Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, then serving as American ambassadors to France and Britain, respectively, met in 1786 in London with the Tripolitan Ambassador to Britain, Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja. These future American presidents were attempting to negotiate a peace treaty which would spare the United States the ravages of jihad piracy—murder, enslavement (with ransoming for redemption), and expropriation of valuable commercial assets—emanating from the Barbary states (modern Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya, known collectively in Arabic as the Maghrib). During their discussions, they questioned Ambassador Adja as to the source of the unprovoked animus directed at the nascent United States republic. Jefferson and Adams, in their subsequent report to the Continental Congress, recorded the Tripolitan Ambassador’s justification:

“… that it was founded on the Laws of their 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, and that every Musselman who should be slain in Battle was sure to go to Paradise.”

Says Ted Sampley:

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.

History is rarely created. Most often it is merely repeated.

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• 1979: US embassy in Iran is stormed and hostages held for 444 days. One of those terrorists is now the President in Iran. Sixty-six hostages were taken. Eight US servicemen from a Joint Special Operations Group were killed in an aborted rescue attempt. This attack was done by Muslim terrorists.
• 1982: US embassy in Beirut is bombed. 63 people are killed. 18 of them are Americans. This attack was done by Muslim terrorists.
• 1983: US Marine barracks is blown up by a truck bomb. 241 Americans are killed. 220 of those killed were Marines. This attack was done by Muslim terrorists.
• 1985: The Achilles Lauro is taken over by terrorists and American, Leo Klinghoffer, is killed and thrown overboard in his wheelchair. This attack was done by Muslim terrorists.
• 1988: Passenger jet, Pan Am Flight 103, is bombed and crashes in Lockerbie, Scotland. 270 people from 21 countries were killed. 189 of the victims were American. This attack was done by Muslim terrorists.
• 1993: The World Trade Center is bombed. Ramzi Yousef, the chief planner, was involved in another bombing conspiracy. In January 1995, Yousef and his associates plotted to blow up eleven U.S. commercial aircraft in one spectacular day of terrorist rage. In the ’93 bombing 6 people were killed and over 1,000 were wounded. This attack was done by Muslim terrorists.
• 1996: Housing complex in Saudi Arabia occupied by the US Air Force is bombed. 19 Americans are killed and 200 people injured. This attack was done by Muslim terrorists.
• 1998: US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya are bombed. 213 were killed and over 4,000 were injured as simultaneous car bombs were detonated. This attack was done by Muslim terrorists.
• 2000: The USS Cole is attacked in Yemen’s harbor. 17 Sailors were killed and 39 others were injured by the explosion. This attack was done by Muslim terrorists.
• 2001: The World Trade Center is destroyed, the Pentagon is hit, and a plane goes down in a Pennsylvania field. 2,749 are killed in the Twin Towers. There is still 10,000 unidentified bone and tissue fragments that cannot be matched to the list of the dead. 45 killed on Flight 93 and everyone on Flight 77 died and 125 people were killed as it crashed into the Pentagon. This attack was done by Muslim terrorists.
• 2004: Beslan School Bombing, Russia. 171 children were killed and over 200 adults when extremists took more than 1,000 people hostage in a Russian school for three days. The things that happened in that school during that time are unthinkable. People were fighting over urine to drink. children killed. Parents executed in front of their children. Bombs strung all around them. This attack was done by Muslim terrorists.
• 2004: A train in Madrid, Spain is bombed in a series of 10 explosions. 191 people are killed and almost 1,500 people are wounded. This attack was done by Muslim terrorists.
• 2005: London Transit attacks on 7/7 and second attempt on 7/21. Four bomb attacks were carried out during rush hour. 56 people were killed and 700 injured. This attack was done by Muslim terrorists.
• 2010: Sunni suicide bombers targeted Shia pilgrims in Pakistan during Islam’s holiest month, making this a Ramadan to remember. In all there were over a thousand dead bodies across twenty-two countries. These attacks were done by Muslim terrorists.

Now let’s look at just some recent events from 2010:

