He also became the first U.S. president to deal with "Islamic terrorism": > Jefferson and John Adams ... went to call on Tripoli's envoy to London, Ambassador

He also became the first U.S. president to deal with "Islamic terrorism": > Jefferson and John Adams ... went to call on Tripoli's envoy to London, Ambassador Sidi Haji Abdrahaman. They asked him by what right he extorted money and took slaves in this way. As Jefferson later reported to Secretary of State John Jay, and to the Congress: > The ambassador answered us that [the right] was founded on the Laws of the Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have answered their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as prisoners, and that every Mussulman who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise. http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fighting_words/2007/01/jeffersons_quran.html http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fighting_wor... It wouldn't be out of place for someone from ISIS to say the exact same thing today.