The political leaders are weak in understanding the faith so they succumb to the zealot clerics who controls the faith currently. Its as clear and night and day that freedom of faith is a individuals right.
Religious freedom in Islam
by Dr. Zahid Aziz
No Compulsion in Religion
The Holy Quran altogether excludes compulsion from the sphere of religion. It lays down in the clearest words:
In fact, the Holy Quran is full of statements showing that belief in this or that religion is a person’s own concern, and that he is given the choice of adopting one way or another. If he accepts the truth, it is for his own good, and that, if he sticks to error, it is to his own detriment. Some quotations to this effect are given below:
Any country can implement their own law. But nowhere is stated in the Quran u cant renounce Islam.