It’s true!
Kicking the Barbary Pirates ass (the muslims) put the US Navy, and the United States, on the map as a legitimate world power.
For 500 years the European powers paid ransom in order to get their loads to their destinations. Jefferson called BS on that plan.
Isn’t it amazing that even then, they wouldn’t call them out for being Muslims just following their religion. Had to call them “Barbary Pirates” as though they were Cap’n Hook or something. The truth was, they were Muslims who saw it as a religious duty to extract what they could from the Christian europeans who sailed the Mediterranean, who they were unable to conquer on land. There was an entire hierarchy of who got the ransom that ships had to pay, and it ended up with the Muzzie high mufti or whatever. It was not a lawless act, they were following their laws and the command of their leaders, and it was Islam in action.