Subject:
Marine Hymn (Regarding Muslims)
Think
that Islamic jihadists are not real? Read this!
ANYONE
who went through school in the United States SHOULD HAVE
BEEN TAUGHT THIS. If you have forgotten, it's time to remember and to demand
SOMEBODY in DC live up to what Thomas Jefferson understood so well.
Why the Marine Hymn
contains the verse to the shores of Tripoli
Muslim pirates of
the past: Many 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
eighteenth century, Muslim 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 the high seas represented the Islamic nation 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,
seventeen 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 Dey 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 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."
Despite of 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 twenty 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 is 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, the fact that 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 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 bother 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 in the newspapers.
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's America be politically correct rather than
victorious. Where's Tom Jefferson when we need him?
Any
doubts, just Google Thomas Jefferson vs the Muslim World here: