All experts on this topic agree he was a secular leader and that his islamism was a pretext Your claim that secularism was a pretext is not supported by any reliable source of which I am aware If you have one please cite it and we can add a sentence or two to the article indicating that one source thinks otherwise And you probably already know this but Arab is not the same as Muslim Anyway you still haven t defended your change to the article which had nothing to do with this discussion the discussion about Saddam s islamism is engaging perhaps but irrelevant to the change you were making