Sharia law is growing more popular because when people are cast adrift by the Hurricane of Disbelief, they tend to grab whatever solid foundations or roots are available. Given that Leftist beliefs and nihilist practices have cast adrift a majority of humanity, it is not that hard for any kind of disaster or downturn to rip people away from their roots and foundations, to search the seas for some new home they can attach themselves to. And that new home is Islam and Sharia.

If you tell people that their eternal salvation is dependent on following a certain system, no matter how dreadful, and how medieval, that system is, many will do that — as was certainly the case in the ancient world for many thousands of years.

You would really love reading David Weber’s Off Armagedon’s Reef, Book, given that the story is about human beings successfully using ingenuity and courage to fight against an ancient dominating religion. It’s far more enjoyable than the real world of Islam, of course.

“If everybody jumped of a cliff, would you jump too?”

Sure he would, so long as he had a parachute and the others didn’t. And the others won’t have parachutes because parachutes are too expensive for expendable tools to have a need for.