He offered to negotiate with Syria and its Lebanese Muslim allies for an end to the country's 15-year civil war.

A major argument against taking military action has been fear that a consequent inflaming of radical passions in the region could destabilize our Muslim allies.

Therefore, it is expected that that Syria will encourage its Muslim allies to go along with the pact.

Counting the 5,000 followers of his Muslim allies, Baldwin's combined army may have been as large as 10,700 men.

Relations with Turkey, an important Muslim ally, deteriorated severely.

Azerbaijan is much bigger, far richer and backed by its Muslim ally, Turkey.

But we cannot succeed without Muslim allies.

The nation nearly all of them had actually come from remained, inexplicably, almost the only Muslim ally the Christian superpower had in that region.

It would enable us to gather Muslim allies in a cause that will bring as much benefit to them as it does to us.

So why not offer some economic nourishment to America's few Muslim allies?