Barbary Pirates

Reader comment on item: Bush Declares War on Radical Islam

Submitted by Gil B (United States), Oct 11, 2005 at 21:10

I disagree with your comment that the Islamists began their war against the U.S. in 1979. One could argue that the war begar in the 1880s with the war against the Barbary Pirates.

Regards,
Gil

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Daniel Pipes replies:

The Barbary pirates were Muslims, hardly Islamists.

DP