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The Persecution of Yazidis has been ongoing since at least the 10th century. [122] [123] The Yazidi religion is regarded as devil worship by Islamists. [124] Yazidis have been persecuted by Muslim Kurdish tribes since the 10th century, [122] and by the Ottoman Empire from the 17th to the 20th centuries. [125]
The Persecution of Yazidis has been ongoing since at least the 10th century. [314] [315] The Yazidi religion is regarded as devil worship by Islamists. [316] Yazidis have been persecuted by Muslim Kurdish tribes since the 10th century, [314] and they were also persecuted by the Ottoman Empire from the 17th century to the 20th century. [317]
A persecution of Christians at Kirkuk is recorded in Shapur's first decade, though most persecution happened after 341. [69] At war with the Roman emperor Constantius II ( r. 337–361 ), Shapur imposed a tax to cover the war expenditure, and Shemon Bar Sabbae , the Bishop of Seleucia-Ctesiphon , refused to collect it. [ 69 ]
This account of persecution is part of a general theme of anti-Christian persecution by both Romans and Jews, one that starts with the Pharisee rejection of Jesus's ministry, the cleansing of the Temple, and continues on with his trial before the High Priest, his crucifixion, and the Pharisees' refusal to accept him as the Jewish messiah.
A. N. Sherwin-White records that serious discussion of the reasons for Roman persecution of Christians began in 1890 when it produced "20 years of controversy" and three main opinions: first, there was the theory held by most French and Belgian scholars that "there was a general enactment, precisely formulated and valid for the whole empire, which forbade the practice of the Christian religion.
Persecution of Christian minorities climaxed following the Syrian civil war and later by its spillover but has since intensified further. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Christians have been subjected to massacres, forced conversions , rape, sexual slavery, and the systematic destruction of their historical sites, churches and other places of worship.
According to former United States Solicitor General, Archibald Cox, Jehovah's Witnesses in the United States were "the principal victims of religious persecution ... in the twentieth century," and added that, "they began to attract attention and provoke repression in the 1930s, when their proselytizing and numbers rapidly increased."
Sectarian violence among Christians is a recurring phenomenon, in which Christians engage in a form of communal violence known as sectarian violence.This form of violence can frequently be attributed to differences of religious beliefs between sects of Christianity (sectarianism).