11.   Beers became undersecretary of state last month to help sell the U.S. war to the Islamic world.

12.   A generation after the revolution, Iranian women are by far the most politically active in the Persian Gulf and are among the most empowered in the Islamic world.

13.   Administration officials have expressed frustration that the United States is losing public support for the war on terrorism, especially in the Islamic world.

14.   Alas, the Islamic world is not burdened with examples of good government, let alone democracy.

15.   Al Mustunsariyeh, I am told, is the oldest school in all of the Islamic world.

16.   All over the Islamic world, charities have helped to win both admiration and obligation for particular Islamic views.

17.   Bush talked in general terms of aiding the developing world, and particularly the Islamic world, to achieve both economic and educational development.

18.   Bush spent much of the weekend talking to world leaders, including some in the Islamic world.

19.   But Gore argued that there were underlying forces in the Islamic world that were encouraging anti-American sentiment and breeding terrorism that the United States urgently needed to address.

20.   But it could have been a Palestinian father, and he could have been talking about a daughter, which is something new in the Islamic world.