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• Title: Islam's Christian Captives (Captives and Their Saviors in the Medieval Crown of Aragon) (Book Review)
• Author : Modern Age
• Release Date : January 01, 2008
• Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 182 KB

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Captives and their Saviors in the Medieval Crown of Aragon, by Jarbel Rodriguez (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America, 2007). 225 pp. For centuries, Muslims have captured Christians in exchange for demands of one kind or another. During the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the United States disbursed "protection money" to North African Muslim pirates--against the advice of Thomas Jefferson, who argued that paying only encouraged attacks ("Millions for Defense, not One Cent for Tribute," was his version of delenda est Carthago). When he and John Adams tried to end the practice through negotiation, they were told by Tripoli's ambassador to London that extorting money and taking slaves was justified by the Quran, which admonished Muslims to make Jihad against unbelievers and take them captive until they were ransomed. As president, Jefferson finally got his wishes: in 1801 he refused to pay what was de facto a traditional tribute of non-Muslims (the jizya). The North Africans then desecrated the American flag and the president, without a Congressional declaration of war but with Congressional authorization, sent the U.S. Navy and Marines against Tripoli. By 1816, after two wars, the U.S. had succeeded in ending Muslim attacks on ships and the enslavement of Christians in the Mediterranean.

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