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To: Parmy

You’re absolutely right.


6 posted on 02/03/2016 6:33:09 PM PST by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to the Freep-a-Thon? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: jazusamo
As a matter of fact, it was because of Islam that we have a Navy. In order to have the Navy, they had to make a nation out of the Articles of Confederation in order to fund a Navy. Hence, we became the United States of America.

The Barbary pirates were Islamic and preyed upon shipping. After the Revolution the American shipping no longer had the protection of the British Navy or the funding to pay ransom to free American shipping or sailors.

Many of the contemporaries wrote about this in their letter to each other.

52 posted on 02/03/2016 8:27:55 PM PST by Parmy
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