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Quote from Thomas Jefferson,


"The Ambassador answered us that it was founded on the Laws of their profit, 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, & 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—"


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Thomas Jefferson (more quotes by Thomas Jefferson or books by/about Thomas Jefferson)


(1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President

Source:

Letter from Thomas Jefferson and John Adams to John Jay, March 28, 1786.
Regarding the Barbary States raiding American vessels in the Meditaranean Sea.
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jay/01-04-02-0147

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Slavery, Islam, Authority, Religion, Founder

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