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Originally Posted by MChat
(the Barbary states) he found that they would say one thing and then do another. So in order to understand their beliefs, he had the Qu'ran translated. Once he understood what he was dealing with, he sent in the Marines to take care of the problem ("to the shores of Tripoli"). By reading the Qu'ran Jefferson quickly figured out what we are so willingly ignorant of today: You cannot deal or negotiate with someone who believes it is their divine right to lie to you, to cheat you, to steal from you and to ultimately murder you. The only outcome of such fanaticism is complete and utter defeat/destruction: yours or theirs, the only question is who is going to make the decision: you or them?
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I respectfully ask you to find in the Quran where it says that muslims have a divine right to lie, cheat, steal and/or murder anyone or any creation of God. As you stated above brother the pirates did not practice what they preached (Quran) because if they did the Marines would not have been deployed to protect international trade routes from them. The decision to deploy Marines was actually more islamic and divine than those pirates and their actions lol. Which is why they won that 'battle'. Semper Fidelis
What you are seeing in the middle east are cultures using religion as a reason to legitimize their psychotic behavior. If you dig into all this you'll see they'd rather be called a Saudi, Libian, Iranian, Israeli instead of a Muslim, Christian or a Jew. Why aren't there any priests, rabbis or imams beheading one another in the name of their religion?
I just hope Americans don't fall prey to fear mongering psychopath politicians spewing filth about something they know nothing about for a political seat. The fact that someone would say they would give up a few of their liberties for security is scarier than any bearded terrorist with a knife lol