[cripplecreek]

A while back the history channel ran a show about some American sailors captued after a shipwreck off the west coast of north africa. They were captured by muslims and forced to walk across the sahara and back. They eventually found an american in Morocco who “bought” at least a couple of them.

I’m pretty sure that one of them wrote a book about the ordeal but I can’t recall his name right now. I’ll do some digging.

[richardtavor]

“The Barbary Wars were primarily about trade, not theology,” he writes. “Rather than being holy wars, they were an extension of America’s War of Independence.”

This guy is wrong—it has always been the same thing - a Dhimmitude Tax on Non-Muslims; that is what paying tribute is about. Western Society has changed and doesn’t understand Allahists—it has always been the same and always will be the same—’.’Submit or Die

[red irish]

It sounds interesting,I love history. Please let me know any info you find.

[Jacquerie]

The book is Riley's Narrative, an authentic narrative of the loss of the American brig Commerce wrecked on the western coast of Africa in 1815. Reprinted by Sycamore Press.

As a sidebar this book shows that Islam has not changed these past 200 years.