Islam in the Middle East is in a shit-storm

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Just because a country is 99% muslim, does not mean you can implement Sharia law.  It's not an Islamic state if everyone there is not following Islam. It's a country where a vast majority is Muslim. That's what I think the Islamic states don't see.You are throwing away that 1% of the population's basic human rights to believe what they want to believe. That is wrong.

First off,  when we think of Shariah Law, we think of the killings, and the stonings, etc. That is not all of it. There are a lot of attributes that you could in fact apply to modern day society which could make it better.

A Shariah government would work great if it was in a country where the population was 100% Muslim and understood the reasonings of Shariah Law. If you acknowledge their is an afterlife and believe in Islam, then and only then does Shariah Law make sense and is applicable.

That is in an ideal world, where people are perfect. In the real world, some countries will never be 100% Muslim.

That is the problem. And those who are 100% currentley, are either a collapsed state (Somalia) or under a tyrannic regime. We see these heinous news stories about women being killed for showing their ankles, or something completely miniscule. That is not Islam. That is the tyranny that has plagued the Middle East and Asia for the last 50 years. That is the tyrants abusing Islam for their own personal gains.

That being said, just because you don't follow Islam, it's not a free pass to do whatever you please. Which is why there is the secular system. It's a universal punishment system that applies to everyone. The problem that many religious extremists(of all religions) see is that the punishments are getting less and less harsh. But that is arbitrary. Someone's idea of harsh may be different than my idea of harsh.

The problem that Islamic states have currently(because we don't know how well or how poor they were in the past or the future) is that they think people cannot think for themselves. Well this is true when people are not educated. Which can be blamed on these states that don't prioritize education first, and have terrible school systems. But, when people are educated they make educated decisions, surprising I know. When you don't educate your people, you end up with uneducated leaders for the future. Additionally, people base everything off of emotion, rather than rationality, and our only voice of reasoning is our common sense(which isn't that reliable). That is the predicament that the Islamic states are currently in.

This is why no one with half a brain who is Muslim, and if by some miracle got elected president; would  implement Shariah law in America. Because rationally it does not make sense. When you force someone to follow your religious code, you are taking away that person's right to make his or her own choices. It's going against everything America stands for.Why haven't we gone back to the guillotine like good ol' medieval England? It's the same rationale. Just because we could have a Muslim leader in the future, does not mean we will be stoning every criminal. Hopefully, we still have the secular system.
 
When you implement Shariah law where everyone is not Muslim, you are throwing away human rights. The most essential part of human rights is the luxury to believe what you believe, do what you want, and think what you think. You can do anything as long as it does not harm others. I can't stress this enough.

Hopefully the situation in the Islamic world works out because it is definitively a system that can work. But the only place it can work is in an Islamic state where everyone is a Muslim. All you need to do is educate everyone. Educate your women, educate your children, and educate your leaders. But for the time being, secular law does work.