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Re:How Jefferson and other Founding Fathers defended Muslim ... by kr7 on Saturday December 12, 2015 @02:18PM (#10723786)
He also became the first U.S. president to deal with "Islamic terrorism":

> 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.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fighting_wor...

It wouldn't be out of place for someone from ISIS to say the exact same thing today.

Re:How Jefferson and other Founding Fathers defended Muslim ... by transfire on Saturday December 12, 2015 @02:46PM (#10723887)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Barbary_War

Cool factoid: "The schooner Enterprise (commanded by Lieutenant Andrew Sterret) defeated the 14-gun Tripolitan corsair Tripoli after a one-sided battle on 1 August 1801."