OBAMA SHOULD HAVE LEARNED FROM THOMAS JEFFERSON, BUT DIDN'T!

Submitted by: Kurt J Wagner

From The Shores Near Aleppo,... A must read of our history!- Thought you might find this read very interesting. Especially in the   world we live in today.  An Interesting piece of forgotten U.S. History.. God Bless America...                 Remember: Those who fail to learn the lessons of history, are bound  to repeat   its failures.      When Thomas Jefferson saw there was no negotiating with Muslims, he   formed what is the 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. That's 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   government and family members 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 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.   Didn't know where the leatherneck term came from!   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 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. But in turn several   American companies have placed the Muslim symbol on their products in   the name of Allah; 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 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 America's   leaders would rather be politically correct than victorious! If you have any doubts about the above information, Google "Thomas   Jefferson vs. the Muslim World."