In discussions of Islam one calls to mind the life we have as Christians or as secularists in a society created largely by Christians. We not only have the blessings of Jesus but we have individual freedom and equality before the law. Things are different for those who follow Islamic law, sharia. Lacking in freedom and equality they are bounded by a totalitarianism that reaches into their family and community and into their economic and political life. The law even causes setbacks in the growth of capital of ordinary Muslims-but not of governments, and this imbalance sets the scene for...