"[B]oth the examples of the Prophet and Muslim Tradition

 allow for if not encourage a political culture according to which Muslims pursue political arrangements that directly serve their interests even as they indirectly serve the interests of those whose actions may contravene the rules and values of Islam. Indeed, far from constituting a theocratic commitment to societal homogenization, Islam is quite at home with negotiated political arrangements that accommodate religious and ideological pluralism.

-Islam and the Blackamerican: Looking toward the Third Resurrection, pg. 141