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More generally, conspiracism (as Middle East scholar Daniel Pipes calls it) flourishes during turbulent times--revolutions in particular--when long-established orders seem imperiled by uncontrollable events, endangered powers imagine secret plots to undermine them, and the dispossessed worry about persecution.
The South China Morning Post of Hong Kong fretted about the situation in Kosovo, where the Serbian population has shrunk from 200,000 to 50,000 as a result of post-conflict Albanian persecution.
The cover package slams the tobacco deal and the persecution of both smokers and the tobacco industry.
This Catholic Church replaced many of the secret chapels which were built for worship during the period of Catholic persecution and was completed in 1887.
The holiday's emphasis on self-reliance and military strength in the face of persecution dovetailed with the themes of nationalists seeking to establish a Jewish state.