All questions of who's evilest aside, it really isn't surprising that Christians are make up the largest numbner of people being persecuted for their religious beliefs worldwide.

Because Christians live everywhere. In any society in which the Christian community is small enough to be persecuted at all, they are likely to be the largest of all religious minorities being persecuted.

Add to that the fact that any other religious minorities being persecuted at the same time and in the same place will usually be members of relatively small, relatively regional faiths unless they are Muslims or Jews.

All religious persecution is abhorrent. However, the fact that Christians are suffering most of it, numerically, in the 21st century proves nothing except that some benighted regimes and populations hate Christians.

In the past, monotheistic religions have found it very easy to get revved up about killing others in the name of the one God. But in the modern world, few active monotheists either do this or recommend it. They're too busy worrying about their own lives. If Muslim fanatics are behind most persecution of Christians, that's not because they're Muslims, it's because they're fanatics.

("Fundamentalists" doesn't go far enough. Christian, Jewish, and Muslim fundamentalists are overwhelmingly peaceful. "Fanatics" are another category entirely.)

So let's demand that all religious persecution stop everywhere. Now we can move on to the next problem.