"In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted"
It's November 12th 2025
A frosty chill has engulfed the campus of a small town American University, and yet a sizeable crowd has huddled together to listen to the speaker on the frosted gravel outside.
Smiling at the gathered students, the young father of two sits on a small dais, microphone in hand, and invites the young people to ask questions.
Wearing a T-shirt and jeans, the young Imam explains that in Islam, only a man and a woman can marry. He argues, too, that all life is sacred and all unborn babies are innocent, regardless of any tragedy or violence that may have led to the conception. The unborn is a beloved Child Of God.
All of a sudden, bullets rip through the crowd. The young Imam has been shot dead.
The world is stunned into silence, when it emerges a right wing activist was behind the fatal assassination.
Calls for tolerance and cries of Islamophobia echo in headlines. The face of the Imam is painted on walls. Eulogies and obituaries beatify his name in column inches around the world. Nations condemned America.
Politicians make strident speeches, emergency legislation is passed and right wing organisations are proscribed as terrorist. Knees are taken. Black arm bands appear on the sporting strips at every televised event. Everybody is clear that an atrocity has taken place.
Nobody questions whether the young Imam's message was extreme. An outpouring of grief for the Muslim community floods every school, public institution and Parliament.
Muslims take to the streets calling for justice.
Day after day the TV news hosts panel discussions all agreeing that such violent intolerance that left a young religious man with orphaned babies is an atrocity that must never be repeated.
Yet…
This is not how most of the world has reacted to the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
And it is not the first time Two Tier Religious Tolerance has risen its hypocritical head.
Remember the campaigns to become the First Minister of Scotland in 2023, when Kate Forbes came under sustained attack due to her membership of the Free Church Of Scotland, an evangelical denomination with socially conservative views on same sex marriage and opposition to most forms of abortion?
She lost the election to Humza Yousaf. A practicing Muslim.
Remember, too, former Liberal Democrat Leader Tim Farron, being constantly harried over his positions on gay sex. In 2018, he publicly expressed regret over his previous assertions that he did not consider homosexual sex to be sinful, saying he felt under pressure from his party which led him to "foolishly and wrongly" make a statement "that was not right".
The year before he had resigned, saying he was "torn between living as a faithful Christian and serving as a political leader".
The message is clear.
Christians should not have any place in public life. The Church must be forced to renounce its Holy Book at the whim of David Cameron. And publicly defending one's faith risks becoming an executionable offence.
And yet this is in the United Kingdom, whose Sovereign remains the Head of the Church, whose democracy, mores, laws and social fabric is built upon The Bible.
And in America, laudably far more vocal about Christianity, where Presidents may end addresses saying God Bless the United States and whose Declaration of Independence and the Pledge of Allegiance contain references to God.
If Christians are being persecuted in Christendom, where can they be safe?
Two Tier Religious (In)Tolerance needs to be a matter of urgent debate.
One of the things about the Fabians and those like them is a callousness about human life. Their eugenicist ideology seems to be the polar opposite of Christianity and its values. When so many people gloat over the killing of a young husband and father, there is something very cruel and dark about them.
Alex, I feel a growing sense of evil in the world and drawn to the church, but which church? So many church leaders are great at virtue signaling - "refugees welcome, shut up racists" - but when it comes to grooming gangs or the dangers some migrants can pose which you have written about so well, they turn away from the victims of crime. They remind me of the Pharisee in the story of the Good Samaritan. Where are the church leaders whose compassion is neither selective nor performative but rooted in honesty?
It is clear being white and Christian is totally unacceptable. How we change that I do not know, but we Caucasians are all at risk of being deleted if we do not stop the rot NOW… I fear we have to put our usual accepting natures to one side, maybe even treating the loony lefties and Islamists the way they treat us. I know the old adage an eye for an eye just leaves us all blind, but violence is the only language they understand - they’re too stupid to be able to reason with words and in an adult manner.