"West pointed out that these communities "were Christian when our ancestors were worshipping trees and stones." Now they are in danger of imminent extinction."

If West made that statement, he merely proved what a bloody ignorant fool he was.

The Egyptians, Greeks and Romans all had very well developed religious systems long before a few dozen Jews decided to follow a Jewish teacher who had some rather good ideas about how things ought to be done.

It wasn't until some 70 - 100 years after that Jewish teacher was executed as a dangerous subversive by the Roman authorities, that Christianity came into being.

Apart from a comparatively short period of resistance by the Romans, the history of Christianity has been one long catalogue of forcible suppression and destruction of other religions, culminating in the latter day internecine war between the various Christian sects.

All of which strongly weighs against current claims of being the most persecuted, unless of course one includes those internecine conflicts.