Seventeenth Century Islam

    During the seventeenth century, about one million Europeans were taken by Muslims or their proxies and either killed, ransomed, or sold into slavery. One tenth of them were chosen by the sultans of the ports they came into as their share of the booty. Another one million North Africans were treated similarly. How do the high school graduates at many of our top schools- the crybullies- want to respond to that? Are we going to see them say that their universities can't accept money from Muslims, most particularly in the Middle East Chairs that have been established on campuses to promote a white-washed picture of Islam? Or don't white slaves count for these pampered little brats who have probably never held a job except for resume builders? Do they realize Saudi Arabia didn't close its slave markets until 1964, the year I started college? Do they realize how much of the world Islam controlled, and that it almost took Europe too?
    The dominant power in the Mediterranean, and the biggest market, was the immense Ottoman Empire, a huge aggregate of conquered territories and vassal states which went thousands of miles from the Caspian Sea in the East where it is on the western border of today's Turkmenistan all the way to the Atlantic Ocean, and then south as far as the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf. Its center was Istanbul, and citizens of Algeria, Athens and Armenia paid taxes to the Ottoman sultan at the Topkapi Palace as did Bulgaria, Baghdad, Cairo, and the Crimea, Hungary, and the Yemen. But did the Muslims control the Mediterranean rather than the Europeans? Stay tuned. This comes from the Pirates of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests, and Captivity in the 17th Century Mediterranean by Adrian Tinniswood.
    A word about the Criminal vs Jerk election: It appears to me that Trump did allude to gun-owners taking violent action against Hillary, not voting as Trump tried to cover up his statement. If she were president, the voting would be over, and he was referring to her as being president in his statement. She is a criminal, but the jerk has no business promoting vigilantism. Look at the process though: Trump says or does a jerk event, and instantly the democratic media
( that is, 96% of the media is made of Democrats) is all over the gaffe, and then Trump backs down and changes. This shows that Trump is responsive to the people -the government. This cannot be said of Hillary as she is such a pathological liar or she is so delusional that she doesn't accept that she is wrong or has done wrong. The latest example of that is her lie that FBI Director Come didn't say she had been untrue in her statement about her unauthorized email server. She is intransigent while Trump can be brought to heel, as he should.
She then is more dangerous as President than Trump which which is what you would expect a criminal to be over a mere jerk.
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary.
"The measure of a man.
 Is not what he says,
 But what he does,
 And what he allows others,
 To do in his presence."
 - Navy Seal Instructor