Persecuted minority? When in Persia the Parsis persecuted Hindus, Buddhists, Jews and more

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 “The Zoroastrian religion [dēn mazdēsn] and the priests held great authority in the empire [šahr]. The gods, water, fire, and domestic animals received satisfaction, and Ahreman and the demons received blows and suffering. The doctrine [kēš] of Ahreman and the demons was expelled from the empire and became unbelief. The Jews, Buddhists, Brahmins, Nazarenes, Christians, Baptizers, and Manichaeans were struck in the empire. Idols were destroyed, and the residences of demons were eliminated and became the place and seat of the gods.”

SOURCE: Kerdir, Inscription at the Kaʻaba-ye Zardosht, 46/69–70 (modifi ed translation). On the identity of these groups, see Blois 2002, 5–11. The Nazarenes and Christians are unlikely to have been distinct religious groups. The latter term is merely a polemical epithet for the former: C. Jullien and F. Jullien 2002b.