For 17yrs he attended Rev.Wright church. He took his wife and children there. That is bad enough. Then in one speech, he denounces his spiritual adviser and now he is a new man. Nice.
That said and done, i think no one could do a bigger favor for islam then bush. During his tenure Serbia got screwed (again), the koran is now enshrined in the constitution of iraq and afghanistan, when it was not there before, quaeda and islamists are in iraq when they were not, Bashir got a free hand to rape and pillage. He allied himself with the saudis and established oppressive anti-abortion, anti-contraception rules around the world, by offering selective aid.
Probably neither Bush nor Obama are
"true Christian" believers, both are opportunists who have a specific demograph which would inevitably vote for each & both have rather shrewd ideas of how to win that demograph over to their sides.
Obama is probably a closet agnost, but he knows being truthful about that would be political suicide in USA, so he pretends to be a moderate believer. I don't think he bought all Rev. Wright's ideas, a church is also a place to socialize & spend time, many go to many churches for family & communities ties' sake.
Bush has shrewdly noted the fact that the Christian Right is a big & influential demograph, who tend to lean Republican, & he tailor makes his speeches, policies & agendas to suit those. He shoulders a big portion of the blame for the African AIDS epidemic. I'm going off topic but somehow this epidemic ravages Christian African nations far more than Muslim ones. South Africa, Uganda, Botswana, Swaziland are the worst hit & Christian, while Senegal has just
.8% AIDS, Mali & even jihad ravaged Somalia aren't above 1-2%.
As for Bush's policy towards Islam, sadly U.S.A. pussy foots around Islamists, perhaps coz they believe that they need to placate the world's Muslims who're furious with their support for Israel. As it happpens, Muslims aren't a bit placated, they're just as mad as ever over Israel,& just as willing to bomb America.