Kilmeade says that “before we had an Army, before we had a president, we had our first enemy, and it was Islamic extremists, people that bastardized the Koran in order to use it as a weapon to absolutely blackmail the west, the Spanish, the French, the British.”
Later, he adds: “In fact, here’s the quote – tell me if this sounds familiar – ‘All nations, according to the Koran, which have not acknowledged the prophet were sinners whom it was the right and duty of the faithful to plunder and enslave. Christian sailors were, plain and simple, fair game.’ That’s the quote from the Tripoli ambassador. Man, have things changed?”
So apparently Brian Kilmeade believes that this bastardization of the Qur’an has continued for at least two centuries, or longer if he doesn’t think it originated with the Barbary pirates. How did this bastardization become so widespread and long-lasting? Why didn’t Jefferson, who so famously possessed a Qur’an, correct the Tripoli ambassador and explain to him how he was bastardizing the Qur’an? Why didn’t any of the Muslims of Tripoli or anywhere else arise to fight this bastardization of the Qur’an, stop the bastardizers, and preach peace and tolerance between Muslims and non-Muslims?
In reality, for 1,400 years, without any interruption, pause, reformation, reconsideration, all over the world, wherever they have gone, from Spain to India and the New World, there have been
Muslims who have believed that “all nations, according to the Koran, which have not acknowledged the prophet were sinners whom it was the right and duty of the faithful to plunder and enslave.”
If these Muslims were bastardizing the Qur’an, it is noteworthy that nowhere in history, at any place in the world, did any Muslim movement arise to oppose them.
Don’t believe me? Get the details, largely from Islamic sources, in The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS.
“Brian Kilmeade at Restoration Weekend,” FrontPage, December 4, 2018:
…So, I did stand up for awhile, and I always thought, they’d say, “Listen, Brian, if you do 20 minutes, and you hit a high at 15, and you know you’re getting a loud laugh, do not finish. Get off.” So I’m saying, I studied Washington for 20 years and aspiring. I reaffirmed it, treated it like a new story, got new information, I can’t replicate it. Get off the stage. And then they ask me, “What are you passionate about?” I go, “Well, the war on terror has got me consumed. The whole hunt for Bin Laden is really what’s got us going.” And I said, “Well, any time people write with perspective about the war on terror, they bring up Jefferson.” Thomas Jefferson, not known as a warrior, knew there was an Islamic extremist threat, and he knew it before we had a government, before we had a president. You know why? Because before we had an Army, before we had a president, we had our first enemy, and it was Islamic extremists, people that bastardized the Koran in order to use it as a weapon to absolutely blackmail the west, the Spanish, the French, the British. Everybody in Europe would pay the price in order to, when they went through the Mediterranean by these four north African nations, to not get raided, to not get boarded, to not get their craft taken, the cargo pillaged and their people taken as hostage. We’re a new nation. All we have is war, debt and a lot of ambition, and an ability to work our way out of it; and natural resources to make it happen.
So, what are we going to do? So, it’s time for a meeting, and the meeting’s going to be between John Adams, an ambassador to England, and John Adams, ambassador to France. They wanted to talk our way out of it. They wanted to explain, “Hey, you guys got enemies. We’re brand new. We’re 2 years old. We’re not your enemy. We just want to be able to use the international waters.” They said, “They’re our waters.” So Jefferson and Adams met. They walked out with very different attitudes. Adams said, “We can’t fight them, or we’re going to have to fight them forever.” Jefferson said, “We have to fight them, because if you don’t punish the first insult, more will follow.” So what do you do? You bring your case back to this country, and because we had no Army, because we had no Navy, we had to pay the price to Tripoli, Morocco, Tunis (which is Tunisia), Algiers (which is Algeria), just so our guys can travel through the Mediterranean, and they were still taken hostage, and we still couldn’t afford to get them out, and they were still being tortured. We had our first threat.
In fact, here’s the quote – tell me if this sounds familiar – “All nations, according to the Koran, which have not acknowledged the prophet were sinners whom it was the right and duty of the faithful to plunder and enslave. Christian sailors were, plain and simple, fair game.” That’s the quote from the Tripoli ambassador. Man, have things changed?…