War With Barbary Pirates [aka Muslims] 18-19th Century

"To the Shores of Tripoli"
Modern America 13 Muslim Attacks

Thomas Jefferson's War
Barbary Coast Pirates aka Corsairs aka Muslims

3-28-16, Morton Thomson -- In the 18th century when the US third President Thomas Jefferson [1] saw there was no negotiating with Muslims [aka Barbary Pirates]. The United States declared war on Islam with President Thomas Jefferson leading the charge.
Jefferson formed what is now the Marines (sea going soldiers).  At the height of the 18th century, Muslim barbarians (the "Barbary Pirates") were the terror of the Mediterranean and a large area of the North Atlantic. They attacked every ship in sight holding the crews for exorbitant ransoms; heir captors were called Mohammedans or Ottoman Corsairs.
 
These hijacking extortionists of the high seas represented the North African Islamic nations of Tripoli, Tunis, Morocco and Algiers - collectively referred to as the Barbary Coast. They presented a dangerous and unprovoked threat to the new American Republic.
 
The birth of the U.S. Navy was 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.

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In July of 1785, Algerian pirates captured American ships, and the Dye of Algiers demanded an unheard-of ransom of $60,000.  Thomas Jefferson was vehemently opposed to any further payments; he proposed to Congress the formation of a coalition of allied nations who together could force the Islamic states into peace.  However, instead Congress paid the ransom.
 
In 1786, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams met with Tripoli's Muslim ambassador to Great Britain to ask: 'by what right his nation had to attack American ships and enslave American citizens? Why Muslims held so much hostility towards America, a nation with which they had no previous contacts?'

Tripoli's Ambassador Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja replied, "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 - for the next fifteen years - Americans continued to pay the Muslims millions of dollars for safe passage and return of hostages. This was over the objections of  George Washington, who warned that caving in was both wrong and would only further embolden the enemy.
 
Jefferson was disgusted; therefore shortly after his being sworn in as president  in 1801, the Muslim 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. President Jefferson refused.
 
Jefferson, until now, had been against America raising a naval force for anything beyond coastal defense, but, he watched his nation cowed by Islamic thuggery long enough, deciding 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.  Congress authorized Jefferson to empower U.S. ships to seize all vessels and goods 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 saw the newly independent United States had both the will and the right to strike back, they quickly abandoned their allegiance to Tripoli.

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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 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. These wars with the Barbary Coast is why the Marine Hymn 'From the Halls of Montezuma' contains the verse, "To the Shores of Tripoli" modern day Libya [2][3]
 
America has always had a tradition of religious tolerance; Jefferson had co-authored the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, but fundamentalist Islam was like no other religion the world had ever seen. It was based on supremacy, whose book 'Koran' not only condoned, but mandated violence against unbelievers, It 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 modern day American as the camels nose is IN THE TENT! The USA has been infiltrated and altered by Islam:
 
- Muslims have brought about women-only classes and swimming times at taxpayer-funded universities and public pools
- 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 their god 'Allah'
- public schools are pulling pork from their menus
 
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!​ 

Thirteen Attacks By Islamist on the USA Seven Years [2009-2016]:

1. Little Rock, Arkansas, June 1, 2009. Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad shot and murdered one soldier, Army Pvt. William Andrew Long, and injured another.
2. Fort Hood, Texas, November 5, 2009. Major Nidal Malik Hasan shot up a military base in Fort Hood and murdered 14 people.
3. Boston, Massachusetts, April 15, 2013. Tamerlan and Dhozkar Tsarnaev set off two bombs Boston marathon, killing three and injuring over 260 people.
4. Moore, Oklahoma, September 24, 2014. Alton Nolen beheaded a woman, Colleen Huff, at a Vaughan Foods plant and stabbed and injured another person.
5. Queens, New York, October 23, 2014. Zale Thompson, another self-radicalized Muslim, injured two police officers with a hatchet.
6. Brooklyn, New York, December 20, 2014. Ismaayil Brinsley shot and murdered two police officers execution-style and his Facebook page featured jihadist postings and had ties to a terror-linked mosque.
7.  Garland, Texas, May 3, 2015. Two ISIS gunmen shot up a Mohammed cartoon contest at the Curtis Culwell Center.
8. Chattanooga, Tennessee, July 16, 2015. Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez shot and killed four Marines and a sailor at a military base in Chattanooga.
9. San Bernardino, California, December 14, 2015. Two radical Islamists, Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik, shot and murdered 14 people and injured 22 others at an office holiday party.
10. Orlando, Florida, June 12, 2016. Omar Mateen, 29, opened fire at a gay nightclub, killing 49 and injuring 53.
11. St. Cloud, Minnesota, September 17, 2016. Dahir Ahmed Adan, a 20-year-old Somali refugee, began hacking at people with a steak knife at a Minnesota mall, injuring nine people before he was shot dead.
12. New York City/New Jersey, September 17, 2016. Ahmad Khan Rahami, a 28-year-old naturalized citizen from Afghanistan, set off multiple bombs in New York and New Jersey. In Chelsea, his bomb resulted in the injury of over 30 people.
13. Columbus, Ohio, November 28, 2016. Abdul Razak Ali Artan, an ISIS-inspired 20-year-old Somali migrant. He attempted to run over his fellow Ohio State students on campus with a butcher knife injuring 11 one critically before being shot dead by a campus police officer. [4]

President Trump is correct in trying to block potential Islamic jihadists from entering our nation ... strange that Democrats and leftist judges are making the way for their entry easier. 

Excerpted and adapted full original message here
[1] 3rd president: March 4, 1801 – March 4, 1809
[2] Tripoli, Libya
[3] Halls of Montezuma - Shores of Tripoli [video] - hymn of the Corps since 1927.
[4] 13 attacks 2009-2016