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Thomas Jefferson's Quran
The New American ^ | 01 September 2010 | Samuel L. Blumenfeld

Posted on 01/31/2017 6:49:26 AM PST by VitacoreVision

On Friday, August 13th, President Obama welcomed members of the Muslim community to the White House to celebrate the Islamic holiday of Ramadan with an Iftar banquet — the meal served after the sunrise-to-sunset fast. Ramadan is the ninth month in the Islamic lunar calendar.

In the course of his flattering remarks about the great contributions of Muslims to America, the President mentioned the presence at the banquet of two Muslim members of Congress: Andre Carson, Democrat from Indiana, and Keith Ellison, Democrat from Minnesota, the latter of whom took his oath on Thomas Jefferson’s copy of the Quran, which has been preserved in the Library of Congress.

What the President didn’t mention is why Jefferson bought a Quran in London and why he read it. In preparing for war, he read it to find out what kind of religion the rulers of the Barbary States on the coast of North Africa believed in.

For centuries the Muslim pirates had cruised the Mediterranean Sea, capturing ships and taking prisoners, forcing Christian nations to pay tribute for freedom of passage. To avoid such confrontations, some Christian nations were willing to appease the Islamic enemy by signing treaties requiring them to pay a certain amount of tribute each year. It was a form of extortion that Muslims could impose on frightened Christians.

The pirates also raided coastline villages and took prisoners. The reason why so many Christian Greek coastal villages were built up in the hills was to provide protection against the depredations of the Muslims. Millions of Africans and thousands of Christian Europeans and Americans were enslaved by these raiders, who killed many non-Muslim older men and women and kidnapped young women and children to be sold as concubines. The boys were often mutilated to create eunuchs for use in harems and as servants.

Congressman Keith Ellison, born in Detroit to a Catholic family, was converted at age 19 to Islam while at Wayne State University. In law school, he wrote articles in support of Louis Farrakhan, with whom he is no longer affiliated. He said he chose to use Jefferson’s Quran because it showed that “a visionary like Jefferson” believed that wisdom could be gleaned from many sources. Actually, it wasn’t wisdom that Jefferson gleaned from the Quran, but a realistic understanding of what the United States was up against with the Barbary Pirates.

In 1786, Jefferson, then the American ambassador to France, and John Adams, then the American ambassador to Britain, met in London with Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja, the Tripolitan ambassador to Britain. American merchant ships had been captured by the Barbary corsairs and their crews and passengers imprisoned. They could only by freed by the payment of large ransoms. The Americans wanted to negotiate a peace treaty to spare their ships these piratical attacks. Congress was willing to appease the Barbary pirates if only they could gain peace at a reasonable price.

During the meeting, Jefferson and Adams asked the ambassador why Muslims held such hostility toward America, a nation with which they had had no previous contacts. Jefferson later reported to John Jay what the ambassador had told them: the reason for the Muslims’ enmity was that “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 (Muslim) who was slain in this warfare was sure to go to [P]aradise.”

What was Paradise like? George Sale, the translator of the English edition of the Quran that Jefferson had purchased, wrote in his commentary:

[T]he very meanest in paradise will have eighty thousand servants, seventy-two wives of the girls of paradise, besides the wives he had in this world, and a tent erected for him of pearls, jacinths, and emeralds, of a very large extent; and, according to another tradition, will be waited on by three hundred attendants while he eats, will be served in dishes of gold, whereof three hundred shall be set before him at once, containing each a different kind of food . . . [T]here will be no want of wine, which, though forbidden in this life, will yet be freely allowed to be drunk in the next, and without danger, since the wine of paradise will not inebriate, as that we drink here. . . . .[T]he inhabitants of paradise will not need to ease themselves, nor even to blow their nose, for that all superfluities will be discharged and carried off by perspiration, or a sweat as odoriferous as musk, after which their appetite shall return afresh.

So Jefferson was well aware of the superstitious lunacy and irrationality that motivated the Muslims willing to die as martyrs for Mohammed. And when he became President, he resolved to repel force by force. Within days of his inauguration, Jefferson ordered four warships to sail to the Barbary Coast and blockade and attack any Barbary State that was at war with the United States. Jefferson and his Cabinet all agreed that American power was needed to protect the young nation’s commercial interests in the Mediterranean.

Joseph Wheelan writes in Jefferson’s War that the third U.S. President “pitted a modern republic with a free-trade, entrepreneurial creed against a medieval autocracy whose credo was piracy and terror. It matched an ostensibly Christian nation against an avowed Islamic one that professed to despise Christians…. Jefferson was willing to send a largely untried squadron across the Atlantic to go to war with a people whose customs, history, and religion were alien to the early American experience.”

