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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?
No, I don't have empirical evidence. I have never been to Iraq. I was once in Saudi Arabia.
The information I have comes from news sources.