In Part 1 we shared how Muslim Barbary pirates terrorized ships sailing in the Mediterranean and large parts of the North Atlantic at the height of the eighteenth century. They attacked vessels of any nation, including America, and took whole crews into barbaric slavery, and demanded exorbitant ransom for anyone to be released.
The Islamic nations of Tripoli (Libya), Tunis, Morocco, and Algiers--collectively referred to as the Barbary Coast--presented a dangerous and unprovoked threat to our new nation of America.
In 1784 the United States followed in the footsteps of European nations and began paying bribes to to the Barbary pirates not to attack American ships. For the next fifteen years our 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 twenty percent of the United States government annual revenues in 1800.
Jefferson was disgusted that America was paying ransom to Muslim pirates! 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”. And to free all Christian captives.
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 might 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.
The Marines 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.
This is the forgotten war that changed American history. When Jefferson sent the new U.S. Navy and Marines to blockade Tripoli, launching the Barbary Wars, he actually began our journey toward future superpower status. And American ships were no longer attacked by the Barbary pirates.
Islam, and what its Barbary followers
justified doing in the name of their prophet god, disturbed Jefferson
quite deeply. America had a tradition of religious tolerance. 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 supremacism,
whose holy book 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.
HAS THAT DAY ARRIVED?
This should concern every
American: That the 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, some public schools are pulling pork from their menus, and
on it goes.
Did you know we now have two Muslim women, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, elected to Congress, one a Democrat from Minnesota and the other a Democrat from Michigan? Guess what book they laid their hand on when sworn in? The Quran. And they attack President Trump every chance they get.
Someone has said: "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 confuse what is really happening, and not insisting that the Muslims adapt to our own culture, the United States is cutting its own throat with a politically correct knife, and helping to further the Muslim agenda to make every knee and our nation bow to Allah.Sadly, it appears that many in today’s America would rather be politically correct than victorious."
Did you know we now have two Muslim women, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, elected to Congress, one a Democrat from Minnesota and the other a Democrat from Michigan? Guess what book they laid their hand on when sworn in? The Quran. And they attack President Trump every chance they get.
Someone has said: "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 confuse what is really happening, and not insisting that the Muslims adapt to our own culture, the United States is cutting its own throat with a politically correct knife, and helping to further the Muslim agenda to make every knee and our nation bow to Allah.Sadly, it appears that many in today’s America would rather be politically correct than victorious."
Clear evidence exists in America of a “civilization” jihad in which radical Islam infiltrates our culture as "friends," hollow out the underpinnings of American civilization, its institutions and the U.S. Constitution, and replaces these with the darkness of Sharia law (the law that governs Islam). For more on this check out this video by two of our national security experts: https://binged.it/2TL3GK0
Check out this eye-opening interview during the last administration of a converted Muslim who was sent to America to do "civilization" jihad and now warns of the inroads happening in America. He also says in the interview how he knew former President Obama was a Muslim.
Janet Levy, a prolific writer on Islam and national security, says: "Our uniquely American virtues of tolerance and freedom have worked against us to produce intolerance and oppression. This has led to the stealthy introduction of Shariah Law and a climate in which criticisms of Mohammed and Islam are no longer possible without serious repercussions."
Get informed and and share the truth about this battle with others. And join me in prayer for America's great spiritual awakening, our protection from all who would like to destroy us, and for President Trump's wisdom in dealing with all enemies. Nothing is impossible with our God as we pray and line our lives up with His Word.
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