Thomas Jefferson made it very clear that the constitution was not based on christian law.
The three branches of the U.S. Government: Judicial, Legislative, Executive
At the Constitutional Convention of 1787, James Madison proposed the plan to divide the central government into three branches. He discovered this model of government from the Perfect Governor, as he read Isaiah 33:22
“For the LORD is our judge,
the LORD is our lawgiver,
the LORD is our king;
He will save us.”
“ Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.” John Jay (In case you didn't know, he was the US's first Chief Justice) Source: October 12, 1816. The Correspondence and Public Papers of John Jay, Henry P. Johnston, ed., (New York: Burt Franklin, 1970), Vol. IV, p. 393.
“ The general principles upon which the Fathers achieved independence were the general principals of Christianity . I will avow that I believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God.”
” “[July 4th] ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty.”
-John Adams in a letter written to Abigail on the day the Declaration was approved by Congress
“Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day [the Fourth of July]?" “Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior? That it forms a leading event in the progress of the Gospel dispensation? Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer's mission upon earth? That it laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity"?
-- John Quincy Adams, 1837, at the age of 69, when he delivered a Fourth of July speech at Newburyport, Massachusetts.
Now onto
While technically true, it is playing with the facts. Yes the Baath party was dominated by people that were Sunnis. These were secular, non-religious Sunnis. You are trying to intimate that the Sunnis in power were the same as religious Sunnis. Not true.
Here is what I know, if you get captured by Shia then you probably have a good chance of survival. If you get captured by Sunnis, you WILL have your head cut off. I have seen many more beheading videos that have not been released to the public. I honestly couldn't tell if the Sunnis were religous or not.
"Damn. I could build a nuclear bomb, given the fissionable material, but I can't tame my computer." (1VB)Jerome - French Rocket Scientist
™ Version 4.2