Yes, indcons, you wrote a good synopsis of the situation. I'll put it more bluntly for GK.
Most of my fellow Americans are ignorant of how we are regarded by most Indians who know anything about the USA. The piece you posted above was written through British eyes. Most of us are also ignorant about how we are regarded by most British people (like the writer of the propaganda piece above). Most in the USA are ignorant of the evil meaning and international backstabbing behind the phrase, "Pax Americana." We don't want "empire," and most of us do like the Indian immigrants and visitors we meet. For one, they are not as condescending and cynical toward us as are certain Europeans.
If the most tolerant and caring people of India continue to educate us, we will learn.
Those who distributed the recent anti-India columns that you've seen are members of small Christian identity organizations. They seek to divert America toward allying with countries where majority sentiment is in favor of religious fascism. They are more tied to religious sentiments in Europe (Italy, Russia, Serbia and others) than to the USA.
Some background for you on religious issues in America:
In our US Constitution, we have a clause for freedom of religious expression and another one against establishment of any one religion by our government. Those words are in our Constitution, because the first Europeans to arrive and survive in America sought to escape the Catholic edicts of Europe in those days (see Reformation, meetings in Holland, the English Civil War,...). They were the true Protestants (which Protestantism has been since overwhelmed and is now quietly reviving). They would not have crosses in their churches, and they despised celebrations like Halloween and Christmas as "paganism." Many true Protestants now are going Noachide (learning about Judaism with intentions to convert). A few others have been going back to Puritanism, Calvinism and other truly Protestant faiths.
But our Constitution remains the same on religion, and it will remain so due to the mixture of cultures that live in and enrich our country. And remember that most people in the USA don't have strong religious beliefs at all. They rather indulge in their daily personal affairs without much regard for written philosophies.
Now I'm going to give that British you-know-what writer a piece of my mind! ..."Pax Americana," indeed! He and his kind may keep their projections about "empire" to themselves! I'm tired of their back-biting against us in other nations.