Following right after "Hear, O Israel, the Lord your God, the Lord is one."

"The compassionate, the merciful" is, of course, a reference to the invocation at the beginning of every chapter of the Qur'an except one: Bismillah al-Rahman al-Rahim, "In the name of Allah, the compassionate, the merciful."

Making sure everyone feels included -- terrific. But the prayer indicates yet again that there is little general awareness of the reasons why the term [1] "Judeo-Christian-Islamic values" is a misnomer.