Bush Advancing Secularism?

Today, columnist Christopher Hitchens weighs in with an interesting article, arguing that President Bush is acutally advancing secularism through his foreign policy. Hitchens raises an interesting point: While the Left has unloaded a mountain of insults at religious conservatives in the week since Election Day, the author points out that in fighting Al Queda and Islamic militants in Iraq and elsewhere, President Bush has actually been a great supporter of more secular Islamic groups. It is ironic that leftists, like Michael Moore, cast extreme Islamic radicals as freedom fighters, while heaping scorn upon Christian evangelicals (who, compared to their Islamic counterparts, are anything but radical).