The US has been trying to free people from Allah for quite a few years now and have committed plenty of war crimes to that end. They're trying to stop "radical Islam" with bullets; if that isn't religious persecution then I don't know what is.

I know that it all sounds very hyperbolic, but that's mainly because of the lens through which we view the world. With different lenses on it's very easy to read the War on Terror as a War on Islam and Western meddling in the Islamic world as trying to enslave them into the ideals of the West when they're quite happy with their Sharia.