I think Mrs. Leno is trying to say that if Islam is in the right hands, it would work. Its kind of like the left believing communism in the right hands will work.
Well, in a sense, *any* system will work if all the participants go along with it willingly. The problem isn’t the system(s). The problem is humanity. It’s just unperfectable, simple as that. We’ll all be better off when people realize that you can’t judge a system by how well it would work if humans were so perfect as to not need it anyway. You judge a system by how well it works WITHOUT 100% participation.