The left is always, but particularly in the era of Donald Trump, wailing over white Christian \u201csupremacy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jeremy Scahill, writing months before the election of 2016 in The Intercept, <\/em>is representative of this line of (un-)thinking. Scahill focuses specifically on Mike Pence, who would become the Vice President:<\/p>\n \u201cPence\u2019s ascent to the second most powerful position in the U.S. government is a tremendous coup for the radical religious right.\u00a0 Pence\u2014and his fellow Christian supremacist militants\u2014would not have been able to win the White House on their own.\u201d<\/p>\n Scahill continues, referring to Pence as one of the \u201cmost prized warriors\u201d of \u201ca cabal of vicious zealots\u201d that has \u201clong craved an extremist Christian theocracy [.]\u201d<\/p>\n This patent nonsense is as laughable as it is dishonest.\u00a0 Leftists\u2019 anti-Christian bigotry is worth raising here only because it gives the rest of us a sense of the gulf separating their fantasy world from the real one.\u00a0 More exactly, while leftists obsess over \u201cChristian supremacy\u201d in America whenever a confessing Christian is elected to office, a Chick-Filet opens in a new location, or a Christian baker refuses to bake a cake for a gay wedding, they remain utterly silent as Christians throughout the Third World suffer real<\/em> oppression at the hands of non-Christians.<\/p>\n Western leftists don\u2019t know a damn thing about oppression, religious or otherwise.\u00a0 Or, if they do, to judge from their sheer silence, they don\u2019t act like it.<\/p>\n Leftists lamenting \u201cChristian supremacy\u201d utter not a peep about the endemic anti-<\/em>Christian oppression around the world.\u00a0 According to such Christian advocacy groups as Open Doors, an organization expressly designed for the purpose of \u201cserving persecuted Christians\u201d globally, over four out of five of the worst places for Christians (and other religious minorities) are Islamic-dominated.<\/p>\n European and American leftists prefer not to attend to the case of Indonesian citizen Abraham Ben Moses, formerly known by the Islamic name, Saifuddin Ibrahim, given to him by his family when he was born.\u00a0 Moses, 53, converted to Christianity.\u00a0 Since then, he regularly (and quite courageously) debates with Muslims.<\/p>\n But it is when Abraham was captured on video debating with his Islamic taxi cab driver and asking him to affirm Christ that life took a wrong turn for him. The video went viral.\u00a0 Muhammadiyah, Indonesia\u2019s second largest Islamic organization, filed a complaint and Abraham was arrested by the authorities.<\/p>\n It should send shivers down the spines of both proponents and opponents of so-called \u201chate crime\u201d legislation in the West knowing that Abraham was charged with \u201cintentionally spread[ing] information intended to incite hatred against an individual, group and society based upon religion.\u201d<\/p>\n He was ordered to pay a handsome fine, one far beyond his means to pay.\u00a0 In lieu of this fine, Abraham was sentenced to one month in prison\u2014significantly shorter, thankfully, than the five year term sought by prosecutors.<\/p>\n Still, Abraham is appealing it.<\/p>\n While he was imprisoned, his wife gave birth to their child.<\/p>\n The Intercept <\/em>is sure that if a Bible-believing Christian like Mike Pence becomes Vice President of the United States, then this will transform the federal government into a \u201cChristian supremacist\u201d theocracy.\u00a0 Meanwhile, the governments of other lands actually are being turned into theocracies\u2014but of the non<\/em>-Christian, indeed, the anti<\/em>-Christian, sort.<\/p>\n Take, for example, the African country of Comoros<\/a>, which recently declared itself, officially, an Islamic nation.\u00a0 A constitutional clause establishing a separation of religion and the state has just been removed and the power and term of Comoros\u2019 president extended.\u00a0 The fear of Christians and other religious minorities that they will be more under fire now than ever before is justified.\u00a0 Not only does Comoros\u2019 constitution now explicitly assert that \u201cthe state\u201d of Comoros \u201cdraws from this religion the principles and rules of Sunnite observance.\u201d According to Voice of the Martyrs <\/em>(VOM): <\/em>\u201cDuring his campaign, President Azali Assoumani [whose power has just been further consolidated] promised that, if approved, his government would be imposing tougher measures on any citizens who are not Sunni Muslim.\u201d<\/p>\n Christians, composing but two percent of the nation\u2019s population, are sitting ducks for the 95 percent Sunni Muslim majority.<\/p>\n