...No, what I'm saying is that if you think it's permissible or fine to rule with non-Islamic laws, then you're not a Muslim. If this 'freedom' you are talking about is freedom to join communist parties, buy and sell alcoholic beverages, and propagate atheism, then yes, this freedom is unattainable except by removing the last vestiges of the Imam-worship that some people call Islam mistakenly from Iran.