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they've probably never met. but they share an ideology.
in 1785, john adams wrote to the sultan of tripoli. hoping to negotiate the end to attacks on american shipping. abd al-rahman replied...
"it was written in the koran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their (muslim) authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon whoever they could find and to make slaves of all they could take as prisoners, and that every mussulman who would be slain in battle was sure to go to paradise."
the sultan added, that if he were to stop his attacks on western shipping, what would he do with all his pirates?
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