And every single President since this countries inception has been a Christian. I'm not sure your point is significant in this context.
"The UAE is even worse than the former states, at least according to one poll, which indicates that over 70% of the Muslim native population has a hostile view of the United States."
This statistic is being repeated over and over again. Almost as much as the poll that says 70% of Americans don't think the DPW deal should be permitted. I would suggest that a vast majority of Americans have a hostile view of Muslims. The common ingredient is fear and mutual distrust. The only cure is to increase interaction between the two nations.
"I'm not aware of any similar ones taking place in Dubai, or Abu Dhabi, or anywhere else in the Trucial states."
The UAE was one of the first countries in the world to offer its condolences to the United States after September 11. Every year since then it holds an official ceremony in memory of the Sept 11 victims.
"but the fact that I didn't see or hear of them-and most Americans weren't aware of them, if they did take place-is telling."
It is? Now that you know they've taken place, what does the fact you didn't know tell you? Maybe that what you read in the MSM about countries like the UAE isn't necessarily the whole picture? Why do you think our media would want you to think that the nations of the Middle East (heck, that all the nations of the world) do not support us or our war on terror? Is it possible the media is trying to convince you that we are on the wrong side of world opinion? Is the fact that your opinion is being actively shaped by a liberal MSM agenda becoming a little clearer?
First of all, the fact that we've always had a Christian POTUS-in a country where over eighty percent of the population is Christian-is not in any way comparable to the ruthless, barbaric practices of a fascistic religious monarchy, which espouses the most austere, regressive, hostile elements of an already retrograde, stultified religious culture.
Neither the Congress nor the Chief executive is empowered to deny anyone their civil rights or civil liberties based upon their religious preference.
Furthermore, the United States government doesn't proselytize people into the Christian faith.
Far from it.
And having a hostile view of Muslims, and seeking their complete extermination and/or conversion are two entirely separate issues.
Your call for more integration is the straight out of the Eurabia handbook.
Eurabia is the name of a little journal founded in 1975 by the official perpetrators of the plot, of the conspiracy: the Association France-Pays Arabes in Paris, the Groupe d'Etudes sur le Moyen Orient in Geneva, and the European Coordinating Committee of the Association for Friendship wih the Arab World.
I suggest that you read Fallaci, and Bat Yeor, and Robert Spenser.