Five daily prayers are one of the pillars of Islam. The five pillars of Islam, then, are the five practices that Muslims perform to express their religious identity and signal their participation in the larger community. What would be called “Orthodox” in the diaspora includes what is commonly called dati (“religious”) or Haredi (“ultra-Orthodox”) in Israel. It’s the same phrase Gingrich used a week ago: “It is simply grotesque to erect a mosque at the site of the most visible and powerful symbol of the horrible consequences of radical Islamist ideology.” The same phrase Sarah Palin used: “To build a mosque at Ground Zero is a stab in the heart of the families of the innocent victims of those horrific attacks.” The same phrase Rudy Giuliani used when he called it “a mosque that’s in exactly the wrong place.” The same phrase Minnesota Gov. Throughout the Bible, Israelites are called God’s chosen people. Without these people in the demographics, the Muslim population will only be as low as 2.3% of the whole population of Burma, according to the census conducted by the Burmese Government. It further recommended Home Rule or independent government separate from India or the status of dominion.

Between the 11th and 15th centuries Japanese government was in the hands of three interdependent power blocs: the court, the aristocracy, and the religious establishments, although there is some debate as to whether the various religious groups were ever able to present a united front, or whether they ever had as much political muscle as the other two blocs. In some religions there are many gods. In Buddhism, Buddhas and other enlightened beings are the main focus of honour, comparable to gods in other religions. Now Gingrich and his spokesman are fighting back. It’s particularly rich to see Gingrich and Tyler accuse the imam behind the project, Faisal Abdul Rauf, of radicalism, belligerence, and fomenting terrorism. He says the Declaration of Independence implies that “man must obey an order of justice God Himself has instituted.” On the Web site of their organization, Renewing American Leadership, Gingrich and Tyler proclaim that their mission is “to preserve America’s Judeo-Christian heritage.” And in a speech at the American Enterprise Institute a week ago, Gingrich proudly quoted FDR’s wartime address equating democracy with Christianity.

Not true, says Tyler. After a perilous journey that landed them in New England in December 1620, the 101 Pilgrims who came to America on the Mayflower had shrunk to just 53 men, women and children by the time of the original harvest festival. Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come; thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. The project will be cost around $40,000 dollars. I will not allow anybody to put me in a position where I am seen by any party in the world as an adversary or as an enemy.” At worst, these are the words of a wimp, not a warmonger. The world had been created, in the Slavic view, once and for all, and no new law ought to modify the way of life transmitted by their ancestors. They say it’s being presented as a way to “demonstrate the presence of moderate Muslims in New York” and “serve as a monument to religious tolerance.” The only contrary argument offered is that it’s “an offense to the memory of those killed in the attacks on 9/11 and displays unacceptable insensitivity.” Given the choice between these two arguments, respondents side with the project’s opponents by a margin of 38 to 21 percent.

This is the real argument behind the campaign against the New York community center: It’s Muslim, it’s big, and it’s too close to where a bunch of Muslims killed a bunch of us. Opponents say the project is an offense to the memory of those killed in the attacks on 9/11 and displays unacceptable insensitivity. Do you tend to agree with the supporters, the opponents or do you think they both have a legitimate position? With 9.5 percent unemployment, with a majority of Americans wanting to repeal Obama’s health-care plan, with a majority of Americans favoring Arizona over the Obama administration on immigration, with the majority of Americans opposing a mosque at Ground Zero, with a majority of Americans feeling that the stimulus failed and that the Democratic Party increasingly is the party of job killers, I think that that’s what’s going to be the key this fall. Groening said he named the town after Springfield, Oregon, in an interview, leading people to think the northwestern city was the show’s actual setting. A residence in the town of Veliky Ustyug has been promoted as Ded Moroz’s “home”, and children are encouraged to write letters to him.