These progressives don't really care about the people, they care about their perceived large-scale persecution. They then pat each other on the back for standing up for these poor people.
Your rhetoric seems to be implying that there's no persecution of Muslims in the world? That's very strange considering that some of the major civil wars going on at this very moment are focused around the persecution of Muslim minority groups...
I won't deny that there exist some latte liberals who take up social issues as a way to feel trendy and self-righteous, but these are still real issues regardless of the type of people that try to popularize them in the United States.