long history of Islam's antipathy to the West

Submitted by Shepard Barbash (United States), Nov 7, 2006 at 15:33

On page 75 of his biography of Jefferson, Joseph Ellis in American Sphinx writes:

"In a joint message to their superiors in Congress, Adams and Jefferson described the audacity of these terrorist attacks, pirates leaping onto defenseless ships with daggers clenched in their teeth. They had asked the ambassador from Tripoli, Adams and Jefferson explained, on what grounds these outrageous acts of unbridled savagery could be justified: 'The Ambassador answered us that it was founded on the Laws of the Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, 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. . . .' "

So it's not like we haven't been warned before about the threat of Islam. And yet, the US--this nation "not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion"-- keeps doing the Christian thing and turns the other cheek.

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