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there isn't a real theocratic structure in Islam the way there is in Christianity/Judaism

There is a theocratic structure in only a few denominations of Christianity: Catholicism (which is quite large, obviously) and a good number of other orthodox churches, Anglicanism/Episcopalianism, and Lutheranism -- maybe Methodism. I don't believe that Judaism has a hierarchical structure at all.

It may seem that there is are a few "universal" spokespeople in England, where I imagine that the vast majority of Christians are Anglican or Catholic, but go up to Scotland and ask the Presbyterians about it, and I bet you'll get the same feeling about religious spokespeople from them as from the Muslims where you are. A good portion of common American Christian denominations are the same way, notably baptists, which is the largest denomination in the US (although that's really being changed by the Southern Baptist Convention). And now I'm waaay off topic.
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