America's first "war on terror" Thomas Jefferson and the Barbary Pirates

In 1784 America was awakened to radical islam and jihad! Over 200 years ago we faced the same enemy we face to day, they were muslims that waged war upon ALL non believers of Islam! Look it up "The Barbary Wars" "The Barbary Pirates" "Thomas Jefferson and the Barbary Pirates"
Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it!

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[krimlin85]

Don't use today sea laws on that period , you are betrayers , it's 300 yrs old & the countries had different laws about seas ...

also ,most countries in north of the Mediterranean Sea was Islamic countries & the south same , Ottomans own the sea , so , why the fuk America send Warships to that sea ?!! they try to show off with their crap against Tripoli , the Ottomans arrived & kicked americans away .

** wonders of the new century , Lies of America

[GoingConstitutional]

@krimlin85 Are you on drugs? 300 yr old laws of the sea? And to set the records straight we sent MERCHANT ships to the Med! Ever heard of foriegn trade? Once we were attacked with no provacation we kicked the shit out of tripoli! Not once but twice! Ohhhh and politicians lie Americans don't! America's foriegn policy is written by a handfull of corupted usurpers and DOES NOT reflect the will of the American people!!!

[gram914]

@GoingConstitutional People only quote the passages from the Koran that support their agenda. It is a good thing people do not do that with some of the passages in the Old Testament because they could be used to make the Jewish people sound just as evil as you want folks to think ALL Muslims are. I call that hypocrisy. If you haven't read the whole Old Testament it is time you did. I hope Muslims don't use some of those passages against us .know what I mean !

[GoingConstitutional]

@gram914 Christians follow the New Testament not the Old Testament!

[supremeobliterator]

Oh yes, America has always been a Muslim country according to Mr Obama. I wonder how many Muslims lived in America and put up Mosques during Jeffersons time as President.

[GoingConstitutional]

@supremeobliterator I wonder how Jefferson would feel about a member of Congress taking his oath of office using the quran? Did I mention that is was Thomas Jefferson's quran the very same quran he obtained to "better understand America's enemy"! Those who forget history are condemed to repeat it!

[JIM78559]

IF YOU SAW THIS BECAUSE OF DR. CASHION

[keiweak]

so this is the time when USA doesnt have adequate ship and almost no match for even the lowest muslim pirate of the time and still nearly defeat them..and now the most powerful navy in the world with a more tonnage than the next major navy combine..i pray for the us navy..

[TyZi187]

I watched this because of David Barton and Glenn Beck.

[VirbiusMoon]

@GoingConstitutional - Only when its convenient for them. For instance, they seem quite accustomed to using old testament text to condemn and even legislate their religious prejudice of gay marriages, and they used it to condemn "witches" to death, in the time of the Holy Roman Empire (The Dark Ages) when Christians followed church law.

[VirbiusMoon]

...I heavily doubt Thomas Jefferson would have condoned the continuous, undeclared, preemptive wars that America wages today on the entire Middle East.

[VirbiusMoon]

You left out the part where the U.S. over-threw Iranian DEMOCRACY in 1953, installing a despotic dictator for primarily intrinsic purposes (under the false pretense of communism (not unlike the way the term 'terrorism' is used today) which led to that hostage crisis (my, what a jump in the context of history), and ultimately allowed the fundamentalist Muslim (who is no better than the fundamentalist Christian) to take over in the Iranian revolution of 1979 and install a theocracy...

[muffmagnum]

@GoingConstitutional then why are both in the bible?

[ashburnhouse]

@GoingConstitutional The NT is a tautology of the OT, so no they don't.

[Hperman09]

This war is NOT for religions reasons, it had to do with it's economic trade and it's policy overseas with other African nations. Want war for religions reasons in modern history? Try the Bosnian War for example.

[vexx34ify]

@krimlin85 Most countries north of the Mediterranean Sea were NOT Islamic. They were Christian. Ottomans never "owned" the Mediterranean Sea. I hope you live in the MIddle East, not in the U.S.A. You don't belong in the West because of your ideology which is non compatible with the Western Christian values and way of life.