On your other points, by associating Catholics and Orthodox more closely, the anti-Catholic bias is spilling on us as well. This addition of some 300 million Orthodox to the ranks of the Apostolic, Eucharistic catholic Church is hardly a welcome sign in their minds, realizing that our divisions are not unbridgeable.
Our willingness to put aside our theological division, deep as they are, and wait for an cumnenbical Council to resolve them, while presenting a united front on 99% of beliefs we share in common does not bode well for those who would rather see us divided.
(Or in plain english:
yes the protestant western government really prefer Muslims to true Christians, and protestants loath the fact that their religion is in fact just a bunch of mutations on Christianity performed by folks most of whom couldn’t read Hello World, let alone the Bible.