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1. January 5, 1779 Stephen Decatur, naval hero, born.
He participated in two Barbary Wars.
He was a hero in both actions. There are eighteen towns, cities, and counties named for
him across America.
After returning and stationed in Washington, D.C. he responded to his hosts at a Norfolk
dinner with this toast:
Our Country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right;
but right or wrong, our country!
His words with reference to Commodore James Barron, who he blamed for the loss of the
Chesapeake, resulted in a duel near Bladensburg, Maryland in which he was mortally
wounded on March 22, 1820.
2. The birthday of this American hero, Stephen Decatur, is reason for us to recall the Barbary Wars, for two significant reasons:
a. because of their historical importance, the nascent America stretching her wings.....
b. ....and because it is one more proof of the malefaction in our White House today.
3. This sort of malefaction: "Obama: 'Islam Has Been Woven Into the Fabric of Our Country Since Its Founding'
That's what the president told a White House conference on "countering violent extremism" on Wednesday.
Obama has said similar things in the past:
"I also know that Islam has always been a part of America’s story,” Obama said in a June 2009 speech in Cairo, Egypt. "Islam has always been part of America," he said in a 2010 statement marking the start of Ramadan.
And in a 2014 statement marking Eid, Obama said the holiday "also reminds us of the many achievements and contributions of Muslim Americans to building the very fabric of our nation and strengthening the core of our democracy.
"Here in America, Islam has been woven into the fabric of our country since its founding. Generations -- (applause) -- Generations of Muslim immigrants came here and went to work as farmers and merchants and factory workers, helped to lay railroads and to build up America.
"The first Islamic center in New York City was founded in the 1890s. America's first mosque, this was an interesting fact, was in North Dakota." (It was established in 1929).
Both of those milestones happened well after America's founding, however. In fact, the new nation's first dealings with Islam were tense and unpleasant.
According to a Heritage Foundation paper, shortly after America's founding, the United States "was dragged into the affairs of the Islamic world by an escalating series of unprovoked attacks on Americans by Muslim pirates, the terrorists of the era," who looted American ships and captured American sailors, holding them for ransom or selling them as slaves.
The paper notes that America's struggle with Muslim pirates from the Barbary States (modern-day Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya) began soon after the 13 colonies declared their independence from Britain in 1776 and continued for roughly four decades." Obama: 'Islam Has Been Woven Into the Fabric of Our Country Since Its Founding'
A simple mistake....
...or a sleazy liar with a malevolent agenda?
He participated in two Barbary Wars.
He was a hero in both actions. There are eighteen towns, cities, and counties named for
him across America.
After returning and stationed in Washington, D.C. he responded to his hosts at a Norfolk
dinner with this toast:
Our Country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right;
but right or wrong, our country!
His words with reference to Commodore James Barron, who he blamed for the loss of the
Chesapeake, resulted in a duel near Bladensburg, Maryland in which he was mortally
wounded on March 22, 1820.
2. The birthday of this American hero, Stephen Decatur, is reason for us to recall the Barbary Wars, for two significant reasons:
a. because of their historical importance, the nascent America stretching her wings.....
b. ....and because it is one more proof of the malefaction in our White House today.
3. This sort of malefaction: "Obama: 'Islam Has Been Woven Into the Fabric of Our Country Since Its Founding'
That's what the president told a White House conference on "countering violent extremism" on Wednesday.
Obama has said similar things in the past:
"I also know that Islam has always been a part of America’s story,” Obama said in a June 2009 speech in Cairo, Egypt. "Islam has always been part of America," he said in a 2010 statement marking the start of Ramadan.
And in a 2014 statement marking Eid, Obama said the holiday "also reminds us of the many achievements and contributions of Muslim Americans to building the very fabric of our nation and strengthening the core of our democracy.
"Here in America, Islam has been woven into the fabric of our country since its founding. Generations -- (applause) -- Generations of Muslim immigrants came here and went to work as farmers and merchants and factory workers, helped to lay railroads and to build up America.
"The first Islamic center in New York City was founded in the 1890s. America's first mosque, this was an interesting fact, was in North Dakota." (It was established in 1929).
Both of those milestones happened well after America's founding, however. In fact, the new nation's first dealings with Islam were tense and unpleasant.
According to a Heritage Foundation paper, shortly after America's founding, the United States "was dragged into the affairs of the Islamic world by an escalating series of unprovoked attacks on Americans by Muslim pirates, the terrorists of the era," who looted American ships and captured American sailors, holding them for ransom or selling them as slaves.
The paper notes that America's struggle with Muslim pirates from the Barbary States (modern-day Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya) began soon after the 13 colonies declared their independence from Britain in 1776 and continued for roughly four decades." Obama: 'Islam Has Been Woven Into the Fabric of Our Country Since Its Founding'
A simple mistake....
...or a sleazy liar with a malevolent agenda?