If we look at Abdel Nasser in Egypt as an Arab leader, he was secular.

After much soul searching I was able to renounce my past Islamist ideology, challenging everything I was once prepared to die for.

I can now say that the more I learnt about Islam, the more tolerant I became.

Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.

Within our lifetime, we can remember a time when Islamism wasn't the dominant form of discourse or the aim should be to minimise the absolutists within any religious community and contain them.

If we look at Abdel Nasser in Egypt as an Arab leader, he was secular.

I'm yet to discover any form of theocracy that isn't homophobic, that isn't bigoted to the out group.