Say "deeply held beliefs" instead of "Islam". So do I. So did Rosa Parks. Or countless conscientous objectors. And you? Is there nothing you believe in and are prepared to break the law of the secular state for?

Sure. We could make lists, and I bet we would agree on most of the points.

But I don't reject the authority of the state which governs the territory in which I live. If I did, I would be a revolutionary, an anarchist, or a libertarian.

People have a right to be those things, and they have a right to agitate for the overthrow of the state, but when their activities fall outside the law, they are repressed by the state. I consider this legitimate, to the degree that I consider any given state to be legitimate. I am not a revolutionary in the context of France.

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II}