One thing worth noting up front, in many Muslim circles, anyone who isn’t Muslim is casually labeled either a pagan or a “Christian.” Europeans and Americans are especially treated as Christians by default, regardless of what they actually believe or practice. That framing is doing a lot of work here. Stalin was a militant atheist who closed churches, persecuted clergy, and promoted state atheism. Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge were explicit atheists who targeted Buddhist monks and religious practice. Hitler was baptized Catholic but rejected core Christian doctrines; he promoted a racialized “Positive Christianity” that fit Nazi ideology and was hostile to the churches. Calling them Christians is historically false.Leopold II is the clearest case of a confessed Catholic who did not live as one. He treated the Congo as private property, ran a system of forced labor and mutilation for rubber profits, and acted according to power and greed, not the biblical commands against murder, theft, and oppression. Professing the faith while ignoring its moral demands is hypocrisy; it doesn’t make the faith itself responsible. Trump identifies as Christian. The hostility toward him in posts like this tracks more with his opposition to the Iranian regime and groups like Hamas than with any serious theological claim. – at Ikeja, Nigeria