Posted on 02/12/2015 5:11:55 PM PST by Rusty0604
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has proposed to Cuba the construction of a mosque on the Caribbean island during a visit to Havana, pushing ahead with a plan apparently inspired by his belief that Muslims discovered the Americas.
After talks with Cuban President Raul Castro, Erdogan said on Wednesday he had sought approval for Turkey to build the place of worship in Havana that would be based on the model of a mosque in the Ortakoy district on the European shore of the Bosphorus strait in Istanbul.
Erdogan also told reporters the Cuban government had agreed with Saudi Arabia on a similar project some time ago. In light of this, his planned mosque could be built elsewhere in Cuba, he said.
It was not clear what response Erdogan had received to the proposal from the authorities in secular Cuba, a Communist-ruled nation whose population of 11 million people is predominantly Catholic with only a few thousand Muslims.
The largest mosque in Latin America is the King Fahd Islamic Cultural Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Closer to Cuba, the Caribbean nations of Trinidad, Guyana and Suriname have significant Muslim populations.
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Ahmadinejad part II
This time its a NATO ally.
PING
Hasn't Guyana suffered enough?
Go from Castro Slaves to Slaves of Islam ,WOOT
I’ll bet Castro doesn’t fall for it.
I just thought the timing is suspicious, with Obama wanting to open relations with Cuba recently.
“inspired by his belief that Muslims discovered the Americas. “
No, the Muslims FORCED Europeans to Discover the Americas because they were sick of having to pay tribute to get through islamistan in order to get their chinese stuff which was very expensive at the time compared to now....
So they looked for a different way to get to china...
We should be able to blame the Muslims for “European Colonialism” by Erdogan’s logic...
We better pay attention to the growing muslim population south of the border anyway.
Why do we sell this budding islamist nut weapons and fighter jets?
Castro is already in charge and doesn’t need allies and doesn’t want to promote instability - so you are correct. There’s no way he will allow it.
Now if Castro WASN’T in charge, but was a leftist on the outside trying to find a way in - YES, because that’s how they achieve and hold power - through creating destruction, and chaos.
Jihad. It will come whether or not Cubans want it. They’re ripe for the occurrence. They do not have a history or philosophy to stop it.
1492 was a big year as it turns out.
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