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Message: <blockquote data-quote="R. Johnson" data-source="post: 1792628" data-attributes="member: 10606"><p>In addition to that, were the muslims that attacked us relentlessly off the Barbary Coast at the dawn of our nation freedom fighters? When Thomas Jefferson tried diplomacy to find a peaceful and diplomatic resolution to the islamic attacks on our brand new sovereignty and the muslim ruler told him there would be no diplomacy because it was the duty of the muslims to attack and steal the ships and goods of the infidels, was that freedom fighting? Only when Jefferson, on the advice of Washington and Adams, sent the Navy and Marine Corps to Tripoli and SCORCHED THE EARTH did these islamic pirates back down, and even then it wasn't for long. What most people don't realize is that the muslims have been giving our country grief since before we finished fighting the revolution. We haven't oppressed them, they have attempted to oppress us from the very birth of our great nation. It's unfortunate that they don't teach the Barbary Wars in school, the social and political actions set the stage for much of what is happening now.</p></blockquote><p></p>