Editing Religious persecution (section)

===Persecutions of Jews===
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[[File:Schnorr von Carolsfeld Bibel in Bildern 1860 155.png|thumb|Woodcut of the Seleucid persecution depicting martyrs refusing to sacrifice from ''[[commons:Die Bibel in Bildern|Die Bibel in Bildern]]'']]

A major component of [[Jewish history]], persecutions have been committed by [[Seleucid Empire|Seleucids]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=452&letter=S |title=Seleucidæ |publisher=JewishEncyclopedia.com |access-date=22 November 2011}}</ref> [[Ancient Greece|ancient Greeks]],<ref name=Flannery>Flannery, Edward H. ''The Anguish of the Jews: Twenty-Three Centuries of Antisemitism''. Paulist Press, first published in 1985; this edition 2004, pp. 11–2. {{ISBN|0-8091-2702-4}}. [[Edward Flannery]]</ref> [[Ancient Rome|ancient Romans]], Christians ([[Catholic Church|Catholic]], [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Orthodox]] and [[Protestant]]), [[Muslim]]s, [[Nazism|Nazis]], etc. Some of the most important events which constitute this [[History of antisemitism|history]] include the [[1066 Granada massacre]], the [[Rhineland massacres]] (by Catholics, but they were committed against papal orders, see also : [[Sicut Judaeis]]), the [[Alhambra Decree]] which was issued after the [[Reconquista]] and the establishment of the [[Spanish Inquisition]], the publication of ''[[On the Jews and Their Lies]]'' by [[Martin Luther]] which furthered Protestant [[anti-Judaism]] and was later used to strengthen [[Antisemitism in Europe#Germany|German antisemitism]] and justify [[pogrom]]s and [[the Holocaust]].{{citation needed|date=October 2020}}

According to the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]]'s statistics, the majority of religiously motivated [[hate crime]]s which are committed in the United States are committed against Jews. In 2018, anti-Jewish hate crimes represented 57.8% of all religiously motivated hate crimes; followed by anti-Muslim hate crimes, which were the second most common, representing 14.5%.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://religionnews.com/2019/11/12/fbi-report-jews-the-target-of-overwhelming-number-of-religious-based-hate-crimes-2/ |title=FBI report: Jews the target of overwhelming number of religious-based hate crimes |last=Shimron |first=Yonat |date=12 November 2019 |website=Religion News Service |access-date= 28 October 2020}}</ref>