The Barbary Treaties was a treaty signed between the United States and Algiers in 1796.
I shall quote only a brief excerpt:
PS. This is not about the war with Iraq, so please don't bother to mention it on this thread. This is about something else entirely.
I shall quote only a brief excerpt:
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 tranquillity of Musselmen,
--and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mohammedan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever interrupt the harmony existing between the two countries.
PS. This is not about the war with Iraq, so please don't bother to mention it on this thread. This is about something else entirely.