• Five Muslim men planned an armed terrorist attack on a Sydney army base to further the cause of Islam by killing as many people as possible. Prosecutor Nick Robinson SC said the men took a number of steps in preparation for the attack, including sending one of their number to Somalia to obtain a fatwa or religious decree to permit the plan to go ahead. The plan was that five or six men armed with high powered weapons would enter the Holsworthy Army Base and fire at and kill as many people as possible before they were either killed or overwhelmed.
• Somali troops narrowly averted a potentially devastating Shabaab suicide attack at the main seaport in Mogadishu. A Shabaab fighter hijacked a fuel tanker and forced the driver at gunpoint to ram the security checkpoint at the seaport. Somali troops shot out the tires of the truck and fired into the cab as well, wounding the driver and suicide bomber. The suicide bomber was found with a bag packed with explosives. A Somali police officer told Reuters that the Shabaab fighter clearly had tried to detonate the bomb at the seaport.
• Gunmen stormed the house of a Sunni cleric in Baghdad and cut his head off before setting him on fire.
• A suicide bomber set off a powerful blast near a busy market in Russia’s restive North Caucasus, killing at least 17 people and wounding dozens. The attacker detonated a bomb packed with metal bars, bolts and ball bearings in a car outside the entrance to the public market.
• An 11-year-old Muslim girl is in very serious conditions after she was raped on 2 September, during the holy month of Ramadan, by her teacher at the Hogalpatia Hafezia Madrassah, an Islamic school she attends in Madaripur District in Dhaka.
• Panicked teachers in Thailand’s restive south stayed home from school Wednesday after two teachers were killed in broad daylight amid threats from suspected Muslim insurgents that 20 would die. The Narathiwat Teachers Federation called for more than 300 schools across the province to close Wednesday for several days.
• A powerful Muslim clan carefully planned and carried out the killings of 57 people – including 30 journalists – in the Philippines’ worst massacre.
• A Palestinian national, Abdalaziz Aziz Hamayel, has been arrested in South Florida after he was accused to attempting to purchase hundreds of stolen weapons. According to a criminal complaint against Hamayel, the suspect attempted to purchase 300 weapons, which he knew were stolen, and the weapons were headed to “his people.”
• A suicide bomber struck at a police residential colony, killing at least 21 people, including women and children, and injuring over 40 others, at Kohat in northwest Pakistan today. The attacker detonated an explosive-laden vehicle shortly after ‘iftar’, the evening meal to break the fast during the Islamic holy month of Ramzan.
• A bomb exploded in a nightclub in Tajikistan’s capital Dushanbe overnight, wounding seven people. Two high-ranking sources within the security services said they had arrested two radical Islamists in connection with the explosion, which followed an attack on Friday by suicide car bombers on a police station in another part of the country.
• The UN refugee agency said Tuesday that 230 civilians had been killed during fighting between government forces and Islamist rebels over the past two weeks in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu.
• At least 19 people, among them nine school children, were killed and 46 injured on Monday in yet another suicide bombing in Pakistan, this time targeting a police station in Lakki Marwat, a town in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
• Egyptian cleric Salem Abu Al-Futuh recently said, “The nation of Islam will return – despite our current crisis and despite the arrogance of the West. The West is bound to be destroyed. Just like Allah destroyed the Byzantine and Persian empires, He will destroy the West at the hands of the Muslims. This is an unequivocal promise. These countries will convert to Islam. Islam will reach these countries.”

Yet the world’s media, and the cultural Progressives, continue to apologize for these “random” acts of violence, acts that have “nothing” in common, are done only by a “few” extremists, and are really our fault because we’re so “mean” to them.

Folks keep telling me that there are millions of peaceful, moderate Muslims, that Islam is a religion of peace. If that is true, then it is time for the truly peace-loving Muslims to take back their religion that was hijacked by murderers. Until that happens then I say there are NO moderate, peace-loving Muslims, and The Religion Of Peace is really a conquering, murdering Religion Of Death. I say that Islam is every bit as dangerous as Nazism in the 1940s and Stalinism in the 1950s, and it needs to be eradicated completely from this planet. What I see of Islam is that it is in direct conflict with Freedom and Christianity, two things I hold very dear, and therefore presents a clear and present danger to me and how I chose to live my life.

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The “General Strategic Goal for North America” of the Muslim Brotherhood states: “The process of settlement is a ‘Civilization-Jihadist Process’ with all the word means. The Ikhwan ["Brotherhood"] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and “sabotaging” its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.”

Your tax dollars hard at work.

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A 20-year-old woman from Iraq has died in an Arizona hospital, nearly two weeks after her father, police say, ran her over with a car because she had become “too Westernized.”

Noor Faleh Almaleki died Monday of injuries suffered when she was run over October 20 in a parking lot in the Phoenix suburb of Peoria, Arizona, police there said. Authorities said they expect to change the aggravated assault charge against her father, Faleh Hassan Almaleki, 48, to more severe counts after meetings with prosecutors, Peoria police announced.

Peoria police said Faleh Hassan Almaleki believed his daughter had become “too Westernized” and had abandoned “traditional” Iraqi values. Peoria police spokesman Mike Tellef told CNN the family moved to the Phoenix area in the mid-1990s, and Almaleki was unhappy with his daughter’s style of dress and her resistance to his rules.

