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A good history lesson - then there was
the Crusades.
When
Jefferson saw there was no negotiating with Muslims, he formed what is
the 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 andwrote 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 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 15 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% 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 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. But in turn several
American companies have placed the Muslim symbol on their products in the
name of Allah; 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 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 today America 's leaders would rather be
politically correct than victorious!
If
you have any doubts about the above information, Google "Thomas
Jefferson vs. the Muslim World."
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