Posted by
Dawnsblood on Monday, January 08, 2007 10:21:39 PM
Not likely
what Rep Ellison thinks he did. First
Muslim member of Congress and all...
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 will fight our country's battles on the land as on
the 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.