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Jihad Goes Back To Jefferson and Adams
May 5, 2006 |
Does it really surprise anyone that this jihad nonsense has extended much further back than most Americans remember. Considering that most Americans know little about history we tend to forget what our nation has learned over several hundred years. Therefore we don’t realize it when we repeat the history all over again.
Atlas Shrugs has a good article detailing America’s first war on terror. While meeting with ambassadors to France and Britain in 1786, the Tripolitan Ambassador Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja gave insight relevant for today.
During their discussions, they questioned Ambassador Adja as to the source of the unprovoked animus directed at the nascent United States republic. Jefferson and Adams, in their subsequent report to the Continental Congress, recorded the Tripolitan Ambassador???s justification:
?? 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 who should be slain in Battle was sure to go to Paradise.
Thus as Joshua London???s Victory in Tripoli elaborates in lucid prose, an aggressive jihad was already being waged against the United States almost 200 years prior to America becoming a dominant international power in the Middle East. Moreover, these jihad depredations targeting America antedated the earliest vestiges of the Zionist movement by a century, and the formal creation of Israel by 162 years???exploding the ahistorical canard that American support for the modern Jewish state is a prerequisite for jihadist attacks on the United States.
The key to this is one line. That their goal is one of two ends. Make slaves of all non-Muslims or to die trying. Religion of peace. Yes, but only after the killing is complete.







