Barbary Wars
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Oct 14, 2026
James EarlyHOST
Perhaps most importantly, it established an American naval tradition built upon initiative, aggressiveness, and the willingness to challenge stronger opponents.
James EarlyHOST
Those qualities would characterize the United States Navy through its early history, from the Quasi-War with France and the Barbary Wars to the War of 1812.
James EarlyHOST
And I have to stop and put in a shameless plug here.
James EarlyHOST
If you're new to the podcast, you might like that I did a series with Scott Rank on the Barbary Wars, and I did a series with Steve Guerra on the War of 1812, both of which are heavily naval by nature.
James EarlyHOST
So I recommend that you go back and listen to those.
James EarlyHOST
John Paul Jones expressed that spirit better than anyone, the spirit of aggressiveness and initiative.
Nancy WhiteGUEST
And that goes back, I'm gonna touch on our history for a moment.
Nancy WhiteGUEST
For those that may not know, shortly around the time of our Founding Fathers and the creating of our Constitution and the Bill of Rights, you have the Barbary War.
Nancy WhiteGUEST
Most people don't know about the Barbary War.
Nancy WhiteGUEST
You know about the Veteran War, uh, the Vietnam War, World War I, II, so on and so forth, but too many are not truly aware of the Barbary War.
Nancy WhiteGUEST
And what that was, it's basically pirates.
Nancy WhiteGUEST
It, it is pirates, but it was pirates who believed in the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad.
Nancy WhiteGUEST
They were, uh, a rare, uh, Arabic nature or natives and things like that.
Nancy WhiteGUEST
And what they looked at is they would take people from around the coast or from the sea and enslave them or kill them.
Raymond IbrahimHOST
Um, and then we've seen how, uh, non-Muslims, especially Europeans, understood Islam historically and what they saw, okay? And we saw the spread of Islam historically, which was in conformity to the violence preached to the Quran verses, the sword verses, the go fight and give them three choices.
Raymond IbrahimHOST
That is exactly what happened, um, from the time of Muhammad up until I stopped it with, of course, but it continued on till the present, but I stopped it with the, uh, the Barbary Wars and Thomas Jefferson.
Raymond IbrahimHOST
Once again being told a quote directly from the Quran, nine five, um, and so it's a pretty ironclad thing.
Raymond IbrahimHOST
Well, what about the present? Is this still happening? [laughs] Well, this is the part I'm not gonna spend too much time on because I as- assume you're up to speed on the present.
Raymond IbrahimHOST
I mean, they may not have used those words, but they understood that these people have a hostility for us.
Raymond IbrahimHOST
It's taught to them by their prophet and their false prophet and their false god and their false book.
Raymond IbrahimHOST
And this went on all, and, and this went on, both the jihad all the way, America's first war as a nation is with Muslims over this idea, the Barbary Wars.
Raymond IbrahimHOST
And, you know, every American, early Americans in, uh, already we're in the 20th century and we're talking about Teddy Roosevelt, and you just saw that quote.
Chris PintoHOST
Why were they being dominated by Western powers? Because these are the territories where the Muslims predominantly were practicing slavery, were waging war against Christianity, uh, had their slave ships going up and down, uh, kidnapping, enslaving, raping, murdering, uh, Western Europeans for centuries, uh, and that would be off the coast of North Africa.
Chris PintoHOST
That's the location of the Barbary Wars, okay? And so what happened? What happened is under Protestant England, the United Kingdom, and Protestant United States, under these two great powers, the Muslims through the 19th century and through World War I and World War II were completely subdued by political Protestantism, okay? And by the fighting men who were fighting under the same principles as Oliver Cromwell and the Puritans and early Americans with the Bible in one hand and the sword in the other, and they dominated over and over and over again and completely subdued the Muslim world.
Chris PintoHOST
Remember this now when you're hearing people, they want to talk about the Crusades and the Crusaders.
Chris PintoHOST
Remember that the Crusaders lost, and we have to remember what happened during that time, how they betrayed the Bible, how Rome betrayed the Bible, really.
Patrick OsbornHOST
Mm-hmm.
Todd JeffriesHOST
They've been killing Americans for, uh, generations, since the Barbary Wars, the very first wars we fought as a very young nation.
Patrick OsbornHOST
They're big fans of killing Jews, too.
Patrick OsbornHOST
A- and, uh-
Paul BrownGUEST
By the grace of God, they defeated the army of upwards of 300,000 Muslims, right? A lot of people think that America's trouble with Islam started in 1948 with the establishment of the modern state of Israel.
Paul BrownGUEST
However, the first war that America fought after our Revolutionary War of Independence with Great Britain was the Barbary Wars, which we fought with the Barbary pirates, who were Muslim North African pirates who were taking American ships and taking our crews and selling them to slavery and, you know, doing all number of terrible, evil, barbaric things to them.
Rob ManessHOST
Mm-hmm.
Paul BrownGUEST
Um, that was the first war we fought.
David RutherfordHOST
[chuckles] We won't last 30 seconds after that show, Jordy.
David RutherfordHOST
All right, so what? Go back to, uh, the Barbary Wars.
David RutherfordHOST
What happened? We were paying tribute to the Barbary pirates of the Mediterranean until finally they captured our sail- sailors, and we had to go in there with our Marines in a first North African invasion and, and kick some ass, right? Uh, the War of 1812, you had the Chesapeake Leopard.
David RutherfordHOST
Uh, in 1807, uh, the Royal Navy fired on the US warship and impresses the sailors, uh, orders the council choke trade, uh, a foreign power controlling the sea lanes American commerce depends on, on the oldest American Cassius belly, right? So, like, this is not new.
Mikey FeverHOST
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Crip JesusGUEST
go back to the Barbary Wars, which is the war that actually started this country, it was because we ran the ocean.
Crip JesusGUEST
And we checked the U.S., the Patriots, the Pilgrims, whatever you want to call them at that time on their boat, saying, who the fuck are you? What are you doing over here? We're the Pilgrims.
Crip JesusGUEST
We used to be the British.
David RutherfordHOST
We won't last 30 seconds after that show, Jordy.
David RutherfordHOST
All right, so what? Go back to the Barbary Wars, what happened? We were paying tribute to the Barbary pirates of the Mediterranean until finally they captured our sailors and we had to go in there with our Marines in the first Northern African invasion and kick some ass, right? The War of 1812, you had the Chesapeake Leopard In 1807, the Royal Navy fired on the U.S.
David RutherfordHOST
warship and impresses the sailors, orders the council choke trade, a foreign power controlling the sea lanes American commerce depends on, on the oldest American Cassius Belli, right? So this is not new.
David RutherfordHOST
World War I, the Lusitania incident, right? Understricted submarine warfare by the Germans.
Chris HandHOST
It's not something we haven't known.
Chris HandHOST
You brought up Jefferson and the Barbary Wars.
Chris HandHOST
Jefferson was written a letter from John Adams during all of that, where Adams wrote the ambassador.
Chris HandHOST
They're talking about the the war, the war against non-Muslim ships out there in Tripoli.
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