In my new book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS I recount America’s first war against Islamic jihadists: its conflict in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries against the Barbary pirates. Few historians have recognized this as a jihad, but that is what it was: in June 1796, Pasha Hamouda, the bey of Tunis, offered to conclude a peace treaty with the United States, and stipulated that the Americans had six months to consider the offer, during which Tunisian pirates would not attack American ships. If they rejected the offer, the raids would resume, leaving the Americans no room to maneuver.
Hamouda signed his treaty officer as “commander…of the frontier post of the Holy War,” suggesting at once that the piracy was in service of a larger goal— jihad, conquest, and Islamization of the non-Muslim world—and that if the Americans rejected the offer, they would face war not just with Tunis but with the entire global forces of jihad. As we do today.
Click here to preorder The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS.
Benedict says
The two pillars of Islam: stealing and lying.
BC says
You are incorrect. Moham. bargained with ‘god/allah’ on the advice of allah’s gate keepers. IE the prophets including JHC. Moham. was ‘allah’s’ servant and servants do not demand things’
Read Robert’s description of the mythical event.
The point of this myth was to establish Moham’s superiority over the foregoing prophets. He was the only one who travelled to ‘god’s/allah’s’ house and discussed with him!
Famous Spearthrower says
Personally this is why I believe Mohammed is the anti-Christ maintaining he could do everything that Christ did through his daily communion not with the God of Abraham but with the Great Deceiver who continues to lie to this day.
Indiana Tom says
Believe? From the actions and beliefs of Mighty Moe and his entourage, I would probably put this into the I know category..
I am not much of a religious person.
But if you compare the stated ideologies and practices of Mighty Moe and his mob to Jesus and his disciples , it is pretty easy to determine what is good and what is evil.
Sons of Liberty says
I agree with Famous Spearthrower , Muhammad got his marching orders from Satan and the CURSE on the world continues to this day ! Satan is darkness , and as King Thranwaithe of the Wood Elves said in the movie The Hobbit , ” Such is the nature of EVIL , out there in the vast ignorance of the world it festers and grows like the oncoming wall of night ” ! Well that is one of the best explanations of what is happening in the world today …in a movie. The darkness is spreading unfortunately and we must therefore turn to …The LIGHT of the World , Jesus Christ !
J D S says
Of course the piracy on the Barbary Coast was jihad…..From the beginning of Islam jihad was there….FEAR is what has held Islam together and FEAR is what jihad is supposed to portray to hold it’s adherents and also those they want to enslave in this Satan Driven religion.
When, and ONLY when, the world understands that this is what Islam is all about, and takes action, then Isam will dissipate.
Richard Kruse says
The flying horse trip to heaven… That’s a good one. The horse had the face of a woman and a tail of peacock feathers. Lovely. If it was a horse with the face of a woman, Muhammad would have had sex with it. Muhammad was that kind of a guy.
Sons of Liberty says
LMAO ! Great post Richard Kruse !
Keys says
“I also know that Islam has always been a part of America’s story. … And since our founding, American Muslims have enriched the United States.“
———— Barak Obama, Cairo Speech – 2009
10 Pinocchios and 10 Mohammads ??????????
KJW says
Muslims enriched America by forcing us to start the US Navy to deal with the Muhammadan Barbary pirates. It’s an oblique way of “enrichment.”
He also said Muslims designed skyscrapers. I suppose destroying them was a way of “designing.”
The OIC has this whole thing with history negation and lies repeated by OIC at the UN and to which universities and authors keep repeating pretty much verbatim. It’s really pathetic. The Islamic Middle East is pathological. Why do they play this denial game?
Peter WF says
If you wanted migrants why would you let in the dumbest?
Search “images world map average IQ”.
Also why would you let in the most corrupt. Search “images world map corruption”.
Why would you let in the most genetically inferior. Search “images world map marry first cousins”.
And while your at it search “images world map muslims”. See a pattern? I didn’t make this stuff up!!!!
This search might also make you think – Health effects of marry first cousins.
Hari Singh says
In UK a large part of the Muslim immigrant population is married to the first or second cousin, which is illegal by the way.
This results in widespread genetic defects which the National Health foots the bill. Conditions rarely seen in UK health centres are now common.
The population of Saudi Arabia builds Children’s hospitals to deal with their widespread birth defect problems.
Indiana Tom says
In UK a large part of the Muslim immigrant population is married to the first or second cousin, which is illegal by the way.
Hey, in parts of the USA, it is all relative.
gravenimage says
Actually, no European country–including the UK–specifically bans first-cousin marriage. It is certainly frowned on, though.
About half the states in the US ban it, though.
So much for the idea that Americans are all inbred hillbillies, where others in the West are not. By the way, cousin marriage is legal in Canada and Australia, as well.
