31.   But let us not be romantic about the Muslim world, where primogeniture was proved again, this time in Damascus.

32.   But not until Friday had any Western government leader taken the message to where it counts most, a country at the heart of the Muslim world.

33.   But many educated Bangladeshis also fear that the affair may be used in the West to promote broader anxieties about the Muslim world.

34.   But the alliance faces serious opposition in the Muslim world.

35.   But the days when Muslim women could be kept housebound, cosseted and remote from society are long gone in Morocco and most other parts of the Muslim world.

36.   But the days when Muslim women could be kept housebound, cosseted and remote from society are long gone in most parts of the Muslim world.

37.   But the idea of U.S. strikes on Afghanistan still stirs deep misgivings in the Muslim world.

38.   But throughout most of the Muslim world, the tension between Islam and modernity remains profound.

39.   But we have failed utterly to communicate those values to the dispossessed of the Muslim world.

40.   By insisting that fundamentalists have misinterpreted the Koran, they seek to downplay the widespread support for fundamentalism in the Muslim world.