The Treaty of Tripoli

Here we see a document that was signed on 4 November 1796 at Tripoli and taken again to Algiers for a third party witness. It was submitted by the second president of the United States John Adams after the second Barbary war.

when we observe article 11which you should be able to enlarge on the photo provided above it says: 

As the government of the United Sates of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion, has it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen (Muslims), and as the said states never entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mahometan (Muslim) nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries. 

Here it tells us that the United States of America wants to coexist with the Muslims, but today this is not the case, and furthermore I feel that today the US has shown and will continue to show a great deal of hostility towards the Muslims. But in the late 1700s we can clearly see peace between the two parties (Muslims and non Muslims) by just looking at this document. It seems to me that the Presidents of the US at that time were more educated and sympathetic towards their Muslim foes then today. Furthermore we are told by president  John Adams himself in article 11that America is not in any sense founded by the Christian religion. So for the wars that took place at that time were not religious ones unlike in the middle ages and today in the 21st century.