Jefferson and Isalm: the 1793 atrocity and the 9/11 atrocity revisited

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), Mar 9, 2007 at 07:11

My dear M&M your ignorance of history is just amazing

It seems that our dear M&M is not aware that the first atrocity committed by Muslims against America goes back to the time of Jefferson in 1793 when 11 US merchant ships were seized and the crew (about 100) were enslaved (oh I forgot that there is no slavery in Islam and Allah says so) by the so called "barbary pirates" aka Muslims. This led to the crash of the new economy of the US with much suffering and the end result was Jefferson declared war against Tripoli and the war went on for about 4 years. Deja Vu?

Did a single Muslim, residing in the US at the time, suffer? Not that I know of.

But this did not change the mind of this great man that all citizens of the US are equal!

Imagine if this would have happened if Americans would have invaded a country in the Muslim world in 1793. we would have expected that non Muslim citizens of such country would have been persecuted, or told to convert to islam (case in point is Egypt during the Crusades) and we will be reminded ad nauseum about poor Muslims and what happened to them.

So much for islamic fantasy

The end of Muslim terrosrim and the barbary pirates was in 1830 when France occupied North Africa.

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