This post is an extension of :
http://crusadersarmory.blogspot.com/2016/02/obamination-mosque-visit-freedom-of.html
Back then, Muslims were often called Mahometans. And Thomas Jefferson explained that the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom he wrote was designed to protect all faiths -- and I’m quoting Thomas Jefferson now -- “the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and the Mahometan.” (Applause.)
Jefferson and John Adams had their own copies of the Koran. Benjamin Franklin
wrote that “even if the Mufti of Constantinople were to send a
missionary to preach to us, he would find a pulpit at his
service.”
Virginia Statute
Slick kitman, Traitor! The statute is a state law, not federal. It does not modify the first amendment.copies
Adams & Jefferson bought Korans for study: to learn the enemy's motivation. The founders were not Islamophiles. See what they said about Islam.Adams
The
precept of the koran is, perpetual war against all who deny, that
Mahomet is the prophet of God. The vanquished may purchase their lives,
by the payment of tribute; the victorious may be appeased by a false
and delusive promise of peace; and the faithful follower of the
prophet, may submit to the imperious necessities of defeat: but the
command to propagate the Moslem creed by the sword is always
obligatory, when it can be made effective.
American Annual Register - Years 1827-1829 (pg. 274)
American Annual Register - Years 1827-1829 (pg. 274)
In
the seventh century of the Christian era, a wondering Arab of the
lineage of Hagar, the Egyptian, combining the powers of transcendent
genius, the preternatural energy of a fanatic, and the fraudulent
spirit of an imposter, proclaimed himself as a messenger from Heaven,
and spread desolation and delusion over an extensive portion of the
earth.
Adopting from the sublime conception of Mosaic Law, the doctrine of one omnipotent God; he connected indisputably with, the audacious falsehood, that he was himself his prophet and apostle. Adopting from the new Revelation of Jesus, the faith and hope of immortal life, and a future retribution, he humbled it to the dust, by adapting all the rewards and sanctions of his religion to the gratification of sexual passion.
He poisoned the source of human felicity at the fountain, by degrading the condition of the female sex, and the allowance of polygamy; and he declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind.
THE ESSENCE OF HIS DOCTRINE WAS VIOLENCE AND LUST; TO EXALT THE BRUTAL OVER THE SPIRITUAL PART OF HUMAN NATURE. (emphasis not added)
American Annual Register - Years 1827-1829 (pg. 269)
Adopting from the sublime conception of Mosaic Law, the doctrine of one omnipotent God; he connected indisputably with, the audacious falsehood, that he was himself his prophet and apostle. Adopting from the new Revelation of Jesus, the faith and hope of immortal life, and a future retribution, he humbled it to the dust, by adapting all the rewards and sanctions of his religion to the gratification of sexual passion.
He poisoned the source of human felicity at the fountain, by degrading the condition of the female sex, and the allowance of polygamy; and he declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind.
THE ESSENCE OF HIS DOCTRINE WAS VIOLENCE AND LUST; TO EXALT THE BRUTAL OVER THE SPIRITUAL PART OF HUMAN NATURE. (emphasis not added)
American Annual Register - Years 1827-1829 (pg. 269)
Franklin
In
a March 23, 1790, letter to the editor of the Federal Gazette, Ben Franklin wrote:
Nor can the Plundering of Infidels be in that sacred Book [the Quran] forbidden, since it is well known from it, that God has given the World, and all that it contains, to his faithful Mussulmen, who are to enjoy it of Right as fast as they conquer it.
Nor can the Plundering of Infidels be in that sacred Book [the Quran] forbidden, since it is well known from it, that God has given the World, and all that it contains, to his faithful Mussulmen, who are to enjoy it of Right as fast as they conquer it.
Jefferson
Adams and Jefferson met Tripoli's Ambassador in London and asked by what right the pirates attacked our ships. His report to the Secretary Of State has a clue for you.The
ambassador answered us that [the right] was founded on the Laws of the
Prophet (Mohammed), that it was written in their Koran, that all
nations who should not have answered 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 Mussulman (or Muslim) who should be slain in battle was sure
to go to heaven. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Barbary_War
