Here’s a little history lesson for you that your children are NOT currently learning in school.
~The real reason Thomas Jefferson owned a copy of the Quran~
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 (seagoing
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.
This is 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.
