FW: Why the Marine Hymn contains the verse "to the shores of Tripoli"

[ENRIQUE M LABAO]

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> Subject: FW: Why the Marine Hymn contains the verse "to
> the shores of Tripoli"
> Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 20:48:20 -0400
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>   Regards,  Jeffrey
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> jpe...@ec.rr.com From: James Monaco
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> Why the Marine Hymn contains the verse "to the shores
> of Tripoli"  On Saturday, March 7, 2015
> 4:15 PM, Keith <mrna...@optonline.net>
> wrote: Why
> the Marine Hymn contains the verse "to the shores of
> Tripoli"Just thinking about
> the electorate in this country.  The ones ignorant of
> our history that brought this Muslim administration to the
> office.
> Most of us think history is repeating
> itself!Now a
> bit of history as to why the Marine hymn contains the verse
> "to the shores of Tripoli"! Muslim pirates of the
> past:  Most Americans are unaware of the fact that over
> two hundred years ago, the United States had declared war on
> Islam, with Thomas Jefferson Leading the charge! Muslims
> just like the ones today !
> At the height of the eighteenth century, Muslim pirates were
> the terror of the Mediterranean and a large area of the
> North Atlantic.  They attacked every ship in sight, and
> held the crews for exorbitant ransoms.  Those taken
> hostage were subjected to barbaric treatment and wrote heart
> breaking letters home, begging their government and family
> members to pay whatever their Mohammedan captors
> demanded.
> These extortionists of the high seas represented the Islamic
> nations of Tripoli, Tunis, Morocco, and Algiers collectively
> referred to as the Barbary Coast - and presented a dangerous
> and unprovoked threat to the new American
> Republic.
> Before the Revolutionary War, U.S. Merchant ships had been
> under the protection of Great Britain.  When the U.S
> declared its independence and entered into war, the ships of
> the United States were protected by France.  However,
> once the war was won, America had to protect its own
> fleets.  Thus, the birth of our great U.S.
> Navy.
> Beginning in 1784, seventeen years before he would become
> president, Thomas Jefferson became America's Minister to
> France.  That same year, the U.S. Congress sought to
> appease its Muslim adversaries by following in the footsteps
> of European nations who paid bribes to the Barbary States,
> rather than engaging them in war.
> In July of 1785, Algerian pirates captured American ships,
> and the Dye of Algiers demanded an unheard-of ransom of
> $60,000.  It was a plain and simple case of extortion,
> and Thomas Jefferson was vehemently opposed to any further
> payments.  Instead, he proposed to Congress the
> formation of a coalition of allied nations who together
> could force the Islamic states into peace. 
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> A disinterested Congress decided to pay the ransom.  In
> 1786, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams met with Tripoli's
> ambassador to Great Britain to ask by what right his nation
> attacked American ships and enslaved American citizens, and
> why Muslims held so much hostility towards America, a nation
> with which they had no previous contacts The two future
> presidents reported that Ambassador Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman
> Adja had answered that 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
> Musselman (Muslim) who should be
> slain in Battle was sure to go to
> Paradise."
> Despite of this stunning admission of premeditated violence
> on non-Muslim nations, as well as the objections of many
> notable American leaders, including George Washington, who
> warned that caving in was both wrong and would only further
> embolden the enemy, for the following fifteen years, the
> American government paid the Muslims millions of dollars for
> the safe passage of American ships or the return of American
> hostages. The payments in ransom and tribute amounted to
> over twenty percent of the United States government annual
> revenues in 1800.
> Jefferson was disgusted,unlike our current Muslim
> president,after his being sworn in as President of the
> United States in 1801, the Pasha of Tripoli sent him a note
> demanding the immediate payment of $225,000 plus $25,000 a
> year for every year forthcoming. 
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> That angered him.
> Jefferson let the Pasha know, in no uncertain terms, what he
> could do with his demand.  The Pasha responded by
> cutting down the flagpole at the American consulate and
> declared war on the United States.  Tunis, Morocco, and
> Algiers immediately followed suit.  Jefferson, until
> now, had been against America raising a naval force for
> anything beyond coastal defense, but having watched his
> nation be cowed by Islamic thuggery all to long, decided
> that is was finally time to meet force with force.
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> He dispatched a squadron of frigates to the Mediterranean
> and taught the Muslim nations of the Barbary Coast a lesson
> he hoped they would never forget.  Congress authorized
> Jefferson to empower U.S. Ships to seize all vessels and
> goods of the Pasha of Tripoli and to "cause to be done
> all other acts of precaution or hostility as the state of
> war would justify".When Algiers and Tunis,
> who were both accustomed to American cowardice and
> acquiescence, saw the newly independent United States had
> both the will and the might to strike back, they quickly
> abandoned their allegiance to Tripoli. 
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> The war with Tripoli lasted for four more years, and raged
> up again in 1815.  The bravery of the U.S. Marine Corps
> in these wars led to the line "to the shores of
> Tripoli" in the Marine Hymn, and they would forever be
> known as 'leathernecks' for the leather collars of
> their uniforms, designed to prevent their heads from being
> cut off by the Muslim scimitars when boarding enemy
> ships.
> Islam, and what its Barbary followers justified doing in the
> name of their prophet and their god, disturbed Jefferson
> quite deeply.
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> America had a tradition of religious tolerance, the fact
> that Jefferson, himself, had co-authored the Virginia
> Statute for Religious Freedom, but fundamentalist Islam was
> like no other religion the world had ever seen. 
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> A religion based on supremacy, whose holy book not only
> condoned but mandated violence against unbelievers was
> unacceptable to him.  His greatest fear was that
> someday this brand of Islam would return and pose an even
> greater threat to the  United States.  This should
> bother every American. 
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> That Muslims have brought about women-only classes and
> swimming times at taxpayer-funded universities and public
> pools; that Christians, Jews, and Hindus have been banned
> from serving on juries where Muslim defendants are being
> judged, Piggy banks and Porky Pig tissue dispensers have
> been banned from workplaces because they offend Islamist
> sensibilities.
> Ice cream has been discontinued at certain Burger King
> locations because the picture on the wrapper looks similar
> to the Arabic script for Allah, public schools are pulling
> pork from their menus, on and on in the
> newspapers...
> It's death by a thousand cuts, or inch-by-inch as some
> refer to it, and most Americans have no idea that this
> battle is being waged every day across America. 
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> By not fighting back, by allowing groups to obfuscate what
> is really happening, and not insisting that the
> Islamist's adapt to our own culture, the United States
> is cutting its own throat with a politically correct knife,
> and helping to further the Islamist's agenda.
>
> Sadly, it appears that today's America would rather be
> politically correct than victorious.
> Below is the only Muslim reference I could find,I guess this
> is what Obama has been referencing to, as the Muslim being
> an important part of our history !
> Any doubts, just search 'Thomas Jefferson vs the Muslim
> World'
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> "We Have Met The
> Enemy. . . and it is US!" -
> Pogo by Walt Kelly
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> Give me
> the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue
> freelyAccording
> to conscience, above all
> liberties."Your American sentries on
> duty
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