A different type of president then.
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 and
wrote heart-breaking letters home, begging their
government and family
members to pay whatever their Mohammedan captors
demanded.
These extortionists of 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, 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 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 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 STUPID leaders would rather be
politically correct than
victorious!
If you have any doubts about the above
information, Google "Thomas
Jefferson vs. the Muslim World
