Islam, Islamophobia, Christophobia, and Jew hatred

This was published by Eugene Veklerov in the American Thinker

If you happen to find yourself in Saudi Arabia driving down the highway toward Mecca, you will eventually encounter a big sign advising you that Mecca is for Muslims only. The other road is “obligatory for non Muslims.”

Here is a reality check to keep in mind when someone issues another condemnation of Islamophobia in the Western World.  Surely, we have plenty of room for improvement, but we are pikers at the game of religious discrimination.

In many Muslim countries, discrimination against Christians and Jews is not just practiced, it is codified into law.  Thus, consider Egypt, which is one of the more secular and moderate countries in the Muslim World with a sizable religious minority of Coptic Christians.  Egyptian law stipulates that a “Muslim man may marry a Christian woman but the opposite is forbidden; and if a Muslim woman does marry a Christian man, both the husband and the wife would be considered adulterers“.  This quotation is drawn verbatim from a UN document.

It is noteworthy that civil, rather than just religious, laws prevent Christian men from marrying Muslim women.  Marrying an Israeli woman is an entirely different matter altogether.  “An Egyptian appeals court upheld a ruling that orders the country’s Interior Ministry to strip the citizenship from Egyptians married to Israeli women” (Associated Press report of June, 2010).

While conversion to Islam is encouraged in Muslim countries, conversion from Islam to another religion is a sin.  And since the legal systems in many Muslim countries are based on Sharia law, such apostasy is also a crime, and we are not talking about the most fanatical countries like Iran, Saudi Arabia or Sudan.   In a widely publicized case, a citizen of now-democratic Afghanistan, Abdul Rahman, was arrested in 2006 for converting to Christianity.  He was threatened with execution but eventually he was released from prison under heavy pressure from Western governments.

Read the rest of the essay, here.

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