A 232 Year History of our fight against Islam
& why it is no longer taught in our public schools...
When Thomas Jefferson saw there was no
negotiating with Muslims, he formed what is now the Marines (sea going
soldiers). These Marines were attached to U.S. Merchant vessels. When the
Muslims attacked U.S. merchant vessels they were repulsed by armed soldiers, but there
is more.
The Marines followed the Muslims back to their
villages and killed every man, woman, and child in the village. It didn't take
long for the Muslims to leave U.S. Merchant vessels alone.
English and French merchant vessels started
running up our flag when entering the Mediterranean to secure safe travel.
Why the Marine Hymn contains the verse, "To
the Shores of Tripoli ". - This is very interesting and a must read piece
of our history. It points out where we may be heading.
Most Americans are unaware of the fact that over
two hundred years ago the United States had declared war on Islam, and Thomas
Jefferson led the charge!
At the height of the 18th century, Muslim
pirates (the "Barbary Pirates") were the terror of the Mediterranean
and a large area of the North Atlantic
.
They attacked every ship in sight, and held the
crews for exorbitant ransoms. Those taken hostage were subjected to barbaric
treatment and wrote heart-breaking letters home, begging their governments and
families to pay whatever their Mohammedan captors demanded.
These extortionists of the high seas represented
the North African Islamic nations of Tripoli, Tunis , Morocco , and Algiers -
collectively referred to as the Barbary Coast - and presented a dangerous and
unprovoked threat to the new American Republic .
Before the Revolutionary War, U.S. merchant
ships had been under the protection of Great Britain. When the U.S. declared
its independence and entered into war, the ships of the United States were
protected by France. However, once the war was won, America had to protect its
own fleets.
Thus, the birth of the U.S. Navy. Beginning in
1784, 17 years before he would become president, Thomas Jefferson became
America's Minister to France. That same year, the U.S. Congress sought to
appease its Muslim adversaries by following in the footsteps of European
nations who paid bribes to the Barbary States rather than engaging them in war.
In July of 1785, Algerian pirates captured
American ships, and the Dye of Algiers demanded an unheard-of ransom of
$60,000. It was a plain and simple case of extortion, and Thomas Jefferson was
vehemently opposed to any further payments.
Instead, he proposed to Congress the formation
of a coalition of allied nations who together could force the Islamic states
into peace. A disinterested Congress decided to pay the ransom.
In 1786, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams met
with Tripoli's ambassador to Great Britain to ask by what right his nation
attacked American ships and enslaved American citizens, and why Muslims held so
much hostility towards America, a nation with which they had no
previous contacts.
The two future presidents reported that
Ambassador Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja had answered that Islam "was
founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Quran that
all nations who would not acknowledge their authority were sinners, that it was
their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to
make slaves of all they could take as prisoners, and that every Musselman
(Muslim) who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise."
Despite this stunning admission of premeditated
violence on non-Muslim nations, as well as the objections of many notable
American leaders, including George Washington, who warned that caving in was
both wrong and would only further embolden the enemy, for the following fifteen
years, the American government paid the Muslims millions of dollars for the
safe passage of American ships or the return of American hostages.
The payments in ransom and tribute amounted to
over 20 percent of the United States government annual revenues in 1800.
Jefferson was disgusted. Shortly after his being
sworn in as the third President of the United States in 1801, the Pasha of
Tripoli sent him a note demanding the immediate payment of $225,000 plus
$25,000 a year for every year forthcoming.
That changed everything. Jefferson let the Pasha
know, in no uncertain terms, what he could do with his demand. The Pasha
responded by cutting down the flagpole at the American consulate and declared
war on the United States. Tunis, Morocco, and Algiers immediately followed
suit.
Jefferson, until now, had been against America
raising a naval force for anything beyond coastal defense, but, having watched
his nation be cowed by Islamic thuggery for long enough, decided that it was
finally time to meet force with force.
He dispatched a squadron of frigates to the
Mediterranean and taught the Muslim nations of the Barbary Coast a lesson he
hoped they would never forget. Congress authorized Jefferson to empower U.S.
ships to seize all vessels and goods of the Pasha of Tripoli and to "cause
to be done all
other acts of precaution or hostility as the
state of war would justify".
When Algiers and Tunis, who were both accustomed
to American cowardice and acquiescence, saw the newly independent United States
had both the will and the right to strike back, they quickly abandoned their
allegiance to Tripoli.
The war with Tripoli lasted for four more years,
and raged up again in 1815. The bravery of the U.S. Marine Corps in these wars
led to the line "to the shores of Tripoli" in the Marine Hymn, and
they would forever be known as "leathernecks" for the leather collars
of their uniforms, designed to prevent their heads from being cut off by the
Muslim scimitars when
boarding enemy ships.
Islam, and what its Barbary followers justified
doing in the name of their prophet and their god, disturbed Jefferson quite
deeply.
America had a tradition of religious tolerance.
In fact Jefferson, himself, had co-authored the Virginia Statute for Religious
Freedom, but fundamentalist Islam was like no other religion the world had ever
seen.
A religion based on supremacy, whose holy book
not only condoned but mandated violence against unbelievers, was unacceptable
to him.
His greatest fear was that someday this brand of
Islam would return and pose an even greater threat to the United States .
This should concern every American. That Muslims
have brought about women-only classes and swimming times in America at
taxpayer-funded universities and public pools; that Christians, Jews, and Hindus
have been banned from serving on juries where Muslim defendants are being
judged;
Piggy banks and Porky Pig tissue dispensers have
been banned from workplaces because they offend Islamist sensibilities; ice
cream has been discontinued at certain Burger King locations because the
picture on the wrapper looks similar to the Arabic script for Allah; public
schools are pulling pork from their menus; on and on and on
and on..
It's death by a thousand cuts, or inch-by-inch
as some refer to it, and most Americans have no idea that this battle is being
waged every day across America. By not fighting back, by allowing groups to
obfuscate what is really happening, and not insisting that the Islamists adapt
to our culture, the United States is cutting its own throat
with a politically correct knife, and helping to further the Islamists' agenda.
Sadly, it appears that today America's leaders
would rather be politically correct than victorious!
IF YOU DO NOT REMEMBER THE PAST, YOU ARE DOOMED
TO REPEAT IT.
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