(May 10, 2011 at 2:33 am)Shell B Wrote: That was not during the American Revolution. I suggest you read more. Furthermore, Moroccans were also the first to attack U.S. merchant ships. I'm pretty sure they were not protecting U.S. ships so much as abiding by a treaty. I could be wrong, though. I have not researched the Barbary Wars to any great degree. I can assure you, though, this did not happen during the American Revolution. France protected colonial merchants at that time.
Just wiki Morocco it has all the info there.
Quote:That is really a partial truth. Did you know that the Vietnamese were slaves for at least decades, possibly centuries (You google it for me.), before we showed up? There was a reason to fight, people just always choose the wrong one.
As far as this religion is concerned, the ends do not justify the means. There are better ways to put an end to slavery.
Quote:Christianity. You know Jews and Christians hated each other for a very long time. What makes you think atheists, as a group (there really is no group, just hypothetically), encourage ethnic cleansing? You have been conversing with me for hours. Do I give you the impression that I would encourage such a thing?
Look up the eugenics movement going on in all the secular nations.
Quote:What the fuck are you talking about?
I'll make a new thread on this topic. Paper money and intentional inflation is against this religion.
Quote:I don't know much about Iran, but there has never been a country that fully respected human rights, whatever those are.
The nation that invented human rights has always respected and valued it.
