Quote:proof please from legitimate objective sources.
I have no idea if the Barbary pirates were Christians,it's a strawman.
I DO know about the Treaty of Tripoli: ratified unanimously by the US Senate June 7, 1797,signed into law by president John Adams June 10 1797.
Quote:Article 11 reads:
Art. 11. As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion,—as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen [Muslims],—and as the said States never entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mahometan [Muslim] nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Tripoli