You pride yourselves on being a holy people, and you are called by your scriptures to "be perfect, as God is perfect" (Matt. 3:48); I therefore also call upon you to remember the teaching of your tradition (1 John 4:18): "There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love." It's time, therefore, to stop living in fear, and to follow the teachings of your religion, your founding apostles, and your god Jesus when all of these spoke of love.
You cannot rightly claim to be in the position of a persecuted minority any longer; you have, more often than not, been the persecutors for the last 1650 years or so. For those of us who are not of your belief system, we have no interest in "dying for" our religion, because we value life and wish to have it in abundance, here, in this very good and beautiful, though flawed, world. For us, martyrdom is not a virtue nor an ideal. For us, who are now in the position that your spiritual ancestors were when your religion emerged, would you act in ways towards us that you still execrate the Romans for nearly two millennia later? "The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone," indeed...