The Magna Carta and the Protestant Reformation changed all that. The roots of our nation's freedoms, steeped in the fundamental tenets of Christianity, are the underlying basis of our liberties. That is why the Aamerican War for Independence was not the "secularist" bloodbath like the French revolution.
And it is curious, is it not, that since this occured when Islam was still self-isolated and convinced that there was "nothing of value to learn from the infidel", that they went out of their way to send missions to Europe to "study" the French Revolution", but not the American one?
There must be a greater affinity and attraction for the French technique, when they began to awaken to the fact that they were being left far behind, technically, socially and scientifically.