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The late, great, Christopher Hitchens debunks popular myth that Islamic fundamentalism is the result of American democracy
When Thomas Jefferson became president in 1801, Muslim pirates from North Africa’s Barbary Coast routinely captured American merchant ships and held the sailors as slaves, demanding ransom payments far beyond what the new country could afford. Westmoreland County Historical Society For fifteen years, America had tried to work with the four Muslim powers (Tripoli, Tunis, […]