After the incident, Almaleki’s father drove to Mexico, abandoning his vehicle in Nogales, Peoria police said. He then made his way to Mexico City and boarded a plane to Britain, where authorities denied him entry into the country and put him on a plane back to the United States, police said.

A friend of the daughter, Amal Edan Khalaf, 43, also suffered serious injuries in the attack, police said. Almaleki faces a separate aggravated assault charge in connection with her injuries.

He is currently held in Phoenix, with bail has been set at $5 million, Tellef said.

Says the New York Daily News:

At a court hearing over the weekend in Phoenix, county prosecutor Stephanie Low told a judge that Almaleki admitted to committing the crime.

“By his own admission, this was an intentional act and the reason was that his daughter had brought shame on him and his family,” Low said. “This was an attempt at an honor killing.”

Family members had told police that Almaleki attacked his daughter because he believed she had become too Westernized and was not living according to his traditional Iraqi values.

The Religion Of Peace™, once again.

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For the first time since he took over in the White House, Americans don’t see eye to eye with President Barack Obama on the important issues, according to a new national poll.

According to the poll, which was released Tuesday, 48 percent of people questioned say that they agree with Obama on the issues that matter most to them, with 51 percent saying no.

Most Americans, 56 percent, don’t approve of the Norwegian Nobel Committee’s decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to Barack Obama, and only a third believe that Obama has done enough to deserve the prize.

“Obama is facing crunch time on a number of controversial issues, from health care to financial regulation to cap and trade to Afghanistan,” says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland.

And why is this? Says Pat Buchanan:

The alienation and radicalization of white America began long before Obama arrived. He acknowledged as much when he explained Middle Pennsylvanians to puzzled progressives in that closed-door meeting in San Francisco.

Referring to the white working-class voters in the industrial towns decimated by job losses, Obama said: “They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”

In their lifetimes, they have seen their Christian faith purged from schools their taxes paid for, and mocked in movies and on TV. They have seen their factories shuttered in the thousands and their jobs outsourced in the millions to Mexico and China. They have seen trillions of tax dollars go for Great Society programs, but have seen no Great Society, only rising crime, illegitimacy, drug use and dropout rates.

They watch on cable TV as illegal aliens walk into their country, are rewarded with free educations and health care and take jobs at lower pay than American families can live on – then carry Mexican flags in American cities and demand U.S. citizenship.

They see Wall Street banks bailed out as they sweat their next paycheck, then read that bank profits are soaring, and the big bonuses for the brilliant bankers are back. Neither they nor their kids ever benefited from affirmative action, unlike Barack and Michelle Obama.

They see a government in Washington that cannot balance its books, win our wars or protect our borders. The government shovels out trillions to Fortune 500 corporations and banks to rescue the country from a crisis created by the government and Fortune 500 corporations and banks.

America was once their country. They sense they are losing it. And they are right.

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A pistol-packing pastor who drew national attention earlier this year for hosting a “God-and-Guns” event at his church is stepping down from the pulpit to serve his flock with a new mission.

Pastor Ken Pagano ended his 30-year career last month when he resigned from the New Bethel Church in Louisville, Ky., saying that he wants to focus on church security and Second Amendment rights — a crusade he insists is better fought outside the ministry.

“Thirty years was a good, long run, but it’s time for a change,” Pagano told the Washington Times. “If I can write my own ticket, I want to get involved more in Second Amendment issues as they affect the church, and I can do more from outside the pulpit than from behind it,” Pagano told the paper.

About 200 people attended Pagano’s “Open Carry Celebration” at the New Bethel Church in June. The event commemorated the roles of religion and gun ownership in American history, and included a handgun raffle. Attendees were also provided with firearms-safety information.

While Pagano says the event drew mostly positive responses, it made him realize that he might have another calling — keeping worshippers safe.

Pagano has since teamed up with New York Rabbi Gary Moskowitz, who has worked to protect synagogues from terrorist attacks, to form the International Security Coalition of Clergy, an organization dedicated to “making the vulnerable less vulnerable,” according to their mission statement.

The group promotes the use of armed and trained security at houses of worship. Kentucky law allows residents to carry guns openly in public, with restrictions.

“Churches are very soft targets and very vulnerable to attack from terrorists and other homegrown, disgruntled individuals,” Pagano told The Washington Times. “Unfortunately, most religious leaders are living in denial,” he told the paper.

Pretend, for a moment, that you’re a criminal. You want to either steal folk’s stuff, or cause general mayhem. Would you target some place where the people might have guns, or would you target a place where you are confident no one has a gun, and where most people will simply give up without a fight?

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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has raised the stakes against Israel by describing the Holocaust as a lie, just as world powers are trying to decide how to deal with the nuclear ambitions of an Iran in political turmoil.

