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Thomas Jefferson Tripoli

Posted: 2014-08-14 12:18am
by Darth Yan
An argument I've seen recently by groups such as renew america. Basically they claim that Islam has been the enemy since the founding of america due to some meeting with the ambassador of tripoli in which the ambassador said

Jefferson reported the ambassador's response to Congress: "[That right] was founded upon the Laws of the Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have answered 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 who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise."


How much accuracy is in this claim?

Re: Thomas Jefferson Triploi

Posted: 2014-08-14 02:44am
by madd0ct0r
more accurate then their claim this motivates their dislike of islam.

Re: Thomas Jefferson Triploi

Posted: 2014-08-14 03:27am
by Thanas
It is fucking hilarious to anybody who knows anything about 18th century politics and how tripoli worked.

Re: Thomas Jefferson Triploi

Posted: 2014-08-14 02:02pm
by FTeik
Wasn't Tripoli a huge pirate-base at that time?

Re: Thomas Jefferson Triploi

Posted: 2014-08-14 02:24pm
by Dr. Trainwreck
Yeah, no. Some people don't know what piracy means.

Also, you have a tpyo in yuor tlite. :mrgreen:

Re: Thomas Jefferson Tripoli

Posted: 2014-08-16 06:46am
by K. A. Pital
Fixed. You may go on. :)