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A child reads from the Koran at his home. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
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Ahmad Bannout, 12, reads from the Koran at his home. His mother says her children read for memorization after practicing in their Arabic workbooks. (Jessica Carpenter/The Washington Times)
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Ahmad, 12, (left) and Zainab Bannout, 9, each have their own Arabic workbook, and after they finish their lesson, they read the Koran as part of their home-schooling in Montgomery County. They are home-schooled by their mother, who has a master's degree in education psychology. (Jessica Carpenter/The Washington Times)
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** FILE ** Afghans demonstrate outside Bagram Air Field, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012, to protest the improper disposal and burning of Korans and other Islamic religious materials at the U.S. base. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
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The headquarters of the Southern Baptist Convention are shown in Nashville, Tenn., in December 2011. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
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** FILE ** The Rev. William E. Lori, Roman Catholic bishop of Bridgeport, Conn., gestures while testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012, before the House Oversight and Government Reform committee hearing: "Lines Crossed: Separation of Church and State. Has the Obama Administration Trampled on Freedom of Religion & Freedom of Conscience." From left are, Lori, the Rev. Dr. Matthew C. Harrison, president of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, and C. Ben Mitchell, professor of Moral Philosophy Union University. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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New York Knicks guard Jeremy Lin, an instant sensation since coming off the bench to score 25 points Feb. 4, has gained followers worldwide. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** People walk on the campus at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, on Feb. 13, 2012. (Associated Press)
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Protesters throw rocks at police, who respond with tear gas, on a central boulevard in Dakar, Senegal, on Sunday. The fifth consecutive day of pre-election clashes took on a religious dimension in this normally tolerant Muslim nation. (Associated Press)
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A coffin holding the remains of singer Whitney Houston is carried into the New Hope Baptist Church before her funeral services in Newark, N.J., on Saturday, Feb. 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)
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Candles burn at a memorial at a memorial to Whitney Houston outside New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, N.J., early Saturday, Feb. 18, 2012. Whitney Houston's funeral will take place later Saturday at the church where she sang in the choir as a girl. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
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Pope Benedict XVI arrives to preside over a consistory in St. Peter's basilica at the Vatican, Saturday, Feb. 18, 2012. He is bringing 22 new Catholic churchmen into the elite club of cardinals who will elect his successor amid signs the 84-year-old pontiff is slowing down. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
