I honestly don't think it's anything that rational. I really think it has to do with this bizarre desire that seems to have arisen in the EU and the US to suck up to the Muslims. Every completely irrational demand of theirs is somehow treated as if it deserved serious consideration and as if they had the power to force us to do it if we didn't agree to do it voluntarily. They don't, yet, although they will if we keep this up.
Furthermore, European countries hate Christians and will do anything to spite them; and Bush somehow has always felt that he has to prove that he doesn't favor Christians and in fact doesn't even give them routine protection. Can you imagine the US rushing to help a struggling Christian population? Right, neither can I.
“..he has to prove that he doesn’t favor Christians and in fact doesn’t even give them routine protection.”
Then don’t claim to be a Christian. I hope that this is not going to bite him in the hereafter.