The new President did not have a CIA to tell him what the enemy was like. He found that out by reading the Quran he had bought for his own edification. In other words, Jefferson’s copy of the Quran helped him understand the nature and mentality of the Muslim enemy. He was wise enough to do his own research long before the United States government had any intelligence apparatus.

The Barbary War was the first foreign war fought and won by the newly independent United States. After many attempts to appease the duplicitous Barbary Muslims, the U.S. finally decided that force was the only way to put an end to the piracy. And thanks to Jefferson, a new U.S. Navy was created to fight and win this war.

The result was that the United States and the Christian nations of Europe were then able to keep the Muslims at bay for over a hundred years. The French went so far as to invade Algeria and colonize it with Europeans. But in 1960, Charles de Gaulle undid it all — and now there are over five million Muslims in France. Indeed, the loss of Christian nerve has once more opened the gates of the West to a barbaric Muslim offensive.

It’s hard to believe that all this history is unknown to Congressman Ellison as well as President Obama, who knows full well what is in the Quran and what motivates the global jihadists. He doesn’t need the CIA to tell him what we are up against in this new phase of our never-ending war with Islam, for as long as the religion of Islam exists it will never disobey its Prophet’s command to conquer unbelievers and dominate the world.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: muslims; quran; taqiyya; thomasjefferson
When Thomas Jefferson consulted the Quran, it was not out of respect for Islam, but to find out what motivated the Barbary States, enemies of the New United States, to make war on nations that had done them no harm. By Samuel L. Blumenfeld
1 posted on 01/31/2017 6:49:26 AM PST by VitacoreVision
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To: VitacoreVision

Just as Mormonism is America's Islam - Islam is the Middle East's Mormonism (FRAUD).

http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Mormonism+America%27s+Islam

 

 "Islam did not rise except through Ali's sword and Khadijah's wealth," 

 

https://books.google.com/books?id=s6sYxzbiP-gC&pg=PA276&lpg=PA276&dq=Mecca+Convents&source=bl&ots=MCUIDvA-gA&sig=XlSQr3hdngfxi9PwL9nE4V81lQ4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjg2JuMrpTPAhUQ8GMKHZPOCS4Q6AEIKTAC#v=onepage&q=Mecca%20Convents&f=false


https://books.google.com/books?id=Wl0PAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA227&lpg=PA227&dq=Khadija+convents&source=bl&ots=S4CgWdu0oz&sig=WqLh2T2uHn7D30FqixqizsIb-wg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj4pZHysZTPAhXJeSYKHVVoBiMQ6AEIQDAH#v=onepage&q=Khadija%20convents&f=false


"AND THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE"

 

2 posted on 01/31/2017 7:14:16 AM PST by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: VitacoreVision

Know your enemy.

That was the reason Jefferson had a Koran.


3 posted on 01/31/2017 7:33:42 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: HLPhat

So Ellison, ever the dumb-ass, swears his oath on a text Jefferson used to defeat his own islamic terrorist ancestors.


4 posted on 01/31/2017 7:37:27 AM PST by Chauncey Gardiner
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To: VitacoreVision
Yes, my wife got me Brian Kilmeade and Don Yeager's book Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates.

I've finished the book - it is very detailed. I'm going to read it again.

It makes clear that muslims are deranged. They only listen to force. They have to be defeated.

5 posted on 01/31/2017 7:44:50 AM PST by FroggyTheGremlim (Hillary Clinton: the official candidate of the National Sleep Foundation)
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To: Chauncey Gardiner

Exactly.


6 posted on 01/31/2017 7:48:10 AM PST by onedoug
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To: VitacoreVision

“the meal served after the sunrise-to-sunset fast”

During Ramadan muslims skip lunch. Gorge at breakfast and dinner. Food sales in Saudi Arabia are about double during the month of fasting. Muslims eat more during that month than any other.


7 posted on 01/31/2017 7:49:49 AM PST by all the best
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To: Lurkinanloomin

A desire to know the enemy was the same reason I read the Quran. Not out of any sense of reverence, for sure. It appalls me the number of people I know who consider Islam a real religion. The proof of that lie is right there in the unholy book that they don’t think they need to read. Theirs is a modern day version of getting on the train bound for the camps while wrapped in a state of profound ignorance.


9 posted on 01/31/2017 7:51:44 AM PST by mom of young patriots
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To: lonevoice

You don’t learn this in school.