Vann Boseman says
IQ is a difficult aspect of the migrant issue many do not wish to deal with. I think that it could be that the brightest migrants are those who manage to get out of their countries. It would be tragic if in the most pathetically mentally disabled countries that those with the best mental abilities leave. The appeasers of illegal immigration do not consider this aspect at all and how they may be encouraging ignorance in the leadership of the countries the migrants spring from which often have already have the lowest average IQs on the planet. Where is the touted liberal’s compassion here? If it is true that the above average people in countries with tragically low average IQs leave, then it could still be true that the average IQ of migrants would be below the standards for the US military. This is significant because over a lot of years, the US military has determined that people with IQs below a certain point, even with the ulterior goal of enlisting people to aid in them raising their station in life, present a more of a drain on resources than a benefit. Another aspect of the problem is that there is an extremely strong correlation between IQ and advocacy of freedom of speech. Now, consider immigrants, legal and illegal, that tend to have low IQs who would therefore not tend to support core values of western civilization also being Muslim. There are so many layers of tragedy in the west’s liberals success in bringing in Muslims bent on hijrah jihad. It is so wrong on so many levels that it is hard to fully address in a brief manner.
Michael Copeland says
It was because of endless muslim piracy of shipping and raiding of trade caravans that the backers of Christopher Columbus funded the expedition to find an alternative route to the East.
So yes, Islam was involved with the very earliest European contact with America.
gravenimage says
True, Michael.
gravenimage says
Pirates of the jihad
……………….
Yes, indeed.
And it is not over–in recent years, the US and other nations have had to shut down piracy in the Horn of Africa, as well.
PRCS says
Brian Kilmeade’s book “Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War That Changed American History” makes reference to this:
“In March 1786, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams went to London to negotiate with Tripoli’s envoy, ambassador Sidi Haji Abdrahaman (or Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja). When they enquired “concerning the ground of the pretensions to make war upon nations who had done them no injury”, the ambassador replied:
It was written in their Koran, that all nations which had not acknowledged the Prophet were sinners, whom it was the right and duty of the faithful to plunder and enslave; and that every mussulman who was slain in this warfare was sure to go to paradise. He said, also, that the man who was the first to board a vessel had one slave over and above his share, and that when they sprang to the deck of an enemy’s ship, every sailor held a dagger in each hand and a third in his mouth; which usually struck such terror into the foe that they cried out for quarter at once..
And yet, while plugging his book on several Fox News programs, he referred to that as “radical Islam”.
gravenimage says
Yes–we should *all* know about this brave history.
PRCS says
And we should all know that the Tripoli envoy’s statement was not a reflection of “radical Islam”>
gravenimage says
Also true, PRCS.
KJW says
Non-Muslims should be offended reading the Qur’an. The next time Muslim goes on about secularism and atheists I’m yelling hate speech, bigotry and phobia!
The Meccans and Muhamnad’s own clan he slaughtered would be called Islamophobics, as well as the two Jewish exiled tribes and the other Banu Quraiza which he beheaded ~600 men.
There are billions of people who have been and are offended by Muslims and Islam.
That reminds me, while the EU, et al is coddling Arab’s and cares about Palestinian rights, do they ever complain about cruel apostasy and blasphemy laws? Shouldn’t they be supporting freedom of conscience? (Rhetorical question.)
Hari Singh says
People should put the verses in the Koran that call to murder infidels, kill apostates and Gays and kidnap women and sexually enslave them on their cell phone for easy access when the religion of peace folks talk nonsense.
As well as the verses that call for the murder of Hindus, Buddhists and Sikhs a size-able part of the world’s population.
When defenders of Islam say that the Old Testament says the same remind them that most of the Old Testament penalties are abrogated by legal procedures of the Oral Law the Mishna and Talmud, and for Christians by the New Testament.
Famous Spearthrower says
I believe I read somewhere in a book on constitutional law that “muhamodians ” were previously at one time in U.S. history either banned or dissuaded from immigrating here. Maybe a good historian could point this out to the American people and media to reveal the historic precedent and reason for this in relation to President Trump’s reason for such a similar ban of immigrants from the 7 out of 50 predominantly muslim nations today.
TWG says
Indeed, there was a law banning the import of jihadis to the U.S.
The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 also known as the McCarran–Walter Act, codified under Title 8 of the United States Code (8 U.S.C. ch. 12)
Sadly, much of that law has been bastardized to the point of irrelevance by the islammunist party.
Indiana Tom says
Out battle with islam is enshrined in the Marine Corps anthem.
….to the shores of Tripoli…..
gravenimage says
True, Indiana Tom. I wish more Americans knew this.
PRCS says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=Cb2Y_GivFAE
PRCS says
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/world-hijab-day-regina-muslim-youth-network-islamic-circle-of-north-america-1.4541530
Andy says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Crjcoin5Dfg
PRCS says
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/world-hijab-day-regina-muslim-youth-network-islamic-circle-of-north-america-1.4541530
PRCS says
Try this
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/world-hijab-day-regina-muslim-youth-network-islamic-circle-of-north-america-1.4541530