legal does not make it okay
“Legal” has nothing to do with what is moral, or practical, or emotionally satisfying.
Only in some fantasy entertained by a megalomaniac would it even contain any internal logic. And those who are caught in this web of fantasy are truly enslaved.
Not to get off-topic, but these seem to be the very characteristics that are integral to the whole concept of Islam - the gratification of wide-ranging fantasies for a very few favored individuals, who maintain their supremacy by threat of deadly force and intimidation of lesser entities.