Do conservatives really believe Elijah is a Muslim name?

You are right on the mark with this. It smacks of the days of Senator McCarthy and his reds under the bed witch hunts and also the days of persecution of the Jews in Weimar and Nazi Germany, it is very frightening what ignorance and a culture of closed minds and fear can do to a supposed educated and enlightened people. About the Christianity thing, some of the people that I hear and read about that claim to be Christians are nothing of the sort. Jesus preached forgiveness and tolerance not hatred, vitriol and persecution of others.