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Christopher Columbus ... crusader?
Hotair.com ^ | 10-12-22 | The Stream

Posted on 10/12/2022 7:10:26 PM PDT by DeweyCA

While all this is true, Columbus stands for and is a reminder of something else that is now little known if not completely (and intentionally) forgotten: he was, first and foremost, a Crusader — an avowed enemy of the jihad. His expeditions were, first and foremost, about circumventing and ultimately retaliating against the Islamic sultanates surrounding and terrorizing Europe — not just “finding spices” as we were taught in high school.

Many Europeans were convinced that if only they could reach the peoples east of Islam — who if not Christian were at least “not as yet infected by the Muhammadan plague,” to quote Pope Nicholas V (d.1455) — together they could crush Islam between them. The plan was centuries old and connected to the legend of Prester John, a supposedly great Christian monarch reigning in the East who would one day march westward and avenge Christendom by destroying Islam.

All this comes out clearly in Columbus’s own letters: in one he refers to Ferdinand and Isabella as “enemies of the wretched sect of Muhammad” who are “resolve[d] to send me to the regions of the Indies, to see [how the people thereof can help in the war effort].” In another written to the monarchs after he reached the New World, Columbus offers to raise an army “for the war and conquest of Jerusalem.” That his voyages centered on liberating Jerusalem from Islam is evident in the title of one 2011 book titled, Columbus and the Quest for Jerusalem.


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To: Paal Gulli
Which is why I long have considered Columbus to be the luckiest explorer who ever lived.

I would give that title to the Polynesians who discovered Hawaii since Hawaii is the most remote (now) inhabited place on earth. They managed to do it in canoes no less.

I've often thought that those must have been really wide canoes because they would have to be in order to hold their gigantic balls.

21 posted on 10/12/2022 11:27:04 PM PDT by GaryCrow
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To: SunkenCiv

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22 posted on 10/13/2022 12:43:25 AM PDT by SteveH (.all)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

It’s a cool place, but crazy expensive.


23 posted on 10/13/2022 4:35:31 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: DeweyCA

A good article. It is never acknowledged, but the voyages of Columbus and Vasco Da Gama were financed by the Knights Templar. After their suppression in France, The Templars were welcomed in Spain and Portugal as they were of material assistance in the “Reconquista”. Queen Isabella pawned her jewels to raise cash for Columbus’ voyages. That’s why on every picture of Da Gamas or Columbus ships the sails are decorated with a Templar cross.


24 posted on 10/13/2022 4:58:35 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dreams)
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To: DeweyCA

Had Columbus never sailed the New World would still have been found in 1500 by Pedro Álvares Cabral.


25 posted on 10/13/2022 6:31:04 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( FR is on GAB! https://gab.com/groups/67851)
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To: kelly4c

I believe that this will be a great read when I can find time to get to it!


26 posted on 10/13/2022 10:38:01 AM PDT by Taxman (SAVE AMERICA! VOTE REPUBLICAN IN 2022, 2023 AND 2024!)
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To: rxh4n1
That’s not what indigenous means. It simply means first group to occupy an area.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2129042-first-americans-may-have-been-neanderthals-130000-years-ago/

Reparations for Neanderthals now!

27 posted on 10/13/2022 10:40:54 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Varda

Webster: produced, growing, living, or occurring natively or naturally in a particular region or environment


28 posted on 10/14/2022 4:33:59 AM PDT by Captain Jack Aubrey (There's not a moment to lose.)
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To: Captain Jack Aubrey

Webster - In reference to “Indigenous peoples”
“b Indigenous or less commonly indigenous : of or relating to the earliest known inhabitants of a place and especially of a place that was colonized by a now-dominant group”


29 posted on 10/14/2022 4:39:17 AM PDT by Varda
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To: Taxman

Same lol. I bookmark things of interest or that I want to share with a loved one but there’s just not enough time in the day to get to it all.


30 posted on 10/14/2022 7:26:33 PM PDT by kelly4c
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To: kelly4c

YES! I need a 30 hour day!


31 posted on 10/15/2022 9:18:20 PM PDT by Taxman (SAVE AMERICA! VOTE REPUBLICAN IN 2022, 2023 AND 2024!)
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The erroneous "godsgraveglyphs" keyword, sorted:

32 posted on 10/18/2022 9:31:01 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SteveH; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; ...
Thanks SteveH.

33 posted on 10/18/2022 9:58:35 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: DeweyCA; SunkenCiv

Queen Isabella was a devout and practically fanatical Christian and she was desperately looking for a way to circumvent the surrounding of Europe. The voyage of Columbus was more about Christianity Vs Islam than anything else...............


34 posted on 10/19/2022 5:30:22 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

That’s right: the “Catholic Monarchs” completed the Reconquista. And they sent forth the greatest modern evangelist, Christopher Columbus.


35 posted on 10/19/2022 6:38:06 AM PDT by nicollo ("I said no!")
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To: Red Badger

Columbus was turned down at first, but 1492 marks the final victory in the Reconquest, the last muzzie king Boabdil was driven out, and Columbus was then brought back and told he’d have his money. :^)


36 posted on 10/20/2022 10:23:08 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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