Response to Laura Mayo

I have lots of questions about Laura Mayo's article What if white Christians had a more realistic image of Jesus, a dark-skinned, religious-minority refugee?

• How does Natifa know that the man who attacked her is a Christian?  Or is Natifa making the mistake common among people who come from a non-Christian country of assuming all Americans are Christians and judging Christianity accordingly?  If the man is a Christian, what church does he go to?  Is he representative of that church's membership as a whole?
• How many Christians does Natifa encounter in a day?  How many mistreat her?  We are told to not judge Islam by the actions of its extremists (such as those who flew the airplanes into the twin towers and those who routinely persecute and kill Christians in many countries).  Is the author willing to extend the same courtesy to conservative Christians (who appear to be the target of her displeasure) and refrain from judging them by the actions of extremists who call themselves Christian?
• If Natifa were a young white woman wearing a MAGA hat who was attacked by a member of Antifa who claimed to be Christian, would the author feel the same shame on her behalf and the same need to apologize to her?  Would she want her to be safe and feel welcome?
• The author appears to think that people react against Muslims exclusively because of their skin color.  Does she think that there are no other rational grounds for criticizing their beliefs and lifestyle?  Can one criticize Islam (say by pointing out that sharia law is strongly anti-woman, anti-Semitic, anti-Christian and anti-LGBTQ) and not be accused of Islamophobia?
• If the Byzantines (who had similar features to the Jews of Jesus' day) were the first to depict Jesus as white, should we not assume that their reason for doing so had nothing to do with race?  Would it not be more plausible to believe that Jesus' whiteness was a way of portraying his sinlessness (per the Psalms and other passages)?  If so, are European Christians to be blamed for adopting it as a standard in their own portrayals of Jesus?
• The author criticizes "the dominant Christian" culture for twisting the story of Jesus to justify their beliefs and lifestyle.  Is she not also doing the same kind of twisting when she declares that Jesus was persecuted for his religion and gender?  Jesus' family was forced to flee to Egypt not because he was a male Jew, but because Jesus was born King of the Jews.  The man who restored the Jewish temple to magnificence would scarcely have persecuted Jesus for his Jewishness or maleness; he persecuted Jesus because he saw him as a competitor for the throne.
• What sort of "unfair and cruel treatment of LGBTQ persons" does the author have in mind?  Does this include opposition to gay marriage?  Or resistance to having biological males use women's restrooms or compete in women's sports?  Is it unfair and cruel to not want our children to have drag queens read to them in public libraries?  Is it permissible to oppose having children be given sex change operations?
• Is Paul marginalizing and oppressing LGBTQ persons when he says in 1 Corinthians 6:
• 9 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! The sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, passive homosexual partners, practicing homosexuals, 10 thieves, the greedy, drunkards, the verbally abusive, and swindlers will not inherit the kingdom of God. 11 Some of you once lived this way. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
• What if the saving grace of Jesus is meant to deliver us from slavery to these kinds of behaviors; washing us clean of them rather than affirming us in them?
• Is it not hateful to tell people that they are free to persist in lifestyles that God has clearly said disqualify them from heaven?  Are we not consigning them to hell by doing so?
• Is it OK to see Jesus' race as largely irrelevant, as this song encourages us to do?  Some Children See Him by James Taylor