Being made fun of is not persecution.
Look, here's the analogy. There's a few serious people in this world who wholeheartedly believe that Elvis is still alive. There's not millions of people who believe that. Nor are there hundreds of institutions, universities or churches dedicated to the continuation of the belief. No, as Harris once pointed out, whenever someone seriously represents their belief that Elvis is still alive; that person immediately pays a social price in barely contained laughter. When then that person continues that train of thought -- "It's a matter faith that Elvis is alive", "You cannot NOT prove Elvis is still alive," "I'm going to eat crackers and sign hymns about Elvis" -- that really demonstrates how asinine those beliefs are.
With persecution, we've not passed laws against the belief that Elvis is alive. We're not throwing Elvis-believers in jail or are actively depriving them of their freedoms. We're just demonstrating, through the act of laughter, that the belief of an ancient Bedouin man performing a bunch of unrealistic magic tricks before raising himself from the dead, which goes against everything a learned person in the 21st Century knows about biology, physics, chemistry, etc., is a stupid idea that no serious person ought believe. It deserves every snicker and chuckle it has going for it.