Thanks DDT, great link, it did make my 'halfwittical' brain happy because IT COMPLETELY PROVED MY POINT!Originally Posted by DDT
"For one thing, although the Barbary pirates were good at instilling terror -- using cannons and scimitars -- they were not waging a holy war against Americans. They were opportunists, historians say."
"They didn't have political objectives, they just wanted money."
It also states that the US received Muslim support in the campaign against the pirates.
"In calling on Muslims for support, Eaton, as a U.S. naval agent and the operation's leader, denounced "cruel and savage" despots who oppressed their own people -- and defiled the true teachings of Islam (Eaton had studied the Koran):
Our religion teaches us to fear and worship God and to be kind to all his creatures . . . Be assured that the God of the Americans and of the Mohometans [Muslims] is the same; the one true and omnipotent God."
The first site you linked to stated that the pirates motivation was "strictly religious". This is what I found so funny, that there were retards out there who would try to present the Barbary pirates as jihadi religious fighters akin to the modern al-Qaeda movement. And you chose it because it was written by an Arab? Yeah right, you chose it because it suited your prejudices so well. The fact that it was written by an Arab doesn't mean anything, only that you can find an Arab idiot if you want. Unfortuately, idiocy affects all peoples of the world!