[PeterPrinciple]

Legacy
The history of Muslim enslavement of white Europeans has been cited by some as contextualising the importance of subsequent European and American enslavement of blacks. Scholar Robert Davis noted that the larger picture isn’t so one-sided: during a “clash of empires... taking slaves was part of the conflict,” and at the same time 2 million Europeans were enslaved by Muslims in North Africa and the Near East, 1 million Muslim slaves in Europe.[36]

As Dr. John Callow at University of Suffolk notes, the experience of enslavement by the Barbary pirates preceded the Atlantic slave trade and “the memory of slavery, and the methodology of slaving, that was burned into the British consciousness was first and foremost rooted in a North African context, where Britons were more likely to be slaves than slave masters.”[37]

[PeterPrinciple]

Until the American Declaration of Independence in 1776, British treaties with the North African states protected American ships from the Barbary corsairs. Morocco, which in 1777 was the first independent nation to publicly recognize the United States, in 1784 became the first Barbary power to seize an American vessel after the nation achieved independence.[citation needed] The Barbary threat led directly to the United States founding the United States Navy in March 1794. While the United States did secure peace treaties with the Barbary states, it was obliged to pay tribute for protection from attack. The burden was substantial: from 1795, the annual tribute paid to the Regency of Algiers amounted to 20% of United States federal government’s annual expenditures.[27]

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20% of fed budget to muslims for tribute. What do we pay now?

[Pontiac]

After 1800 years of Muslim predations and belligerence you would think that we would have the good sense not to invite them in to our nation and not permit them to be active in our politics.

Not until Teddy Kennedy started his multiculturalism non-sense did the United States start admitting Muslims in any significant numbers or grant them citizenship.

It simply does not make sense to admit enemies in to your country or allow them to travel freely in your lands.