The Heavenly King of the Chinese

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From David Hocking. Davidhocking.org

A DIFFERENT KIND OF PRESIDENT THEN... 

When Jefferson saw there was no negotiating with Muslims, he formed what is now the Marines (sea going soldiers). These Marines were attached to U. S. Merchant vessels.

 

When the Muslims attacked U.S. merchant vessels they were repulsed by armed soldiers, but there is more. The Marines followed the Muslims back to their villages and killed every man, woman, and child in the village. It didn't take long for the Muslims to leave U.S. Merchant vessels alone. English and French merchant vessels started running up our flag when entering the Mediterranean to secure safe travel.

 

Why the Marine Hymn Contains the Verse "To the Shores of Tripoli"

 

This is very interesting and a must read piece of our history. It points out where we may be heading.

 

Most Americans are unaware of the fact that over two hundred years ago the United States had declared war on Islam and Thomas Jefferson led the charge!

 

At the height of the 18th century, Muslim pirates (the "Barbary Pirates") were the terror of the Mediterranean and a large area of the North Atlantic.

 

They attacked every ship in sight, and held the crews for exorbitant ransoms. Those taken hostage were subjected to barbaric treatment and wrote heart-breaking letters home, begging their government and family members to pay whatever their Mohammedan captors demanded.

 

These extortionists of high seas represented the North African Islamic nations of Tripoli, Tunis, Morocco, and Algiers - collectively referred to as the Barbary Coast - and presented a dangerous and unprovoked threat to the new American Republic.

 

Before the Revolutionary War, U.S. merchant ships had been under the protection of Great Britain. When the U.S. declared its independence and entered into war, the ships of the United States were protected by France. However, once the war was won, America had to protect its own fleets.

 

Thus, the birth of the U.S. Navy.  Beginning in 1784, 17 years before he would become President, Thomas Jefferson became America's Minister to France. That same year, U.S. Congress sought to appease its Muslim adversaries by following in the footsteps of European nations who paid bribes to the Barbary States rather than engaging them in war.

 

 In July of 1785, Algerian pirates captured American ships, and the Dye of Algiers demanded an unheard-of ransom of $60,000. It was a plain and simple case of extortion, and Thomas Jefferson was vehemently opposed to any further payments. Instead, he proposed to Congress the formation of a coalition of allied nations who together could force the Islamic states into peace. A disinterested Congress decided to pay the ransom.

 

In 1786, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams met with Tripoli's ambassador to Great Britain to ask by what right his nation attacked American ships and enslaved American citizens, and why Muslims held so much hostility towards America, a nation with which they had no previous contacts.

 

The two future Presidents reported that Ambassador Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja had answered that Islam "was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Qur'an that all nations who would not acknowledge 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 "Mussel man" (Muslim) who should be slain in Battle was sure to go to Paradise."

 

Despite this stunning admission of premeditated violence on non-Muslim nations, as well as the objections of many notable American leaders, including George Washington, who warned that caving in was both wrong and would only further embolden the enemy, for the following fifteen years the American government paid the Muslims millions of dollars for the safe passage of American ships or the return of American hostages. The payments in ransom and tribute amounted to over 20 percent of the United States government annual revenues in 1800.

 

Jefferson was disgusted. Shortly after his being sworn in as the third President of the United States in 1801, the  Pasha of Tripoli sent him a note demanding the immediate payment of $225,000  plus $25,000 a year for every year forthcoming. That changed everything.

 

Jefferson let the Pasha know, in no uncertain terms, what he could do with his demand. The Pasha responded by cutting down the flagpole at the American consulate and declared war on the United States. Tunis, Morocco, and Algiers immediately followed suit.  Jefferson, until now, had been against America raising a naval force for anything beyond coastal defense, but, having watched his nation be cowed by Islamic thuggery for long enough, decided that it was finally time to meet force with force.

 

He dispatched a squadron of frigates to the Mediterranean and taught the Muslim nations of the Barbary Coast a lesson he hoped they would never forget. Congress authorized Jefferson to empower U.S. ships to seize all vessels and goods of the Pasha of Tripoli and to "cause to be done all other acts of precaution or hostility as the state of war would justify".

