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Would Someone Mention the Khalafah or Sharia Law in this Back and Forth?

Reza Aslan wrote a book he titled, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth - A book many Christians including myself feel is blasphemous.  Aslan comes off as an intellectual, while criticizing comedian Bill Maher and CNN Hosts, but he misses some pretty easy facts. First off, nobody mentioned the Caliphate (Khalafah) in this back and forth. Sharia law was brought up briefly, but easily ignored with this argument of individuality, political forces which have nothing to do with religion or geographical dissimilarities between religious practices. What Reza Aslan fails to realize is that many of the countries we are talking about are theocracies, and controlled by an Imam or a religious autocracy. He uses feminism as a way to dissuade the hosts from thinking negatively about Islamic Countries, and he tries to suggest that countries are not Muslim, people are . . . but doesn't concede that people are acting together with their governments and within radical Islam