......and history repeats itself
again and again and again
Will it require an eighth
"crusade" to restore world peace?
Subject: ISLAM AND THE U.S. MARINES
History repeats itself…and every
American should really be upset at our do nothing congress and president !!
Including how the term ‘Leatherneck’
came to be . .
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 in 1784, 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 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 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 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 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 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 newspapers.
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
Happy Remembering! Isl
All gave some, some gave all.
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Have a great day
Sir Richard James, McDonald
KNYAZ Cte MKSJ KOC KR PhD JD LLD
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure
of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms
of Officers to harass our People, and eat out their substance
The rights of the individuals are restricted only to the extent
that they have been voluntarily surrendered by the citizenship to the agencies
of government.
City of Dallas v Mitchell, 245 S.W. 944
Sir Richard James, McDonald
