If issues are only seen through a partisan lens, you’ll miss the fingerprints besmirching them.

There’s the issue of billions in alleged fraud perpetrated by Islamic Somalis in Minneapolis ripping off taxpayers through phony Medicaid and autism claims. As Democrat Governor Tim Walz curries favor with this burgeoning voting bloc led by Ilhan Ohmar, the classically sarcastic Babylon Bee ran a headline saying how city officials are considering a name change for the Minnesota Vikings to the Somali Pirates.

There’s the issue of Zohran Mamdani assuming the mayor’s office in NYC. A leading pro-regime Iranian newspaper gloating with approval for Mamdani’s election wrote a front-page headline saying, “America Against America.” The newspaper ironically got that right: Islam and America are incompatible with and opposed to each other.

There’s the issue of “Islamification” versus Islamophobia. Islam’s 100 year plan for America is going according to schedule. So, is the problem about Islamophobia in America or Islamification of America?

There’s the issue of the Democrats’ fraud-laced fascist (Un)affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare). I say “Democrats” for they were the ones who passed it into law in 2010 without one Republican vote. I say “fraud-laced” because, just for starters, 94 million in taxpayer-funded subsidies were sent to health insurance companies for dead people, not mention living millionaires manipulating the subsidy system to get taxpayer support for their premiums.

I say “unaffordable” because as more government subsidies are demanded, what does that say about “affordability?” I say “fascist” because Democrats demand increased subsidies for corporations to cover the health care premiums as the private health care providers come under the thumbscrews of the government beast. Can you get any more fascist in health care than Obamacare contrived by and for insurance companies in cahoots with Democrat politicians?

Instead, remove the dirty hands of government bureaucracy controlling it, restore transparency, open the free market up, and let the states compete.

For now, democratic fascism Obamacare-style is as controlling as Mamdani’s democratic socialism. They’re both on the Left and unmistakably totalitarian. What’s more, the totalitarian fingerprints of fascism and socialism are on the same “left” hand as Islam especially in their mutual hatred of Judaism and Christianity. The massacre of Jews on Bondi Beach in “gun-controlled” Australia proved to be a dreadful case in point.

This, in turn, gets to an issue off the media’s radar screen. Trevyon Henderson – though not a Bill, but a Patriot, as in New England Patriot – wore a pair of one-of-a-kind cleats in a game recently. His cleats said, “Pray for Persecuted Christians,” with images of mourners knelt at the graves of martyred Christians. Henderson drew attention to the dire situation for Christians especially in Nigeria, like Rev. Ezekiel Dachomo. Despite Islamic jihadists seeking to assassinate him, he remains boldly outspoken about his faith and advocating for the persecuted.

You can watch him on You Tube conducting a funeral standing in a mass grave of the martyred, crying out, “I’m calling on President Trump of America to please save our lives in Nigeria… I’m calling on his attention to Nigeria. Christians are being massacred. They claim Muslims, too, are being killed, but the question is, they’re being killed by whom? By Muslims, of course!”

The stats are staggering: 18,000 churches burned since 2009. 7000 killed in 2025 alone with some estimates over 100,000 killed since 2009 and five million displaced since 2009.

Thankfully President Trump reinstated Nigeria to the status of Country of Particular Concern (CPC) revoked under the Biden administration. Totalitarianism, no matter how slice it -Islamic, fascistic or socialistic – seeks to snuff out Christianity. Our Constitution was meant to preserve and protect it, as well as the liberty to personally reject it.

The Rev. Mel McGinnis is a Frewsburg resident.