1.   Both sides understand that such a return would quickly lead to creation of a Muslim majority and to the end of the Jewish state.

2.   But some rules set apart the Muslim majority, and it is primarily the women who are affected.

3.   In a gesture to his Muslim majority, however, he has condemned the war as a futile exercise that is killing innocent civilians.

4.   In the complicated and emotional give-and-take of Partition, India, which is predominantly Hindu, ended up with Kashmir, which has a Muslim majority.

5.   Jammu is roughly two-thirds Hindu, though there are districts with a large Muslim majority.

6.   Kashmir, the one region with a Muslim majority, must be handled sensitively.

7.   Kashmir, which has a Muslim majority, was made part of predominantly Hindu India rather than Islamic Pakistan.

8.   Large areas both in the northwest and the east of British India had Muslim majorities.

9.   Numerous member nations in the Middle East and Africa with Muslim majorities discriminate against women in various ways, though seldom so totally as the Taliban does.

10.   Outsiders often blame the decline on persecution by the Muslim majority.