(01-03-2019 11:14 PM)shere khan Wrote:  

(01-03-2019 01:46 PM)JDTulane Wrote:  link

Pretty cool. Such a diverse incoming congressional class.
Also way cool to be around a book that old.

Solid troll. Lol.

Halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli.

In a letter to John Jay, Thomas Jefferson wrote-

“The Ambassador (Ambassador Abdrahaman) answered us that it was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and that every Musselman [Muslim] who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise.”

Source- Wheelan, Joseph, Jefferson’s War- America’s First War on Terror 1801-1805, Carroll & Graf, 2004, pp. 40-41.

Bwahahaha.

But yeah, diversity and stuff

And now from your link, the ironic gut punch:

It’s important to me because a lot of Americans have this kind of feeling that Islam is somehow foreign to American history,” Tlaib told The Detroit Free Press. “Muslims were there at the beginning. … Some of our founding fathers knew more about Islam than some members of Congress now.”
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Yes they did, yes they did

History is fun

Stephen Decatur



Tradition has it that Britain’s renowned admiral Horatio Nelson described the recapture and burning of the Philadelphia as “the most bold and daring act of its age.” This audacious and successful operation led to Decatur’s promotion to Captain at age 25, the youngest person to attain that rank in the history of the U.S. Navy.

Lol. I love this stuff. Dumb democrats