Muslims Against the Islamic State

There are religious Muslims who are against the Islamic State for Islamic reasons. Leading Arab Islamic thinkers who stand for this Islamic Laicism (or Islamic Secularism) are the Egyptians Ali Abdarraziq, Nasr Abu Zayd, Jamal al-Banna and Faraj Fodah, the Sudanese-American Abdullahi al-Na'im, and the Saudi Arabian Turki al-Hamad.