U.S. at war with Islam since Thomas Jefferson’s time

U.S. at war with Islam since Thomas Jefferson’s time:

In 1786, Thomas Jefferson wrote to William Carmichael regarding Tripoli’s demand for an extortion tribute payment, 1786: “Mr. Adams and I had conferences with a Tripoline ambassador, named Abdrahaman. He asked us thirty thousand guineas for a peace with his court.”

When Jefferson asked the Muslim ambassador what the new country of America had done to offend them, he reported to John Jay, March 28, 1786: “The Ambassador answered us that it was … written in their Qur’an, that all nations who should not have acknowledged Islam’s authority were sinners, that it was their … duty to make war upon them … and to make slaves of all they could take as prisoners.”

Jefferson purchased a Qur’an to understand the enemy.

Nearly 20 percent of the U.S. federal budget was used to make extortion tribute payments to the Muslim pirates, yet they still continued their piracy.

When Jefferson became president, he finally sent in the U.S. Navy and Marines to stop Morocco’s Barbary pirates."