[ciberado]

Maybe I'm wrong, but I have always thought this was an ethnic/cultural/social persecution, not mainly religious-based.

[AnimalMuppet]

Both/and, I think. If you don't like "them", and they're religiously different too, then religion becomes one more avenue for you to attack them. On the other hand, if it starts with you not liking their religion, then you can wind up not liking their ethnicity too.

[tsol]

Why not both? Romani are an example of ethnic persecution alone, but Jews have to deal with an added layer of religious persecution as well