If fanatics who believe Muslim women should be imprisoned in their homes and gay people should be killed are insulted by my arguments, I don't resile from it.
Sophisticated instruments which were to make possible the European voyages of discovery, such as the astrolabe , the quadrant, and good navigational maps, were also developed by Muslims.
The Kuwaiti parliament, which had only functioned very briefly and ineffectually before, was reconvened and the emir backed the enfranchisement of women.
Amid continuing tensions in the Central African Republic, rival Christian and Muslim militias in one part of the capital Bangui have declared a truce and shaken hands in public.