>>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 eighteenth century, Muslim 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 government and family members to pay whatever their Mohammedan captors >>demanded. >>These extortionists of the high seas represented the 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 in1784, seventeen years before he would become president, Thomas >>Jefferson became Americas 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 Dey 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 Tripolis 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 should not have >>acknowledged 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 of 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 twenty 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 is 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 might 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, 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, the >>fact that 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 supremacism, 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 bother every American. That the Islams have brought about >>women-only classes and swimming times 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 in the news papers.. >> >>Its 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 own 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 todays America would rather be politically >>correct than victorious. >>Any doubts, just Google Thomas Jefferson vs the Muslim World No virus found in this message.
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