VIA Colleen Gill Rotter Only knew parts of this.... Now here is the rest of the story.... > 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 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 Bey 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 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 > 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 us > 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…. > > 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’s America would rather be politically > correct than victorious. > > Any doubts, just Google Thomas Jefferson vs the Muslim World. >
Posted on: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 00:09:27 +0000
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