Consider the following claims: According to Islam, the most sinful reprobate among the faithful is more righteous in the eyes of Allah then the most moral and ethical nonbeliever. That in any dispute between a believer and a nonbeliever the presumption of right is on the side of the believer. And for any believer to have to surrender to or be under the authority of a non-believer is inherently unjust.
Pretty much true? False? Or a gross oversimplification of Islamic doctrines?
I don’t know how you would go about arguing something like this one way or the other. You can quote mine Koran for arguments that the faithful should fight to establish their own just government. And you can also find lots of quotes about how wrong it is to do various things associated with being a rebel (killing, disturbing the peace, stealing, betraying etc) instead of quietly obeying the powers that be.
Of course, the above means that we would expect to find Muslim clerics who argue either way. Depending on personal opinion or on where their salary comes from etc. E.g. the Muslim chaplains in the Tsarist Russian military never had any trouble explaining to soldiers from the Muslim minorities the sheer godliness of taking an oath to the Orthodox dynasty and serving them faithfully.
I think a much better argument could be made for all laws contradicting Shariah being inherently unjust. I.e. regardless of what religious beliefs are held by the warlord of the week in your neighborhood, the law you live by should be Islamic law or else one that is sufficiently similar to it. In practice, if this is not what is happening, then they have to live with it, but the case for trying to change the state of affairs for the “better” should be pretty strong.
The bit where it’s wrong is ‘according to Islam.’ There’s no such thing. Islam is a continuous religion - it’s not all about the Koran; what the chief Imams say goes. And there are different such chief Imams for different types of Islam.
It’s not just about different interpretations of the Koran, or different opinions of different priests and popes and the like - their word is God’s word. Almost the same can be said for the Pope, but non-Catholics are not expected to take what he says as infallible either.