41.   Muslim nations, too, including Pakistan, Egypt, Jordan and Indonesia, have sought for portions of the document concerning abortion to be rewritten.

42.   Muslim nations are right to be wary of groups that might impose dictatorships if they reached power.

43.   Now comes the Christian and secular United States wanting to use the Muslim nation of Pakistan to stage a war against Muslims in neighboring Afghanistan.

44.   Nor has it accepted the right of Muslim nations to offer assistance to them.

45.   Of particular importance among Muslim nations are the three that have recognized the Taliban as legitimate rulers, the only countries in the world to do so.

46.   Now as fundamentalist attitudes in this overwhelmingly Muslim nation harden amid the continuing bombing campaign against Afghanistan, Christians find themselves in the cross hairs, some say.

47.   Pakistan, another Muslim nation, was among the first to align itself with the United States in its war against Afghanistan.

48.   Powell acknowledged that the change could antagonize certain Muslim nations whose support the United States seeks in its war against the Taliban and al-Qaida in Afghanistan.

49.   Saudi Arabia has been somewhat lukewarm publicly, especially toward the American attacks on a Muslim nation, although both sides say there is cooperation.

50.   Several million Coptic Orthodox live quietly amid the predominantly Muslim nation.