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In this Feb. 8, 2006, file photo, Margie Phelps, right, and her nephew, Gabriel Phelps-Roper, then 10, center, both from the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., protest before the start of a memorial service for soldiers killed in combat from the Army's 101st Airborne Division in front of the main entrance to Fort Campbell, Ky. Ms. Phelps is set to go before the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2010, to represent her church in a case that tests the scope of free speech protections under the Constitution's First Amendment. (AP Photo/Christopher Berkey, File)
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Ordained Baptist minister and conservative Republican Michel Faulkner is running against Rep. Charlie Rangel in New York's 15th District. (Photo from Faulkner for Congress)
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THEN: On April 16, 1991, Jewish settlers establish themselves in Revava, near the West Bank city of Nablus. Nearly two decades ago, when Revava was established, the U.S. was trying hard to push Israelis and Palestinians toward a peace agreement. (Associated Press)
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A Palestinian child holds a charred Quran, a Muslim holy book, inside a mosque in the West Bank village of Beit Fajjar, near Bethlehem, Monday Oct. 4, 2010. Arsonists torched a mosque in a Palestinian village in the West Bank on Monday, scrawling "revenge" on a wall in Hebrew and charring copies of the Muslim holy book in a blaze that threatened to stoke new tensions over deadlocked Mideast peacemaking. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
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A Palestinian prays in the torched and vandalized Prophet's Mosque in Beit Fajjar, north of Hebron in the West Bank, October 4, 2010, 2010. Palestinian sources said that Jewish settlers entered the mosque and torched the mosque, Koran books, prayer rugs and left Hebrew graffiti with slogans against Arabs, Muslims and Mohammad on the walls. UPI/Debbie Hill
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Palestinian police stand by a box of burned Koran books in the torched and vandalized Prophet's Mosque in Beit Fajjar, north of Hebron in the West Bank, October 4, 2010, 2010. Palestinian sources said that Jewish settlers entered the mosque and torched the mosque, Koran books, prayer rugs and left Hebrew graffiti with slogans against Arabs, Muslims and Mohammad on the walls. UPI/Debbie Hill
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Palestinians look at Hebrew graffiti, that reads 'Revenge', in the torched and vandalized Prophet's Mosque in Beit Fajjar, north of Hebron in the West Bank, October 4, 2010, 2010. Palestinian sources said that Jewish settlers entered the mosque and torched the mosque, Koran books, prayer rugs and left Hebrew graffiti with slogans against Arabs, Muslims and Mohammad on the walls. UPI/Debbie Hill
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Palestinians look at Hebrew graffiti, that reads 'Mosque toilet 18', with a Star of David in the torched and vandalized Prophet's Mosque in Beit Fajjar, north of Hebron in the West Bank, October 4, 2010, 2010. Palestinian sources said that Jewish settlers entered the mosque and torched the mosque, Koran books, prayer rugs and left Hebrew graffiti with slogans against Arabs, Muslims and Mohammad on the walls. UPI/Debbie Hill
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Palestinian police carry a box of burned Koran books in the torched and vandalized Prophet's Mosque in Beit Fajjar, north of Hebron in the West Bank, October 4, 2010, 2010. Palestinian sources said that Jewish settlers entered the mosque and torched the mosque, Koran books, prayer rugs and left Hebrew graffiti with slogans against Arabs, Muslims and Mohammad on the walls. UPI/Debbie Hill
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Palestinians pray in the torched and vandalized Prophet's Mosque in Beit Fajjar, north of Hebron in the West Bank, October 4, 2010, 2010. Palestinian sources said that Jewish settlers entered the mosque and torched the mosque, Koran books, prayer rugs and left Hebrew graffiti with slogans against Arabs, Muslims and Mohammad on the walls. UPI/Debbie Hill
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A Palestinian child holds a charred Koran inside a mosque in the West Bank village of Beit Fajjar, near Bethlehem, on Monday, Oct. 4, 2010, after arsonists, scrawling "Revenge" on a wall in Hebrew, torched the mosque. The blaze threatens to stoke new tensions over deadlocked Mideast peacemaking. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
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SOMA ARCHITECTS The edifice of the so-called "ground zero mosque" in New York has been compared to "Superman's fortress of solitude."
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Pope Benedict XVI is greeted by faithful as he arrives by popemobile to celebrate an open-air Mass at Palermo, Sicily, on Sunday, Oct. 3, 2010. The pontiff paid tribute to a Palermo priest slain by the Mafia and encouraged Sicilians not to resign themselves to deep-rooted evil on the island, where organized crime has held sway for centuries. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)
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** FILE ** Laura Pollan (right), leader of the Cuban female dissident group Ladies in White, prays during a Mass in Havana, on Sunday, Sept. 19, 2010. Cuba's Roman Catholic Church on the previous Friday revealed the names of four more political prisoners to be released into exile in Spain. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)
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**FILE** Bishop Eddie Long, pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church near Atlanta, has been accused by four men of luring them into sexual relationships. (Associated Press)
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German President Christian Wulff (left) and Chancellor Angela Merkel stand in front of the Rathous, or town hall, in Bremen, Germany, before celebrations marking the 20th anniversary of Germany's reunification on Sunday, Oct. 3, 2010. (AP Photo/dapd/David Hecker)
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In this image distributed Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010 by the Israel Museum, an image of an 1920 drawing by Swiss artist Paul Klee . The drawing was seized by the Nazis during World War II and has completed a 73-year journey from the hands of its original German Jewish owner to the collection of a Jewish charity in Britain, Israel's national museum said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Israel Museum)
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New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton scratches his head after a play at the Louisiana Superdome as the Saints hosted the Atlanta Falcons in an NFL football game Sunday Sept. 26, 2010. (AP Photo/The Hattiesburg American, Matt Bush)
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Barcelona's Lionel Messi, left, and Rubin Kazan's Christian Noboa struggle for the ball during their Champions League Group D soccer match in Kazan, Russia, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010. Game ended with a 1-1 draw. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)
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India's Rapid Action Force soldiers patrol in front of a mosque in Mumbai, India, Thursday, Sept. 30, 2010. An Indian court ruled Thursday that a disputed holy site in Ayodhya that has sparked bloody communal riots across the country in the past should be divided between the Hindu and Muslim communities, a lawyer involved in the suit said. The Muslim community said it would appeal the ruling in the 60-year-old case to the Supreme Court. Muslims revere the compound in Ayodhya as the site of the now-demolished 16th century Babri Mosque, while Hindus say it is the birthplace of the god Rama. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)
