Sallow
The Big Bad Wolf.
It's not unique with Muslim theology.
You forget about the Dark Ages..and Kings like Charlemange? Or the 1930s and the Nazi Movement? Or the Christian Coalition?
Israel is a Jewish state..it's not secular.
Almost all religions seek some hand in governance.
My comments were directed (although not explicitly stated so), to the here and now. The Dark Ages, Charlemange, 1930s and the Nazi Movement and the Christian Coalition, at least in the West, are past tense. I can't really imagine a single North American or Western European nation deciding to implement a theocracy.
Speaking to the here and now, what Westerners are largely not taking away from the theocratic Crusades (falsely described as the Arab Spring) sweeping the Middle East is that fundamentalist islamist social mores and sharia are viewed as the preferred societal construct as opposed to Western values of equality under the law, separation of church and state, rule of law, and principles whereby the rights of the few are not usurped by the will of the majority. I just find it remarkable that Moslems by and large want to be ruled by fundamentalist Islamist regimes, this, in spite of their propensity for social inequities, economic malaise, denigration of religious / secular minorities and gender apartheid!
Try looking at the concept of "Separation of Church and State" as a Christian concept.
Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's, and unto God, what is God's. Caesar has no Patent on Conscience.
That never was a Christian concept.
Shortly after the fall of the Roman Empire..Christians ran governments.
Thus began the Dark Ages.