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The Boston bombings, the Fort Hood shootings, the events of 9/11, and numerous international Islamic terrorist activities are only new to people who have no sense of history.
Most Americans are familiar with the first line of the United States Marine Corps hymn, From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli but most likely dont know the source of the Tripoli reference. The line to the shores of Tripoli refers to the First Barbary War, specifically the Battle of Derna, that took place in 1805.
Yes! Even Our earliest founders were familiar with the terrorist ways of radical Islamists. Thomas Jefferson, who was serving as the ambassador to France, and John Adams, the Ambassador to Britain, met in London with Ambassador Abdrahaman, the Dey of Tripolis ambassador to Britain, in an attempt to negotiate a peace treaty. Peace for an Islamist means surrender to Islam.
Jefferson and Adams tried to argue that America was not at war with Tripoli. In what way had the U.S provoked the Muslims, they asked? Ambassador Abdrahaman went on to explain the finer points of Islamic jihad to the Koranically challenged Jefferson and Adams. In a letter to John Jay, Jefferson wrote the following:
The Ambassador answered us that it was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, 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.
Now understand that if you mention the word "Holy War" with liberals around they will respond the same way as if you had mentioned McArthy's expose of Communist.
Therefore; the question is. Are the liberals just ignorant to the point of stupidity or are they trying to destroy all we stand for?
That is the question!
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1. The Barbary states were a nation of pirates, who raided the Mediterranean trade routes. Nations gave them tribute. The United States went to war, and sort of stalemated. There was nothing 'holy' or religious about it.
2. You do realize that the McCarthyist era the United States had is probably the most disappointing part of our history since the Salem witch trials? Thousands of people had their lives ruined, because one guy who had power wanted to point fingers at whoever wasn't nice to him. If that doesn't sound awful to you, then I suppose you'd fit in quite well into the KGB.