Thomas Jefferson Tripoli
Posted: 2014-08-14 12:18am
An argument I've seen recently by groups such as renew america. Basically they claim that Islam has been the enemy since the founding of america due to some meeting with the ambassador of tripoli in which the ambassador said
Jefferson reported the ambassador's response to Congress: "[That right] was founded upon 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 Musselman who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise."
How much accuracy is in this claim?
Jefferson reported the ambassador's response to Congress: "[That right] was founded upon 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 Musselman who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise."
How much accuracy is in this claim?