 

When Algiers and Tunis, who were both accustomed to American cowardice and acquiescence, saw the newly independent United States had both the will and the right to strike back, they quickly abandoned their allegiance to Tripoli. The war with Tripoli lasted for four more years, and raged up again in 1815. The bravery of the U.S. Marine Corps  in these wars led to the line "to the shores of Tripoli" in the Marine Hymn,  and they would forever be known as "leathernecks" for the leather collars of  their uniforms, designed to prevent their heads from being cut off by the  Muslim scimitars when boarding enemy ships.

 

Islam, and what its Barbary followers justified doing in the name of their prophet and their god, disturbed Jefferson quite deeply.

 

America had a tradition of religious tolerance. In fact Jefferson, himself, had co-authored the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, but fundamentalist Islam was like no other religion the world had ever seen. A religion based on supremacy, whose holy book not only condoned but mandated violence against unbelievers, was unacceptable to him. His greatest fear was that someday this brand of Islam would return and pose an even greater threat to the United States.

 

This should concern every American.  That Muslims have brought about women-only classes and swimming times at taxpayer-funded universities and public pools; that Christians, Jews, and  Hindus have been banned from serving on juries where Muslim defendants are  being judged; Piggy banks and Porky Pig tissue dispensers have been banned from workplaces because they offend Islamist sensibilities; ice cream has been discontinued at certain Burger King locations because the picture on the wrapper looks similar to the Arabic script for Allah; public schools are  pulling pork from their menus; on and on and on and  on...

 

It's death by a thousand cuts, or inch-by-inch as some refer to it, and most Americans have no idea that this battle is being waged every day across America. By not fighting back, by allowing groups to obfuscate what is really happening, and not insisting that the Islamists adapt to our own culture, the United States is cutting its own throat with a politically correct knife, and helping to further the Islamists agenda.

 

Sadly, it appears that today America's leaders would rather be politically correct than victorious!

by Ken Ham on April 24, 2016 Answersingenesis.org

Humanism—the Religion of Public Schools!

by Ken Ham on April 24, 2016

Many of the modern battles against Christianity are being waged in government-run schools. All across America, secularists throw around the phrase “separation of church and state” (a phrase which, by the way, is not found in the US Constitution) and insist that any mention in schools of Christianity, the Bible, or even Intelligent Design is somehow a violation. And all the while their religions of humanism and atheism (which are belief systems about our world) are being openly and often exclusively taught in the public school system.

I’ve been pointing out for years that secular humanism is the reigning religion in the public schools of Western nations, and that this false teaching is deceiving many young people. In a recent interview, a journalist and author also laments the replacement of Christianity with humanism. He says that, despite the idea that public schools can’t teach religion to students, “schools do try to force a religion on children, but it’s not Christianity; rather, it is humanism . . . people think humanism’s not a religion. Well, it is a religion. It has been found to be a religion by the courts because it is a religion. It has articles of faith. It is based on faith.”
Millions of children here in America are indoctrinated each year with the religion of humanism. In public schools, they are taught that there is no God, that they are the result of random processes, and that there is no absolute standard for morality. No wonder so many young people have secular worldviews!
As parents, we have a responsibility to “train up a child in the way he should go” (Proverbs 22:6), and fathers are called to “bring [their children] up in the training and admonition of the Lord” (Ephesians 6:4). This includes helping them to develop a biblical worldview and to be prepared to answer the skeptical questions our secular culture asks. Because of the onslaught of secular teaching, it’s more important than ever that young people be solidly grounded in the Word of God and in biblical teaching.
I encourage you to check out my Foundations DVD series. This video set provides an introduction into a biblical worldview which starts our thinking with God’s Word in all areas. This would be an excellent series to view with your young people. Another superb resource, for younger children, is our Answers Book for Kids series. These books answer over 100 of the most common questions kids have about the Bible, science, dinosaurs, Noah’s Ark, salvation, and more. This series will help ground your kids in a biblical worldview from a young age. You can view these resources, and many more, in our online store.
Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,
Ken
This item was written with the assistance of AiG’s research team.