The good news for me and most investors is that making an iron-clad declaration for either secular bull or bear camp at this juncture is not necessary.
But inside Syria some of the signatories of the Damascus Declaration, an alliance of secular Syrians, Kurds and Islamists who got together in 2005, have been speaking out and are better known.
The declaration stated that Sudan should be a secular state or, failing this, that the south should be able to exercise the right of self-determination.