In March 1786, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams went to London to negotiate with Tripoli's envoy, ambassador Sidi Haji Abdrahaman (or Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja). When they enquired "concerning the ground of the pretensions to make war upon nations who had done them no injury", the ambassador replied:
It was written in their Koran, (that all nations which had not acknowledged the Prophet were sinners, whom it was the right and duty of the faithful to plunder and enslave; and that every mussulman who was slain in this warfare was sure to go to paradise. He said, also, that the man who was the first to board a vessel had one slave over and above his share, and that when they sprang to the deck of an enemy's ship, every sailor held a dagger in each hand and a third in his mouth; which usually struck such terror into the foe that they cried out for quarter at once.[25]
Do you doubt the USA invaded Tripoli, That the marines are called leathernecks because of the high leather collars they wore to protect themselves from slashed necks?
I don't need to explain why this Islamic statesman thought the Koran said this, do you suggest this statesman was ignorant of the Koran?
Yes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Barbary_War
Yes the Ottoman State.
Do you doubt the USA invaded Tripoli, That the marines are called leathernecks because of the high leather collars they wore to protect themselves from slashed necks?
I don't need to explain why this Islamic statesman thought the Koran said this, do you suggest this statesman was ignorant of the Koran?