10 posted on 01/31/2017 7:54:11 AM PST by Pride in the USA
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To: VitacoreVision
"T]he inhabitants of paradise will not need to ease themselves, nor even to blow their nose, for that all superfluities will be discharged and carried off by perspiration, or a sweat as odoriferous as musk, after which their appetite shall return afresh."

I think this happens to them now, when they're alive. Hate to think what the smell must be like after their dead. Have you ever found yourself confined to an elevator or other such close quarters with some of these guys? How do they not smell it???...

11 posted on 01/31/2017 7:56:59 AM PST by Hatteras
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To: mom of young patriots

Exactly. Anyone who has not read the Koran is woefully uninformed as to the true nature of Islam

The future must not belong to those who deny the true nature of Islam

John Quincy Adams on Islam

In the seventh century of the Christian era, a wandering Arab of the lineage of Hagar, the Egyptian, combining the powers of transcendent genius, with the preternatural energy of a fanatic, and the fraudulent spirit of an impostor, proclaimed himself as a messenger from Heaven, and spread desolation and delusion over an extensive portion of the earth. Adopting from the sublime conception of the Mosaic law, the doctrine of one omnipotent God; he connected indissolubly with it, the audacious falsehood, that he was himself his prophet and apostle. Adopting from the new Revelation of Jesus, the faith and hope of immortal life, and of future retribution, he humbled it to the dust, by adapting all the rewards and sanctions of his religion to the gratification of the sexual passion. He poisoned the sources of human felicity at the fountain, by degrading the condition of the female sex, and the allowance of polygamy; and he declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind. THE ESSENCE OF HIS DOCTRINE WAS VIOLENCE AND LUST: TO EXALT THE BRUTAL OVER THE SPIRITUAL PART OF HUMAN NATURE.

Between these two religions, thus contrasted in their characters, a war of twelve hundred years has already raged. That war is yet flagrant; nor can it cease but by the extinction of that imposture, which has been permitted by Providence to prolong the degeneracy of man. While the merciless and dissolute dogmas of the false prophet shall furnish motives to human action, there can never be peace upon earth, and good will towards men. The hand of Ishmael will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him. It is, indeed, amongst the mysterious dealings of God, that this delusion should have been suffered for so many ages, and during so many generations of human kind, to prevail over the doctrines of the meek and peaceful and benevolent Jesus (Blunt, 1830, 29:269, capitals in orig.).


12 posted on 01/31/2017 8:11:18 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: VitacoreVision

Stupid ellison....


13 posted on 01/31/2017 8:22:48 AM PST by onedoug
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To: Chauncey Gardiner; All
So Ellison, ever the dumb-ass, swears his oath on a text Jefferson used to defeat his own islamic terrorist ancestors.

Thomas Jefferson: “Our trade to Portugal, Spain, and the Mediterranean is annihilated unless we do something decisive. Tribute or war is the usual alternative of these pirates. If we yeild [sic] the former, it will require sums which our people will feel. Why not begin a navy then and decide on war? We cannot begin in a better cause nor against a weaker foe.

Jefferson to Horatio Gates, December 13, 1784, in ibid., 7:571. Transcription available in Founders Online.

14 posted on 01/31/2017 8:27:01 AM PST by TennesseeGirl
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To: Chauncey Gardiner

Ellison graduated in 1981 from the University of Detroit Jesuit High School and Academy,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Ellison

Indoctrinated by the Father's of Lies.

What a surprise. Not. 

I do not like the reappearance of the Jesuits.... Shall we not have regular swarms of them here, in as many disguises as only a king of the gipsies can assume, dressed as printers, publishers, writers and schoolmasters? If ever there was a body of men who merited damnation on earth and in Hell, it is this society of Loyola’s. Nevertheless, we are compelled by our system of religious toleration to offer them an asylum."
--John Adams to Thomas Jefferson; May, 1816

 

"Oops"

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Islam+Created+to+Sack+Jerusalem

That's an interesting hypothesis.  An alternative might be that both state-establishments had a common pedigree.


15 posted on 01/31/2017 9:27:11 AM PST by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: Pride in the USA

You’re right. They don’t teach it in schools because it’s American history.


16 posted on 01/31/2017 11:06:54 AM PST by lonevoice (diagonally parked in a parallel universe)
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To: eCSMaster
It makes clear that muslims are deranged. They only listen to force. They have to be defeated.

No NO No

President Bush said it was a Nation of Peace
17 posted on 01/31/2017 12:26:15 PM PST by uncbob
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