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"Obama assured the Muslim nation that America is not a Christian nation..."

The treaty of Tripoli did that a loooooong time ago. It even passed unanimously.

Here is article 11:

"As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen; and, as the said States never entered into any war, or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties, that no pretext arising from religious opinions, shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries."

The treaty was printed in full in several contemporary papers and there is no record of any public dissent.

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“one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”

Does that mean Texas can't secede from the US?

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Actually the Muslim nations would do well to notice the major differences between Obama's rhetoric and his actions. Despite all the fine words, he is in fact ramping up the Pentagon to produce colonialist armies for attacks on Muslim nations. Whether that is a result of christianity (more likely pseudo-jewish zionism since those are the main propagators of propaganda favoring attacks on Muslim nations) or just plain imperialism is something for you to decide.

Forget Star Wars. It’s Back To Colonial Warfare

There are a lot of unhappy campers at the Pentagon right now. US Defense Secretary Robert Gates chose last week to present a controversial new budget that will affect the course of US foreign and military policy for decades to come.

...The Pentagon has been deeply divided over whether the US military should be configured to fight conventional wars against Russia and China, or be transformed into an agile force to combat Third World guerillas.

...Last week, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates finally put an end to this debate. Gate’s newly announced defense budget makes clear that America’s military future lies in what the Pentagon calls, "expeditionary warfare" or "counterinsurgency operations." These, it is clear, will take place mostly in the Muslim world.

The British, less given to euphemisms than Americans, used to call their distant operations against unruly natives, "colonial warfare" or "little wars."

...While Gates was waving his big stick and warning all misbehaving Muslims, President Barack Obama was playing the good cop on his visit to Turkey, offering the "hand of friendship" to the very same Muslim world to which Secretary Gates was planning to dispatch more US troops and Predator killer drones. This sharp irony was completely lost on the US media.

Though the US deficit just reached a staggering US $1 trillion for the first half of 2008, military spending will still rise 4%. The Afghan and Iraq wars will alone cost $200 billion this year.

So much for Obama’s promised government austerity. Plowshares will be beaten into swords. Congressmen and lobbyists will scream to high heaven when some major weapons programs are terminated, but overall, the US military industrial complex is hardly suffering.

.... These realignments of defense spending clearly show the Obama administration intends to pursue a long war strategy in Afghanistan, Iraq, perhaps Somalia, and in other future Third World hot spots located near major oil deposits. President Bush’s so-called "war on terror" cost taxpayers $808 billion. Obama has renamed it "overseas contingency operations," but otherwise he seems to be following Bush’s lead. ...

http://www.lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis144.ht...

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Strange thing is he said it in Turkey a country who's constitution is probably more secular than ours - Ataturk & now the Turkish military vehemently support strict adherence to secularism.
Sunday - not Friday is the day of rest in Turkey, Turkish women are forbidden to wear burkas & veils in public - Imagine if Christians were forbidden to wear crosses in public here or religious Jews yarmulkes or Muslim women tradition dress or scarves?
Islam is not the official religion of Turkey - nor is Christianity the official religion of the USA

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