[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Perhaps they could be called refugees. For the sake of argument, let's label them as Liberals are so fond of doing.

Those refugees did not carry islam with them and were not intent on destroying any other peoples or religions that were different from theirs.

Comparison invalid.

[smokingfrog]

. In 1607, the English attempted another colony, this time in the Chesapeake Bay, which was better suited to deepwater navigation and where they hoped the Indians might be friendlier. By then, James I had ascended to the throne and ended the long war with Spain. Riches would no longer come from stealing Spanish gold but from cultivating natural resources, a plan long advocated by Richard Hakluyt (the younger) and Thomas Hariot. Investors also hoped to take advantage of widespread underemployment in England caused, in part, by a population boom. Thousands of laborers would sail to Virginia and send back timber, glass, tar, sassafras, and perhaps even gold and silver, while spreading the Protestant faith to the Indians.