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In this Oct. 22, 2004, file photo, a Pakistani woman prays after the first Friday prayers of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan at a mosque in Lahore, Pakistan. An Australian Muslim woman who sought permission to keep her face and head covered while she gives evidence at an upcoming trial was told by a judge Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010, she would have to remove her veil. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary, File)
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President Obama hosts an iftar dinner, the meal that breaks the dawn-to-dusk fast for Muslims during the holy month of Ramadan, in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, Friday, Aug. 13, 2010. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Mourners pay their respects to former Sen. Ted Stevens during funeral services at the Anchorage Baptist Temple on Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010, in Anchorage, Alaska. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
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Julia Lundy (right) and Matt Sky demonstrate Wednesday in front of a proposed Islamic center, including a mosque, two blocks from the World Trade Center site in New York. (Associated Press)
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Pedestrians walk past the 19th century building on Park Place in Manhattan where Muslims plan to build a mosque and cultural center Saturday, Aug.14, 2010, in New York. President Obama says Muslims have the right to build a mosque near ground zero in New York, but he's not saying whether he thinks it's a good idea to do so. (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano)
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Imam Mahdi Bray, executive director of the Muslim American Society's Freedom Foundation, holds up a copy of the U.S. Constitution as he defends the mosque project in New York. (Associated Press)
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Military honor guard carry the casket of former U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens to the All Saints Episcopal Church Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010, in Anchorage, Alaska. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
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Military honor guard carry the casket of former U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens into the All Saints Episcopal Church Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010, in Anchorage, Alaska. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
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Lily Stevens Becker, daughter of former U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens, and her mother, Catherine Stevens, stand outside All Saints Episcopal Church Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010, in Anchorage, Alaska. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
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Mourners pay their respects to former U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens at the All Saints Episcopal Church Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010, in Anchorage, Alaska. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
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Mourners pay their respects to former U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens at the All Saints Episcopal Church Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010, in Anchorage, Alaska. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
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In this image provided by the Miss Universe Organization, Stefania Fernandez, Miss Universe 2009, and Sarodj Bertin, Miss Haiti 2010, arrive at the Miss Universe National Gift Auction to Benefit Nevada Cancer Institute at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada on Saturday, Aug. 14, 2010. The Miss Universe 2010 competition that will air live Aug. 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Miss Universe Organization)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS 'UNWISE' DECISION: Sen. John Cornyn says the "American people will render their verdict" on the New York mosque.
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As a member of the sovereign-citizens movement, James McBride contends the U.S. government has not had authority over citizens for more than a century. (Associated Press)
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This wall helped protect the Jewish neighborhood of Gilo for nine years from the Palestinian village of Beit Jalla. (Associated Press)
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Patriarch Bartholomew I (center), the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians, conducts a service at the Sumela Monastery in Trabzon, northeastern Turkey, on Sunday. Orthodox Christians held a rare service at an ancient monastery in Turkey after the government allowed worship there once a year in a gradual loosening of restrictions on religious expression. (Associated Press)
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In this image made available by International Assistance Mission, Jawed, a 24-year-old Afghan from Panjshir province, the team's cook, one of 10 civilian volunteers killed in Afghanistan on Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010, is shown. The Christian charity IAM said Monday, Aug. 9, 2010 that it had no plans to leave Afghanistan despite the murders of 10 members of its medical aid team and repeated that the organization does not attempt to convert Muslims to Christianity. The 10 team members -- six Americans, two Afghans, one Briton and a German -- were gunned down Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010 after they were accosted by gunmen after finishing a two-week mission providing medical care to impoverished villagers in remote Nuristan province. (AP Photo/International Assistance Mission)
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President Barack Obama hosts an iftar dinner, the meal that breaks the dawn-to-dusk fast for Muslims during the holy month of Ramadan, in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, Friday, Aug. 13, 2010. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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An Israeli border police officer checks the papers of a Palestinian woman, at the Kalandia checkpoint between Jerusalem and the West Bank city of Ramallah, Aug. 13, 2010 as she goes to pray at the Al Aqsa Mosque on the first Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Israel loosened some restrictions on Palestinian movement between the West Bank and Israel during the monthlong Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
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Palestinian men wait an an Israeli checkpoint before crossing from the West Bank town of Bethlehem into Jerusalem on the first Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Aug. 13, 2010. Israel loosened some restrictions on Palestinian movement between the West Bank and Israel during the monthlong Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)
