http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GH19Ak02.html
It's not about Islamic rule?
I think you are incorrect about this.
That is exactly what it's about.
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Sami Moubayed is a Syrian political analyst.
A Syrian political analyist pontificating about Sharia law.
That doesn't sound very empirical to me.
Do you have an empirical source for your assertions, or are you truly the troll that you are coming across as?