We live in a world where persecution involving horrible acts of violence and killing against members of religious minorities takes place.

Pulling in examples of discrimination on a vastly lower level and implying they amount to the same thing is disingenuous. It's analogous to the way that white racists will often do the same thing with regard to persecution of black people.

The lower level discrimination is wrong and needs to be challenged, and there are common factors - but it is important to avoid the kind of thinking which I assume underlay the post on this thread by someone who declared that people belonging to a particular religious community, who were living in daily threat of their lives, deserved it, as being Christians.