I wonder...if we'd had a thousand years of religious wars over here, maybe we'd be a bit tired of it all and more suspicious of religious claims. As it is, some of our founders were pretty strong religious fundamentalists, and they still have serious influence here.

I can see that having Muslim fundamentalists as a growing issue in the UK, as well as other European countries, is a tricky issue to cope with. If religion has NOT been a major deal for decades, it seems to be now....even though it is not Christianity.