Mt. Soledad cross ordered to be taken down

[rexbeccarox]

You do know the Treaty of Tripoli was American dishonesty towards the Tripoli of Barbary state, right?

And since when it is acceptable to use Wikipedia as a citation?

So what if it was? We were trying to get the damned pirates to stop attacking our ships... and our Christians, as they were being extra persecuted because they weren't Muslims! The point is the language, ratified by the senate, is very clear: we were not founded on the Christian religion.

Wiki is a perfectly acceptable citation if the authors of the articles are citing correctly... especially when the exact language of the Treaty (or any other document) is right there in that article.