“ To believing Muslims, [Shariah] is something deeper and higher, infused with moral and metaphysical purpose. At its core, [it] represents the idea that all human beings — and all human governments — are subject to justice under the law. […] For many Muslims today, living in corrupt autocracies, the call for Shariah is not a call for sexism, obscurantism or savage punishment but for an Islamic version of what the West considers its most prized principle of political justice: the rule of law.The Sway of the Scholars.
