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I don't get it. I'm not trying to be a SA but rather trying to understand this thread. I don't get how a religion that has been around since circa 633 AD but yet has only "recently" (i.e. Nov '79) been at war with the US.
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John Quincy Adams and Thomas Jefferson would beg to differ...
Thomas Jefferson and John Adams went to negotiate with Tripoli's envoy to London, Ambassador Sidi Haji Abdrahaman, and they inquired by what right the Maghrib preyed upon American shipping, enslaving both crews and passengers....and this was 200 years prior to America becoming a dominant international power in the Middle East.
"The ambassador answered us that [the right] was founded on the Laws of the Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have answered their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as prisoners, and that every Mussulman who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise"
-Thomas Jefferson-
"…he [Muhammad] declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind…The precept of the Koran is, perpetual war against all who deny, that Mahomet is the prophet of God.."
-John Quincy Adams-