Re: What Thomas Jefferson learned from the Muslim book of jihad

On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 12:50:43 -0700, "Ray Keller"
<raykeller@rnsmte.com> wrote:

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>What Thomas Jefferson learned from the Muslim book of jihad
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>> By Ted Sampley
>> U.S. Veteran Dispatch
>> January 2007
>>
>> Democrat Keith Ellison is now officially the first Muslim United States
>> congressman. True to his pledge, he placed his hand on the Quran, the
>> Muslim
>> book of jihad and pledged his allegiance to the United States during
>> his
>> ceremonial swearing-in.
>>
>> Capitol Hill staff said Ellison's swearing-in photo opportunity drew
>> more
>> media than they had ever seen in the history of the U.S. House. Ellison
>> represents the 5th Congressional District of Minnesota.
>>
>> The Quran Ellison used was no ordinary book. It once belonged to Thomas
>> Jefferson, third president of the United States and one of America's
>> founding fathers. Ellison borrowed it from the Rare Book Section of the
>> Library of Congress. It was one of the 6,500 Jefferson books archived
>> in the
>> library.
>>
>> Ellison, who was born in Detroit and converted to Islam while in
>> college,
>> said he chose to use Jefferson's Quran because it showed that "a
>> visionary
>> like Jefferson" believed that wisdom could be gleaned from many
>> sources.
>>
>> There is no doubt Ellison was right about Jefferson believing wisdom
>> could
>> be "gleaned" from the Muslim Quran. At the time Jefferson owned the
>> book, he
>> needed to know everything possible about Muslims because he was about
>> to
>> advocate war against the Islamic "Barbary" states of Morocco, Algeria,
>> Tunisia and Tripoli.
>>
>> Ellison's use of Jefferson's Quran as a prop illuminates a subject once
>> well-known in the history of the United States, but, which today, is
>> mostly
>> forgotten - the Muslim pirate slavers who over many centuries enslaved
>> millions of Africans and tens of thousands of Christian Europeans and
>> Americans in the Islamic "Barbary" states.
>>
>> Over the course of 10 centuries, Muslim pirates cruised the African and
>> Mediterranean coastline, pillaging villages and seizing slaves.
>>
>> The taking of slaves in pre-dawn raids on unsuspecting coastal
>> villages had
>> a high casualty rate. It was typical of Muslim raiders to kill off as
>> many
>> of the "non-Muslim" older men and women as possible so the preferred
>> "booty"
>> of only young women and children could be collected.
>>
>> Young non-Muslim women were targeted because of their value as
>> concubines in
>> Islamic markets. Islamic law provides for the sexual interests of
>> Muslim men
>> by allowing them to take as many as four wives at one time and to have
>> as
>> many concubines as their fortunes allow.
>>
>> Boys, as young as 9 or 10 years old, were often mutilated to create
>> eunuchs
>> who would bring higher prices in the slave markets of the Middle East.
>> Muslim slave traders created "eunuch stations" along major African
>> slave
>> routes so the necessary surgery could be performed. It was estimated
>> that
>> only a small number of the boys subjected to the mutilation survived
>> after
>> the surgery.
>>
>> When American colonists rebelled against British rule in 1776, American
>> merchant ships lost Royal Navy protection. With no American Navy for
>> protection, American ships were attacked and their Christian crews
>> enslaved
>> by Muslim pirates operating under the control of the "Dey of
>> Algiers"--an
>> Islamist warlord ruling Algeria.
>>
>> Because American commerce in the Mediterranean was being destroyed by
>> the
>> pirates, the Continental Congress agreed in 1784 to negotiate treaties
>> with
>> the four Barbary States. Congress appointed a special commission
>> consisting
>> of John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin, to oversee the
>> negotiations.
>>
>> Lacking the ability to protect its merchant ships in the
>> Mediterranean, the
>> new America government tried to appease the Muslim slavers by agreeing
>> to
>> pay tribute and ransoms in order to retrieve seized American ships and
>> buy
>> the freedom of enslaved sailors.
>>
>> Adams argued in favor of paying tribute as the cheapest way to get
>> American
>> commerce in the Mediterranean moving again. Jefferson was opposed. He
>> believed there would be no end to the demands for tribute and wanted
>> matters
>> settled "through the medium of war." He proposed a league of trading
>> nations
>> to force an end to Muslim piracy.
>>
>> In 1786, Jefferson, then the American ambassador to France, and Adams,
>> then
>> the American ambassador to Britain, met in London with Sidi Haji Abdul
>> Rahman Adja, the "Dey of Algiers" ambassador to Britain.
>>
>> The Americans wanted to negotiate a peace treaty based on Congress'
>> vote to
>> appease.
>>
>> During the meeting Jefferson and Adams asked the Dey's ambassador why
>> Muslims held so much hostility towards America, a nation with which
>> they had
>> no previous contacts.
>>
>> In a later meeting with the American Congress, 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."
>>
>> For the following 15 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 20
>> percent
>> of United States government annual revenues in 1800.
>>
>> Not long after Jefferson's inauguration as president in 1801, he
>> dispatched
>> a group of frigates to defend American interests in the Mediterranean,
>> and
>> informed Congress.
>>
>> Declaring that America was going to spend "millions for defense but
>> not one
>> cent for tribute," Jefferson pressed the issue by deploying American
>> Marines
>> and many of America's best warships to the Muslim Barbary Coast.
>>
>> The USS Constitution, USS Constellation, USS Philadelphia, USS
>> Chesapeake,
>> USS Argus, USS Syren and USS Intrepid all saw action.
>>
>> In 1805, American Marines marched across the dessert from Egypt into
>> Tripolitania, forcing the surrender of Tripoli and the freeing of all
>> American slaves.
>>
>> During the Jefferson administration, the Muslim Barbary States,
>> crumbling as
>> a result of intense American naval bombardment and on shore raids by
>> Marines, finally officially agreed to abandon slavery and piracy.
>>
>> Jefferson's victory over the Muslims lives on today in the Marine
>> Hymn, with
>> the line, "From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli, we
>> will
>> fight our country's battles on the land as on the sea."
>>
>> It wasn't until 1815 that the problem was fully settled by the total
>> defeat
>> of all the Muslim slave trading pirates.
>>
>> Jefferson had been right. The "medium of war" was the only way to put
>> and
>> end to the Muslim problem. Mr. Ellison was right about Jefferson. He
>> was a
>> "visionary" wise enough to read and learn about the enemy from their
>> own
>> Muslim book of jihad.
>>
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Though a decent article, the writer still dreams that a mongrelized PC
political state, the USA, can defend itself against internal decay and
chaos.

Max

On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 17:07:46 -0700, breecher@lycos.com wrote:

>>> During the meeting Jefferson and Adams asked the Dey's ambassador why
>>> Muslims held so much hostility towards America, a nation with which
>>> they had
>>> no previous contacts.
>>>
>>> In a later meeting with the American Congress, 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."

>Though a decent article, the writer still dreams that a mongrelized PC
>political state, the USA, can defend itself against internal decay and
>chaos.

eat shit and die