Muslims declare war on America in 1801 because they refuse to continue paying the JIZYA @JGuandolo54271 https://t.co/q60RuMYyWO pic.twitter.com/LTMVMwyDnM
— Bob (@Shariakill) September 2, 2025
Why do we have a standing Navy [1784] in our Constitution? Why do we have letters of marque that authorized private citizens to fight on behalf of the United States? Because of the Muslims. Because they were seizing our ships on the seas and capturing our citizens. John Adams [and Thomas Jefferson] met with the Ambassador from Tripoli to the United Kingdom [in 1786], to Great Britain, and they asked him, "Why are you taking, seizing U.S. ships, and why are you kidnapping American citizens and holding them for ransom for tribute?"
At the time [1800], the United States government was paying a quarter, a quarter, of our national income to Muslim nations for tribute. Well, the ambassador to Great Britain from Tripoli answered Adams and Jefferson [president, 1801-1809] as to why and they recorded his response in a letter to the Continental Congress which is today obviously kept in the Library of Congress, and Jefferson and Adams [recorded] this.
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 Muslim who should be slain in battle was sure to go to paradise. --Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja, Tripoli Ambassador to Britain Official Communique to U.S. Congress, 1786.
This is what this Muslim told Thomas Jefferson and John Adams which is interesting because this is exactly what Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State Hezbollah and Hamas and all Suburban book Haram and Islamic Jihad and all the others Jihadi groups tell us the reason that they're fighting today so our Founders had direct contact with this. And what's interesting is that the first war America fought after the American Revolution was against who? The Muslims.
from Salty Texan,
I was just reading about the conversation and reporting back to the new Congress of John Adam’s and Thomas Jefferson on the topic of the Barbary pirates demands. Jefferson and John Adams went to call on Tripoli’s envoy to London, Ambassador Sidi Haji Abdrahaman. They asked him by what right he extorted money and took slaves in this way. As Jefferson later reported to Secretary of State John Jay, and to the Congress:
“The ambassador answered us that [the right] was founded on 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 Mussulman who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise.” Medieval as it is, this has a modern ring to it. Abdrahaman did not fail to add that a commission paid directly to Tripoli—and another paid to himself—would secure some temporary lenience. I believe on the evidence that it was at this moment that Jefferson decided to make war on the Muslim states of North Africa as soon as the opportunity presented itself. And, even if I am wrong, we can be sure that the dispatch of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps to the Barbary shore was the first and most important act of his presidency. It took several years of bombardment before the practice of kidnap and piracy and slavery was put down, but put down it was, Quranic justification or not. (Source: Jefferson’s Quran Slate 2007)
First Barbary War, 1801-1805
from Steve Taylor Australis on the creation of the U.S. Navy based on threats from Muslims on the high seas.
