[alligator]

People need to review the history when it comes to America and Islam. There is a good book "Pirate Coast: Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines, and the Secret Mission of 1805" I highly recommend this book for those who want to know the whole history of the US and our relationship regarding the muslims.

The book begins with a history of the Muslim attacks on the shipping and coastal villages throughout all of Europe and the Mediterranean. For well over 400 yrs these people had terrorized the people, destroying villages, raping and murdering the people, and enslaving hundreds of thousands of people. To buy peace with the Muslims, the European countries paid ransoms and tribute, which would buy a temporary lull in the attacks. And then a jihad would be called (because of any number of idiotic reasons) and they would be back at war until a new, more costly peace was purchased.

The soft-hearted liberals often feel that we caused their hatred. That just isn't so. And nothing short of all converting will ever appease them. It took Thomas Jeffereson to show the world how to handle these people... And he had to fight with his congress just as much as our current President is having to.

Those who don't remember history....
....are doomed to repeat it.

[ZULU]

GREAT BOOK.

But the episode of the Barbary Pirates is but a single snapshot in the sordid history of this cult - others include the invasion and focrible conversion of western Asia and Anatolia, Egypt and North Africa, Sicily and souther Italy, and Iberia.

This is being repeated right now in the Sudan, in Egypt, in Nigeria, in India and in many other places.

[SuziQ]

I didn't see your post before mentioning the pirates; I'd read it elsewhere. I'll have to look for that book!