1.   A respected Muslim scholar, Nurcholis Madjid, could emerge as a compromise candidate.

2.   According to Muslim scholars, the country with the largest number of Muslims is Indonesia, followed by Pakistan, Bangladesh, and India.

3.   But today, Muslim scholars universally say that Ishmael is the son Abraham takes to the mountain, and that the incident takes place in Mecca.

4.   But with each news conference or leak about the cockpit tapes, Muslim scholars note, comes more speculation and more stereotypes.

5.   In another Bangalore neighborhood, another Muslim businessman, Syed Afzal, had been quick to bow to the order laid out by the Ulemas, or Muslim scholars.

6.   In the Muslim world, it seems that Osama bin Laden is now a fractured idol, and many Muslim scholars criticize him.

7.   Islamic law consists of the Quran, the sayings of the prophet Muhammad and centuries of interpretation by Muslim scholars and judges.

8.   Mainstream Muslim scholars say that jihad refers primarily to the struggle for inner purity in the believer, not to violence.

9.   Muslim scholars insist that normative Islam does not teach that, but some group apparently has.

10.   Muslim religious scholars unanimously condemn the attack.