Standing up to Oppression

America’s Earliest Terrorists

"Take, for example, the 1786 meeting in London of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja, the Tripolitan ambassador to Britain. As American ambassadors to France and Britain respectively, Jefferson and Adams met with Ambassador Adja to negotiate a peace treaty and protect the United States from the threat of Barbary piracy. "

"These future United States presidents questioned the ambassador as to why his government was so hostile to the new American republic even though America had done nothing to provoke any such animosity. Ambassador Adja answered them, as they reported to the Continental Congress, “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 who should be slain in Battle was sure to go to Paradise.”"

"Sound familiar?"

Further, in their minds its immoral and wrong for non-muslims to resist. Nothing has changed.


Beware of the Fogh

Brave Danes refuse to bow to Islamic demands for suppressing free speech.

"A demonstration in Copenhagen by “as many as 5,000 Muslims” having failed to provoke a change of heart, in December, Danish Muslims announced they were sending “delegations” to a number of Islamic countries to meet with “senior officials and prominent scholars” although with what end in view they didn’t say. A spokesman named Abu Laban stated, “We have fled our countries because wewere denied freedom of expression so no one should play this tune with us. This is not a case of freedom of expression.” "

Let me see if I understand correctly. Abu Laban left his third world craphole country because of oppression. Now he wants to make Denmark into the type of nation he fled in the first place. What he is saying here is that no one else should be allowed freedom of expression if he doesn't like it.

Does he comprehend the concept?

I think he DOES understand. He just wants to be the one to be denying others their freedoms. This isn't about freedom or taking offense, its about power.