I had no
idea! Were the authors of U.S. History books lying liberals going all the
way to when we were in high school, or was I just not paying
attention?
The
Marine Hymn ''To the shores of Tripoli"....... Interesting concise history
lesson and a good reminder. A bit long but very good
reading!
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 (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 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 u\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.
