[montag813]

There is indeed no compromise with the "Musselmen", as Jefferson called them. We should have learned that lesson clearly in March 1785, when Jefferson and John Adams went to wait upon Tripoli’s ambassador to London. When they inquired by what right the Barbary states preyed upon American shipping, enslaving both crews and passengers, America’s two foremost envoys were informed that...

“it was written in the Koran, that all Nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon whoever they could find and to make Slaves of all they could take as prisoners, and that every Mussulman who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise.”

NOTHING WHATSOEVER has changed in the 227 years since. As a young Winston Churchill observed: "No stronger retrograde force exists in the world." I weep for the late Ambassador, but his idealism was at odds with centuries of experience bought with great blood and treasure. Islam cannot be bargained with. It must be opposed, and defeated.

[Lee'sGhost]

“Musselmen”

I wonder how he pronounced that, “Musselmen” like the shellfish, or “Mooselemen” like the critter with antlers.