Posted on 11/15/2014 2:30:53 PM PST by Eleutheria5
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday that the Americas were discovered by Muslims in the 12th century, nearly three centuries before Genoese explorer Christopher Columbus claimed the discovery in the name of Spain.
"Contacts between Latin America and Islam date back to the 12th century. Muslims discovered America in 1178, not Christopher Columbus," the president said in a televised speech during an Istanbul summit of Muslim leaders from Latin America.
"Muslim sailors arrived in America from 1178. Columbus mentioned the existence of a mosque on a hill on the Cuban coast," Erdogan said.
Erdogan said that Ankara was even prepared to build a mosque at the site mentioned by the Genoese explorer.
"I would like to talk about it to my Cuban brothers. A mosque would go perfectly on the hill today," the Turkish leader said.
In an article published in 1996, historian Youssef Mroueh refers to a diary entry from Columbus that mentions a mosque “on top of a beautiful mountain” in Cuba. But the diary entry is widely understood as a metaphoric reference to a protuberance on the summit of a mountain that resembles a mosque's dome or minaret.
A tiny minority of Muslim scholars have recently suggested a Muslim presence in the Americas before Columbus, but no...
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What total crap they believe.
The Vikings dispute that claim.
make us give it back.
God please...wipe them out.
First the mussies discovered the sun and it went downhill from there .....
Muslims discovered oppression, terror, backwardness.
The American Indians beat them by thousands of years...NEXT...
Mad Mo’ discovered pedophelia.
Muslims invented the light bulb. Edison was simply a front man.
Yeah, I guess they were in full Jihad mode on the Mayflower, right?
Making up history. Guess he is channeling his inner Arafat.
They haven’t even discovered basic civility yet, and it’s looking them in the face all the time.
Muslims discovered oppression, terror, backwardness.
And they’ve been spreading it by the sword for 1500 years.
They were still throwing it,when Columbus discovered it.
That is exactly what I was thinking!
Since there is no archeological evidence that suggests this the only thing I have to say to Erdogan is...prove it.
Heck I could say I discovered the internet...that wouldn’t make it so. We all know Al Gore did.
With the viking claims, the muslim claims, and now the chinese claims to have discovered western North America who HASN’T discovered it?
CC
Quite a few people discover pedophilia, and that they enjoy it. But Mad Mo was hardly the first, just the most successful.
I thought Joseph swan invented the light bulb
North America was never lost, it is right where it has been for thousands of years.
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