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...(Read Full Post)