Persecution of religious minorities appears to have very little to do with their relgious beliefs and everything to do with their being perceived as minorities available as targets.

Comments such as "As far as I'm concerned, these are the important factors that give rise to religious persecution - uncompromising absolutism in church teachings and how that absolutism is put to use for gain and political power" are both irrelevant as explanations of persecution - and also implicitly appear to imply some justification for persecution.

That is equally true in relation to Muslims as it is to Christians. And vice versa.