Interesting. Thank you so much for sharing that. I am sure that a lot of people will be looking at this history more closely right about now.
Most of the adults in this country went to public schools. They think the Crusades were orchestrated by the pope to open trade routes to the east and to convert the heathens to Christianity. Along the way the crusaders killed tens of thousands of innocents.
Most of them know nothing of the abductions (they think Abduction from the Seraglio is pure fantasy), nothing of the piracy, nothing of “The Shores of Tripoli” and nothing of President Jefferson’s understanding of the threat of Islam.