10-30-2015, 02:22 PM
(10-30-2015, 02:15 PM)StLucieBengal Wrote: Yes and he saw how violent and irrational they were and straight away in his presidency he went and stomped them out.
None of which he blamed on their religion. All of his writings on the topics of the Barbary pirates indicate he saw it as more of a political and economic issue than a religious one.