“The pretext (Holocaust) for the creation of the Zionist regime (Israel) is false … It is a lie based on an unprovable and mythical claim,” he told worshippers at Tehran University at the end of an annual anti-Israel “Qods (Jerusalem) Day” rally.

“Confronting the Zionist regime is a national and religious duty.”

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that confronting Israel is a national and religious duty. A holy war.

From The New York Times:

In a speech to a pro-Palestinian rally, which also fell on the eve of the Jewish New Year, Mr. Ahmadinejad called confrontation with “the Zionist regime” a “national and religious duty,” news reports said.

Several reports quoted him as saying the Holocaust was false pretext for the establishment of Israel in 1948. “It is a lie” based on an unprovable and “mythical claim,” he was quoted as saying in the speech.

Mr. Ahmadinejad said the Israeli “regime has no future. Its life has come to an end,” Reuters reported.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that Israel’s life has come to an end. An ultimatum.

From Breitbart:

Experts at the world’s top atomic watchdog are in agreement that Tehran has the ability to make a nuclear bomb and is on the way to developing a missile system able to carry an atomic warhead, according to a secret report seen by The Associated Press.

The document drafted by senior officials at the International Atomic Energy Agency is the clearest indication yet that the agency’s leaders share Washington’s views on Iran’s weapon-making capabilities.

The document says Iran has “sufficient information” to build a bomb. It says Iran is likely to “overcome problems” on developing a delivery system.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad can build a nuke whenever he wants. All he needs now it to perfect his missile to deliver the nuke. Anyone want to guess where the first missile would be aimed?

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The Iranian authorities have ordered the family of Neda Agha Soltan out of their Tehran home after shocking images of her death were circulated around the world.

Neighbours said that her family no longer lives in the four-floor apartment building on Meshkini Street, in eastern Tehran, having been forced to move since she was killed. The police did not hand the body back to her family, her funeral was cancelled, she was buried without letting her family know and the government banned mourning ceremonies at mosques, the neighbours said.

Just damn.

Not content with killing Neda for no reason, not content with giving her lifeless body back to her family, not content with burying her without letting her parents know, the leadership of Iran has thrown her family out of their home.

Iran’s leader is Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. A lot of the protests are focusing squarely on him.

Where I come from, once an animal goes wild there is only one thing you can do about it.

Of course our Teleprompter Reader, elected by 60 million of you, still thinks a rousing stanza of “Kum Ba Yah” can solve this crisis. Hope And Change.

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The St. Gabriel Possenti Society promotes the public recognition of St. Gabriel Possenti, including his Vatican designation as Patron Saint of Handgunners.

St. Gabriel Possenti was a Catholic seminarian whose marksmanship and proficiency with handguns single-handedly saved the village of Isola, Italy from a band of 20 terrorists in 1860.

The Possenti Society offers a variety of materials related to St. Gabriel Possenti and a biblical understanding of self-defense.

The Savior of Isola

In 1860, a band of soldiers from the army of Garibaldi entered the mountain village of Isola, Italy. They began to burn and pillage the town, terrorizing its inhabitants.

Possenti, with his seminary rector’s permission, walked into the center of town, unarmed, to face the terrorists. One of the soldiers was dragging off a young woman he intended to rape when he saw Possenti and made a snickering remark about such a young monk being all alone.

Possenti quickly grabbed the soldier’s revolver from his belt and ordered the marauder to release the woman. The startled soldier complied, as Possenti grabbed the revolver of another soldier who came by. Hearing the commotion, the rest of the soldiers came running in Possenti’s direction, determined to overcome the rebellious monk.

At that moment a small lizard ran across the road between Possenti and the soldiers. When the lizard briefly paused, Possenti took careful aim and struck the lizard with one shot. Turning his two handguns on the approaching soldiers, Possenti commanded them to drop their weapons. Having seen his handiwork with a pistol, the soldiers complied. Possenti ordered them to put out the fires they had set, and upon finishing, marched the whole lot out of town, ordering them never to return. The grateful townspeople escorted Possenti in triumphant procession back to the seminary, thereafter referring to him as “the Savior of Isola”.

Sure enough, there are those that believe the story to be complete fiction, and others that believe it impossible that a monk would ever take up arms for any reason. I wasn’t there in Isola in 1860, so I don’t know for sure what happened. The Jeff Cooper Legacy Foundation calls him the Patron of Marksmen, and who am I to argue with the Good Colonel?

But I want to believe this story. I want to believe that not all that choose to follow Christ’s examples take their discipleship to also mean being pacifist in the face of imminent danger. Therefore, as far as this humble blog is concerned, I deem the story about St. Gabriel Possenti to be true, and I recommend he be designated by the Vatican as the Patron Saint of Handgunners.

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