Although being a Christian or Jew in Saudi Arabia today wouldn't be much fun either!
> being a Christian or Jew in Saudi Arabia today ...
That would suck. However, imagine being an animist or some other pagan in Saudi Arabia today. Oh, wait, you don't have to imagine; you can just look and see what the Islamists do to pagans in Chad and Sudan. Christians and Jews have it infinitely better in Muslim lands than pagans do, just as Jews - as maltreated and hated as they were - had it easier in medieval Europe than the local pagans did.
Monotheisms *really* don't like competition.