yeah, cause Muslims are world renown for their peaceful take overs.....
In case you missed it, that was sarcasm
Some of the very people who ruled us had sex with monkeys (Yazid did this for example) and didn't have any fear of God. This was the people conquering lands and causing wars.
We never a had a true theocracy since Imam Hassan (a) had to do a treaty with Mauwiya till the revolution of Iran. Iran is also a theocracy but it's imperfect, it doesn't mean the clerics there have interpreted Islam correctly.
And the interpretation and changing people mind's about human rights, is essential, for us to implement a just Islamic government.
In the hadiths you will find for every x teaching in hadiths, there is negation of x in some other hadith. Nothing is there without the negation.
The Quran is to be interpreted with help of ahadith but not at the mercy of them. And ilmel rijaal has been proven in time, to be conjecture, and not knowledge of people. Quran also showed reputation is unreliable and so this to me is no suprise.
We did wrong through out history, and still have not interpreted Islam correctly. But we still have right to try do so, and to try to implement government with our best interpretation of Islam that we know.