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A Lebanese Salafist protester shout anti-Syrian regime slogans during a sit-in on July 8, 2011, in the northern city of Tripoli, Lebanon, after the Friday prayer to support Syrian protesters. (Associated Press)
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An elderly Egyptian protester chants anti-military ruling council prayers during a demonstration on July 8, 2011, following the Muslims' weekly Friday prayers, part of nationally organized protests called "The revolution first" at the main Arba'in square in Suez, Egypt. (Associated Press)
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Protesters in Martyrs Square in Suez, Egypt, on Tuesday, July 5, 2011, demonstrate with placards that read in Arabic, "Open strike there is retribution" (center); "I'm a thug" (right), which ridicules official accusations that protesters are violent thugs; and "Revolutionaries but they call us thugs." (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
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California Assembly Speaker John Perez, the body's first openly gay leader, urges lawmakers to approve a measure requiring public schools to teach the historical contributions of gay Americans, on Tuesday, July 5, 2011, in Sacramento. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
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An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man writes some of the last words in a Torah scroll before it is taken from the Western Wall into the Hurva synagogue in Jerusalem's Old City. Software developed by an Israeli team of scholars is giving intriguing new hints about what researchers believe to be the multiple hands that wrote the Bible. (Associated Press)
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A piece of an ancient parchment is believed to be part of the authoritative manuscript of the Hebrew Bible, the Aleppo Codex. (Associated Press)
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Prince Albert II and Princess Charlene of Monaco depart from the palace after their religious wedding ceremony on Saturday, July 2, 2011. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan, Pool)
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Pro-Syrian President Bashar Assad protesters hold up a poster of him (shown far right) during a demonstration to show their support in Damascus, Syria, on Friday, July 1, 2011. Hundreds of thousands of protesters flooded cities around Syria on Friday in one of the largest outpourings against the regime of Assad. (AP Photo/Muzaffar Salman)
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Illustration: Catholic vote by John Camejo for The Washington Times
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Jenny Sidhu Mullin's "American Temple" pokes fun at Americans' love of exotic philosophies, through July 23 at Flashpoint.
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Ernesto Cuevas, a volunteer with the Colombia exhibit at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, plays a guitar while resting on a hammock during the festival's opening day Thursday, June 30, 2011.(Pratik Shah/The Washington Times)
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Protesters shout slogans as riot police stand in Athens' Syntagma square, Tuesday, June 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
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Greek protesters protect themselves with masks and hoods Tuesday as riot police fire volleys of tear gas and stun grenades. (Associated Press)
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Prince Albert II of Monaco and his fiancee, Charlene Wittstock, attend the St. Jean religious parade on Thursday in Monaco. The couple will be married in a civil ceremony on Friday. (Associated Press)
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A tractor removes a section of the Israeli-built barrier between the outskirts of the West Bank village of Bilin, near Ramallah, and the Jewish settlement of Modiin Illit on Sunday. (Associated Press)
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Anti-government protesters demand the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh during a demonstration in Sanaa, Yemen, on Friday, June 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)
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Ronald Moten is co-founder of Peaceoholics, a home for troubled youth where Sanquan Carter was to stay. (The Washington Times)
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"We need to be smarter in how we go about doing things. We need to use more common sense." - John Pistole, administrator of the TSA. (Associated Press)
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Illustration: Under God by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times
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Magician and Miss USA judge Penn Jillette wrote on Twitter that Miss Tennessee Ashley Durham "negated the whole First Amendment" while answering a question about burning Qurans and that he was "glad to help her lose" the competition. Miss Durham placed second to Miss California Alyssa Campanella.
