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>What Thomas Jefferson learned from the Muslim book of jihad

>_By Ted Sampley_ (http://www.usvetdsp.com/sampbio.htm)
>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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