“the lie that America and its allies are at war with Islam.”
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Islam has been at war with US since the country was founded.
It’s part of the reason we have a Marine Corps.
The line “To the shores of Tripoli” refers to the First Barbary War, and specifically the Battle of Derne in 1805. After Lieutenant Presley O’Bannon and his Marines hoisted the American flag over the Old World for the first time, the phrase was added to the flag of the United States Marine Corps.
Tripolitan War, (1801–05), conflict between the United States and Tripoli (now in Libya), incited by American refusal to continue payment of tribute to the piratical rulers of the North African Barbary States of Algiers, Tunis, Morocco, and Tripoli; this practice had been customary among European nations. So, we were fighting Muslim pirates in the late 18th century. An inconvenient truth.