This is a prime example of the left abetting the oncoming invasion/infection of Islam.
The left has not taught history to our children for decades. And certainly no pride in that history.
So, not knowing history the Americans of today accept the fact that Jefferson must have had a Koran because he revered it. They don't know about the Barbary Wars and the desolute history of Islamic pirates. They don't know that Jefferson collected thousands of books and twice donated them to the government and founded the Library of Congress.
They also don't know about the march of militant Islam throughout the centuries.
All they know is that everyone is "good" - all cultures are equally wonderful.
They only thing they know about multiculturalism is that we get a variety of restaurants. They don't understand that America is the "noble experiment" and they have to fight for the republic "if they can keep it."
This is a great and makes a mockery of Ellison's choice of Thomas Jefferson's copy of the Quran -- curses and pig fat be to Mohammed. It might even be that some of these Barbary pirates American fought brought Ellison's ancestors to America. Such irony! Lost, of course, on a lefty moonbat.
Thanks for posting this. Just sent out in email.
Wow! Great article.
In 1794, Congress authorized the building of a new U.S. Navy (the Navy of the Revolutionary War had been dissolved at the war's end). If you were to ask Americans "Troubles with what country led Congress to form a new Navy?", I doubt that one in a hundred could give the correct answer, which is: Algeria.
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let’s bring this back