22) Jefferson let the Pasha know, in no uncertain terms, what he could do with his demand. The Pasha responded by cutting down the flagpole at the American consulate and declared war on the United States. Tunis, Morocco, and Algiers immediately followed suit.
23) Jefferson, until now, had been against America raising a naval force for anything beyond coastal defense, but, having watched his nation be cowed by Islamic thuggery for long enough decided that it was finally time to meet force with force.
24) He dispatched a squadron of frigates to the Mediterranean and taught the Muslim nations of the Barbary Coast a lesson he hoped they would never forget.
25) Congress authorized Jefferson to empower U.S. ships to seize all vessels and goods of the Pasha of Tripoli and to "cause to be done all other acts of precaution or hostility as the state of war would justify".
26) When Algiers and Tunis, who were both accustomed to American cowardice and acquiescence saw the newly independent United States had both the will and the right to strike back, they quickly abandoned their allegiance to Tripoli.
27) The war with Tripoli lasted for four more years and raged up again in 1815.
28) The bravery of the U.S. Marine Corps in these wars led to the line "to the shores of Tripoli" in the Marine Hymn, & they would forever be known as "leathernecks" for the leather collars of their uniforms, to prevent their heads from being cut off by Muslim scimitars..
29) ..boarding enemy ships. Islam, and what its Barbary followers justified doing in the name of their prophet and their god disturbed Jefferson quite deeply.
30) America had a tradition of religious tolerance. In fact, Jefferson, himself, had co-authored the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, but fundamentalist Islam was like no other religion the world had ever seen.
31) A religion based on supremacy, whose holy book not only condoned but mandated violence against unbelievers was unacceptable to him. His greatest fear was that someday this brand of Islam would return and pose an even greater threat to the United States.
32) This should concern every American. Muslims have brought about women-only classes & swimming times in America at taxpayer-funded universities & public pools;
https://t.co/wCmLMg4Jol
Columbia Association to hold woman only swimming times…
33) …that Christians, Jews, & Hindus have been banned from serving on juries where Muslim defendants are being judged; …
Attorney wants to exclude Jews from Abdel Hameed Shehadeh’s upcoming terror trial
https://t.co/bGaBGv9nRe
34) Piggy banks and Porky Pig tissue dispensers have been banned from workplaces because they offend Islamist sensibilities;
35) …ice cream was discontinued at certain Burger King locations because the picture on the wrapper looked similar to the Arabic script for Allah; public schools are pulling pork from their menus; on and on and on and on…
https://t.co/Y3oXVeUmxJ
36) It's death by a thousand cuts, or inch-by-inch as some refer to it, and most Americans have no idea that this battle is being waged every day across America.
37) By not fighting back, by allowing groups to obfuscate what is really happening, and not insisting that the Islamists adapt to our culture, the United States is cutting its own throat with a politically correct knife and helping to further the Islamists' agenda.
38) It appears that today America's leaders would rather be politically correct than victorious! IF YOU DO NOT REMEMBER THE PAST, YOU ARE DOOMED TO REPEAT IT. Stop the non-stop bowing to ISLAM at the expense of all other religions.
39) It's not religious freedom, it's intolerance in its most egregious form. Stop letting liberals assign new meanings to old words. Start standing up for your freedom. Our Constitution is NOT a flexible document to be changed on a whim.The time is now to stand up!
40) This meme is more & more fitting as the liberal ideology aligns itself with radical conservative Islam. It really is a weird alliance. They think they're going to get two images on the left, but end up on the right watering their own hanging tree.
Sources for Thomas Jefferson's Qu'ran Thread
https://www.city-journal.org/html/jefferson-versus-muslim-pirates-13013.html
Eric D July's Response to Carlos Maza of Vox