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

There are no globalized, youth-led, grassroots social movements advocating for democratic culture across Muslim-majority societies. There is no equivalent of Al-Qaeda without the terrorism.

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

It's not always the case that Muslims have been theocrats.

I'm a progressive. What I find is that a subsection within the left that instead of standing for consistency in progressive values, so feminism as applied to mainstream society, as well as within minority communities, gay rights to mainstream society as well as within minority communities.

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

Preying on the grievances of disaffected young men is the bedrock of Islamism.