WASHINGTON >> The Trump administration criticized the Islamic State today for its persecution of religious minorities but made no mention of a recent rise in attacks against Muslims in the United States, as it released the government’s annual accounting of religious persecution around the world.

“As we make progress in defeating ISIS and denying them their caliphate, their terrorists members have and continue to target multiple religions and ethnic groups for rape, kidnapping, enslavement and even death,” said Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson, referring to the Islamic State, in brief remarks at the State Department.

Tillerson went on to declare that the Islamic State was “clearly responsible for genocide against the Yazidis, Christians and Shia Muslims in areas it controlled or has controlled.”

The comments were part of the formal release of the International Religious Freedom Report for 2016, an annual accounting required by Congress of threats to religious freedom around the world.

“Religious persecution and intolerance remains far too prevalent,” he said. “Almost 80 percent of the global population lives with restrictions on or hostilities to limit their freedom of religion.”

Missing from the report was any mention of a spike in acts of violence and bigotry against Muslims in the United States, widely reported in the wake of last year’s election. Nor did the report take note of President Donald Trump’s proposal as a candidate to ban the entry of all Muslims into the United States, or his subsequent orders to bar the entry of refugees or citizens from seven (later reduced to six) predominantly Muslim countries.

The report listed threats to religious freedom in 199 countries, but the United States was not on the list.

“We do not rate ourselves,” said Ambassador Michael Kozak of the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor.

The report recognized that the resettlement of refugees suffering religious persecution was “a vital tool” but failed to acknowledge that the Trump administration had severely restricted the entry of all refugees into the United States.

“Every year, unfortunately, there are way, way more refugees than any country can take,” Kozak said when asked about the seeming incongruity.