It shows that he was a great secular leader, among other things.
These large establishments are controlled by prominent religious and secular leaders.
General Musharraf's reputation as a more secular leader has not helped him with religious groups.
Religious fervor is exploited by secular leaders to support war and terrorism.
A number of other religious and secular leaders owned land or rights in the village.
Yet there are some secular leaders who fear that once the Islamists have a foot in the door, they will kick it down.
Within a few months he had gathered 85 leaders of Sunni groups across Iraq, secular and religious.
Even today, Iran's few remaining secular democratic leaders remain marginalized.
They chose to place their support behind me, a secular leader.
So the religious leaders and the secular conservative leaders came together.