Posted on 01/12/2015 10:36:50 AM PST by holden
Obama should really pick up a history book sometime, and read about how one of his predecessors, and one of our nation’s Founding Fathers, handled the threat posed by radical Islamic jihadists, way back in 1801.
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According to Jefferson, Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja replied that Islam “was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Qur’an, 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.”
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Eaton, that’s the name yes (his name escaped me for the moment). He was sorely disappointed. He also had to deal with direct superiors who had more interest in diplomatic games than prosecuting the war.
You have your historical figures mixed up. Martel lived centuries before Saladin.
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