In 1992, Islamist militants gunned down Egyptian secularist and sharia law opponent Farag Foda. Blumner describes herself as an atheist, a secularist and a liberal. Khoury's electoral popularity was due in part to his staunch secularist and nationalist policies. He was a critic of the mainstream Indian nationalist and secularist Indian National Congress. It is a socialist, secularist and Arab nationalist party founded in April 2011. Such a world is not "chol", but "chiloni", not secular, but secularist. She is an atheist and a secularist. These influences him to various feminist, democratic, and secularist political stances. Gaddafi rejected the secularist approach to Arab nationalism that had been pervasive in Syria. He describes his political views as "social democratic" and his religious views as "extreme secularist". Shastri was a secularist who refused to mix religion with politics. Turkey and Tunisia are countries with overwhelmingly Muslim populations that enforce secularist practices by law. While surely a secularist, he did not appear anti-religious. The secularist spirit of his book greatly angered both Anglicans and French Catholics. Segments of the Bengali elite supported Mustafa Kemal Ataturk's secularist forces.