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Originally Posted by Evang.Benincasa
George dealt with Barbary Pirates. Who happened to be Muslims. Muslims who captured other Muslims as well as Christians for slave trade.
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It was Thomas Jefferson. And when diplomats were sent, they were told bny the "Barbary Pirates" that as infidel they were available for slavery so deal with it.
Incidentally the "Barbary Pirates" were in fact the agents of the Dey's (local Ottoman Leader) of Algiers and Morocco.