Fearing Elements Of Sharia Is Rational, Not Islamophobic

     Almost 25 per cent of the world population, by some estimates, follows Islam. Many people, myself included, could care less what a person believes or practices, as long as it does not hurt others. Islam as a religion deserves the same protections and rights as any other religion. Islam as a political and economic system that seeks domination through jihad and the implementation of sharia as the only rule of law is the recipe for endless war, oppression, and not the paradise that some insist sharia brings.
      Minority religions under sharia are delegated to second class status, with the option to convert, die, or pay special taxes. Certain religions are not even offered these options, and the adherents of those religions are receiving the genocidal hell that a group like ISIS provides. Yazidis, not afforded any protections under Islam, has seen its community devastated by genocide, and the rape and sexual enslavement of Yazidi girls and young women. The Baha'i in Iran are severely persecuted, as it is a religion the Iranian theocracy deny has legitimacy under Islam.
       When some Muslims insist sharia would be good for all, they never question why non Muslims would want to exist under a permanent state of inferiority and vulnerability.
         In places where sharia is supposedly implemented, there are many flaws to the political and economic system. Iran, Saudi, and other oil rich Islamic nations would collapse if not for the good fortune of having trillions of dollars of oil wealth under their feet. In poor nations where sharia has been implemented, like Afghanistan under the Taliban, or those that lived or still live under ISIS rule or under the thumb of another Islamist group, cruelty, arbitrary punishment, and torture are the norm.
         Sharia is like a lot of ideas that may be good in theory, but horrible in practice if fully implemented.
A lot of suffering occurs when blasphemy laws, arbitrary laws, religious police, are established. Often cruel leaders get rewarded, and the vulnerable are helpless to the capricious whims of their religious rulers.
          It is one thing to fight for the right of Muslims to practice freely their religion(which is something denied non Muslim people living in many Islamic lands), but it is quite another thing to passively accept the full implementation of sharia and the struggle to implement sharia through jihad.