In case you hadn't noticed, King James was not Catholic. Not even close (he was the intended target of the Gunpowder Plot). And Scotland itself is a matter apart, one of the areas where cruelty and fanaticism were most savagely unleashed - again, not a Catholic country. As for "being persecuted" in the twenty-first century USA - I am not buying that bridge. You have no idea what persecution means. If you had been a Christian in third-century Egypt, or in twenty-first century Pakistan for that matter, you would not waste such a word on such a reality.

P.S.: there is no such thing as Abrahamic tradition.