THE HISTORY OF THE MERCHANT MARINES & MARINE CORP https://twitter.com/Declas2019/status/1133751900988465153 Never forget, and never forget the beginning of the United States Marine Corp. They don't want you to know this story…
WHY DID THOMAS JEFFERSON OWN A QU'RAN?
1) A quick primer on Thomas Jefferson's Qu'ran and why he owned one:
Here's a little history lesson for you that your children are NOT currently learning in school.
A 232 Year History of our fight against Islam & why it is no longer taught in our public schools… When Thomas Jefferson saw there was no negotiating with Muslims, he formed what is now the Marines (seagoing soldiers).
3) These Marines were attached to U. S. Merchant vessels. When the Muslims attacked U.S. merchant vessels they were repulsed by armed soldiers, but there is more.
4) The Marines followed the Muslims back to their villages and killed every man, woman, and child in the village.
5) It didn't take long for the Muslims to leave U.S. Merchant vessels alone.
English and French merchant vessels started running up our flag when entering the Mediterranean to secure safe travel.
6) This is why the Marine Hymn contains the verse, "To the Shores of Tripoli ".
This is very interesting and a must-read piece of our history. It points out where we may be heading.
7) Most Americans are unaware of the fact that over two hundred years ago the United States had declared war on Islam, and Thomas Jefferson led the charge!
8) At the height of the 18th century, Muslim pirates (the "Barbary Pirates") were the terror of the Mediterranean and a large area of the North Atlantic.
(EVER HEAR OF BLACKBEARD?)
9) They attacked every ship in sight and held the crews for exorbitant ransoms. Those taken hostage were subjected to barbaric treatment and wrote heart-breaking letters home, begging their governments and families to pay whatever their Mohammedan captors demanded.
10) These extortionists of the high seas represented the North African Islamic nations of Tripoli, Tunis, Morocco, and Algiers - collectively referred to as the Barbary Coast - and presented a dangerous and unprovoked threat to the new American Republic.
11) Before the Revolutionary War, U.S. merchant ships had been under the protection of Great Britain. When the U.S. declared its independence and entered into war, the ships of the United States were protected by France.
12) However, once the war was won, America had to protect its own fleets. Thus, the birth of the U.S. Navy. Beginning in 1784, 17 (Q) years before he would become president, Thomas Jefferson became America's Minister to France.
13) That same year, the U.S. Congress sought to appease its Muslim adversaries by following in the footsteps of European nations who paid
bribes to the Barbary States rather than engaging them in war.
14) In July of 1785, Algerian pirates captured American ships and the Dye of Algiers demanded an unheard-of ransom of $60,000. It was a plain and simple case of extortion and Thomas Jefferson was vehemently opposed to any further payments.
15) Instead, he proposed to Congress the formation of a coalition of allied nations who together could force the Islamic states into peace. A disinterested Congress decided to pay the ransom.
16) In 1786, Thomas Jefferson & John Adams met with Tripoli's ambassador to Great Britain to ask why his nation attacked American ships & enslaved American citizens, why Muslims held so much hostility toward America, a nation with which they had no previous contact.
17) The two future presidents reported that Ambassador Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja had answered that Islam "was founded on the Laws of their Prophet,…
18) That it was written in their Quran that all nations who would not acknowledge their authority were sinners, that it was their right & duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, to make slaves of all they could take as prisoners,…
19) that every Musselman (Muslim) who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise." Despite this stunning admission of premeditated violence on non-Muslim nations, as well as the objections of many notable American leaders, including George Washington,..
20) who warned that caving in was wrong & would only further embolden the enemy, for the following fifteen years, the American government paid the Muslims millions of dollars for the safe passage of American ships or the return of American hostages
21) The payments in ransom and tribute amounted to over 20 percent of the United States government annual revenues in 1800. Jefferson was disgusted.