[spineeupsenry]

And also, if ruling by other than Sharia does not make them kuffar, then what about those who fight the Muslims while siding with kuffar? And tbh, a lot of these rulers must be kuffar for other reasons (like Ghadaffi was a kafir for trying to change Al Quran, even if he wasn't a kafir for not ruling by Sharia)

2 things need to be understood:

1 the shaikhs fatwa is specifically regarding those rules who arent ruling by shariah. its possible that some rulers are kafir for other reasons. Ghaddafi and assad are examples of this

2 the muslim lands are under extreme pressure to be seen to be doing something to benefit the wests mission so we must take this into account when assessing any country. Some countries behave like they hate islam, while others behave like they are stuck between a rock and a hard place. Examples of the first are syria, uzbekistan and other central asian states, azerbaijan etc. Examples of the second type are turkey, saudi+khaleej, malaysia, indonesia, new north african states (from what we've seen so far) etc.

I propose we leave those which are in the second category and make husnal dhann that they are trying their best inshallah and make dua for them and focus our efforts on the first category, the clearly pure evil states that wish to remove islam from their countries and ruin the people and rain destruction on them