What Thomas Jefferson learned from the Muslim book of jihad
THE U.S. VETERAN DISPATCH
Publisher - Ted Sampley
Tel. 252-527-0442
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What Thomas Jefferson learned
from the Muslim book of jihad
By Ted Sampley
U.S. Veteran Dispatch
January 2007
Democrat Keith Ellison is now officially the first Muslim United
States congressman. True to his pledge, he placed his hand on the
Quran, the
Muslim book of jihad and pledged his allegiance to the United States
during
his ceremonial swearing-in.
Capitol Hill staff said Ellison's swearing-in photo opportunity
drew more media than they had ever seen in the history of the U.S.
House.
Ellison represents the 5th Congressional District of Minnesota.
The Quran Ellison used was no ordinary book. It once belonged to
Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States and one of
America's
founding fathers. Ellison borrowed it from the Rare Book Section of
the
Library of Congress. It was one of the 6,500 Jefferson books
archived in the
library.
Ellison, who was born in Detroit and converted to Islam while in
college, said he chose to use Jefferson's Quran because it showed
that "a
visionary like Jefferson" believed that wisdom could be gleaned from
many
sources.
There is no doubt Ellison was right about Jefferson believing
wisdom could be "gleaned" from the Muslim Quran. At the time
Jefferson owned
the book, he needed to know everything possible about Muslims
because he was
about to advocate war against the Islamic "Barbary" states of
Morocco,
Algeria, Tunisia and Tripoli.
Ellison's use of Jefferson's Quran as a prop illuminates a
subject once well-known in the history of the United States, but,
which
today, is mostly forgotten - the Muslim pirate slavers who over many
centuries enslaved millions of Africans and tens of thousands of
Christian
Europeans and Americans in the Islamic "Barbary" states.
Over the course of 10 centuries, Muslim pirates cruised the
African and Mediterranean coastline, pillaging villages and seizing
slaves.
The taking of slaves in pre-dawn raids on unsuspecting coastal
villages had a high casualty rate. It was typical of Muslim raiders
to kill
off as many of the "non-Muslim" older men and women as possible so
the
preferred "booty" of only young women and children could be
collected.
Young non-Muslim women were targeted because of their value as
concubines in Islamic markets. Islamic law provides for the sexual
interests
of Muslim men by allowing them to take as many as four wives at one
time and
to have as many concubines as their fortunes allow.
Boys, as young as 9 or 10 years old, were often mutilated to
create eunuchs who would bring higher prices in the slave markets of
the
Middle East. Muslim slave traders created "eunuch stations" along
major
African slave routes so the necessary surgery could be performed. It
was
estimated that only a small number of the boys subjected to the
mutilation
survived after the surgery.
When American colonists rebelled against British rule in 1776,
American merchant ships lost Royal Navy protection. With no American
Navy
for protection, American ships were attacked and their Christian
crews
enslaved by Muslim pirates operating under the control of the "Dey
of
Algiers"--an Islamist warlord ruling Algeria.
Because American commerce in the Mediterranean was being
destroyed by the pirates, the Continental Congress agreed in 1784 to
negotiate treaties with the four Barbary States. Congress appointed
a
special commission consisting of John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and
Benjamin
Franklin, to oversee the negotiations.
Lacking the ability to protect its merchant ships in the
Mediterranean, the new America government tried to appease the
Muslim
slavers by agreeing to pay tribute and ransoms in order to retrieve
seized
American ships and buy the freedom of enslaved sailors.
Adams argued in favor of paying tribute as the cheapest way to
get American commerce in the Mediterranean moving again. Jefferson
was
opposed. He believed there would be no end to the demands for
tribute and
wanted matters settled "through the medium of war." He proposed a
league of
trading nations to force an end to Muslim piracy.
In 1786, Jefferson, then the American ambassador to France, and
Adams, then the American ambassador to Britain, met in London with
Sidi Haji
Abdul Rahman Adja, the "Dey of Algiers" ambassador to Britain.
The Americans wanted to negotiate a peace treaty based on
Congress' vote to appease.
During the meeting Jefferson and Adams asked the Dey's ambassador
why Muslims held so much hostility towards America, a nation with
which they
had no previous contacts.
In a later meeting with the American Congress, the two future
presidents reported that Ambassador Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja had
answered
that Islam "was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was
written in
their Quran, 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, and that every Musselman (Muslim) who should be slain
in
Battle was sure to go to Paradise."
For the following 15 years, the American government paid the
Muslims millions of dollars for the safe passage of American ships
or the
return of American hostages. The payments in ransom and tribute
amounted to
20 percent of United States government annual revenues in 1800.
Not long after Jefferson's inauguration as president in 1801, he
dispatched a group of frigates to defend American interests in the
Mediterranean, and informed Congress.
Declaring that America was going to spend "millions for defense
but not one cent for tribute," Jefferson pressed the issue by
deploying
American Marines and many of America's best warships to the Muslim
Barbary
Coast.
The USS Constitution, USS Constellation, USS Philadelphia, USS
Chesapeake, USS Argus, USS Syren and USS Intrepid all saw action.
In 1805, American Marines marched across the desert from Egypt
into Tripolitania, forcing the surrender of Tripoli and the freeing
of all
American slaves.
During the Jefferson administration, the Muslim Barbary States,
crumbling as a result of intense American naval bombardment and on
shore
raids by Marines, finally officially agreed to abandon slavery and
piracy.
Jefferson's victory over the Muslims lives on today in the Marine
Hymn, with the line, "From the halls of Montezuma, to the shores of
Tripoli,
We fight our country's battles in the air, on land and sea."
It wasn't until 1815 that the problem was fully settled by the
total defeat of all the Muslim slave trading pirates.
Jefferson had been right. The "medium of war" was the only way to
put and end to the Muslim problem. Mr. Ellison was right about
Jefferson. He
was a "visionary" wise enough to read and learn about the enemy from
their
own Muslim book of jihad.
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