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Erdogan: Muslims Discovered America
Arutz Sheva ^ | 15/11/14 | Gil Ronen

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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To: Eleutheria5

The one thing the Muslims did create was a ‘religion’ that that provided escape from one true GOD. Such was not available to them from Abraham when Rachel was kicked out Abraham’s tent. Mohammed ,poor soul, not being of Sarah’s lineage needed comforting and wars to assuage his hurt feelings. It has to be admitted he has done quite well with his cult.


61 posted on 11/15/2014 3:58:11 PM PST by noinfringers2
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To: Eleutheria5

Sorry Recap. Camels don’t float.


62 posted on 11/15/2014 3:59:49 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer ('Provisional ballots'. When legal votes just aren't getting the job done. - The DemocRATS.)
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To: Eleutheria5

And the White House was built upon a designated muzlim holy site...


63 posted on 11/15/2014 4:01:02 PM PST by Iscool
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
The idiotic a-holes also claim that the Greeks stole everything from the Great Library of Alexandria -- an archive of ancient learning started after Alexander the Great's conquest of Egypt. Thanks Eleutheria5.
64 posted on 11/15/2014 4:01:51 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______________________Celebrate the Polls, Ignore the Trolls)
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To: Eleutheria5

When the muzzies discovered America in the 1960’s, the first thing they did was plant their butt-ugly mosques to pollute the skyline and then complained about the maltreatment of the religion after which they proceeded to wage war on their host by flying airplanes into their buildings.

America’s answer was to accommodate them and grant the muzzies special privileges and put one of them in the White House.


65 posted on 11/15/2014 4:03:32 PM PST by 353FMG
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To: Eleutheria5
I believe they're mistaken.

Wasn't it African Blacks who discovered America?

Evidence Africans Discovered America 170 years Before Columbus

"Pathe Diagne is a Political Scientist, linguist, historian of civilizations, and Professor for
Cornell University, Diagne ensures he has proof through maps and documents that a West
African mariner prince led an expedition of 2,000 boats to the New World and settled there."


66 posted on 11/15/2014 4:03:56 PM PST by Iron Munro (DHS has the same headcount as the US Marine Corps with twice the budget)
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To: xrmusn

Who invented the really big pit underneath, so that the bodily wastes had somewhere to go?


67 posted on 11/15/2014 4:05:43 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: Eleutheria5
pig-loving 🐷 kook!

68 posted on 11/15/2014 4:06:13 PM PST by skinkinthegrass ("Bathhouse" E'Bola/0'Boehmer/0'McConnell; all STINK and their best friends are flies. d8^)
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To: noinfringers2

What? Abraham had Ishmael (Mohammed’s ancestor) by Sarah’s maid Hagar. Hagar and Ishmael had to leave because Sarah said so and God backed her up with Abraham. Ishmael was 13 years old and Isaac) (God’s promise) was 2 or 3, anyway Ishamel was making fun of him.

Isaac is the ancestor of the 12 tribes of Israel. Rebekah was Isaac’s wife, and bore him two sons, Esau and Jacob...

Esau sold his birthright for some stew Jacob made, and Jacob had to leave home and go to Laban in another place to escape Esau wrath after he also got his father’s blessing for the firstborn.

Laban had two daughters and Jacob wanted Rachel, but Leah the oldest was given to Jacob, and he had to stay and work to marry Rachel....etc.


69 posted on 11/15/2014 4:07:23 PM PST by Kackikat
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To: Eleutheria5

They must have left behind a Koran as an instructional book.

70 posted on 11/15/2014 4:07:40 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: SunkenCiv

The library was burnt down by a Muslim conqueror.


71 posted on 11/15/2014 4:07:50 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

There’s proof. Just like that Syrian guy.


72 posted on 11/15/2014 4:10:55 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Even if it’s true (highly doubtful), so f’n what?


73 posted on 11/15/2014 4:40:19 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Terry L Smith

Actually, modern Turkish is written in the Latin alphabet, just like ours. This was one of the earliest reforms of Kemal Ataturk who discarded the cumbersome Arabic script for the Western alphabet. Literacy among Turks greatly increased.

Ataturk basically hated ANYTHING that came from the Arab world, especially Islam which he regarded as a primitive war lord religion fit only for superstitious savages (smart man!). He closed Hagia Sophia as a mosque & turned it into a museum.

Well, surprise, surprise! Erdogan plans to reopen Hagia Sophia for Islamic worship, & there’s talk that the Ataturk mausoleum, larger than the Lincoln Memorial and for decades a shrine for Turks who prefer secular governance, to be closed indefinitely for “repairs”.


74 posted on 11/15/2014 5:20:46 PM PST by elcid1970 ("I am a radicalized infidel.")
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To: Eleutheria5
It is most likely that there were Chinese who visited North America well before thenmohammedan savages. Regardless, with both of them, like Ericson before them, is "What did they do with the knowledge gained?" History tells us the answer: nothing.
75 posted on 11/15/2014 6:05:42 PM PST by zeugma (The act of observing disturbs the observed.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Who invented the really big pit underneath, so that the bodily wastes had somewhere to go?
= = = = = = = = = = = = =

Good question but I guess the most important person —after the invention of clothes, was the guy who figured it was better to drop trou before ‘going’.

Of course by dropping trou you lose that warm and fuzzy feeling that you became used to while in diapers.


76 posted on 11/15/2014 6:28:47 PM PST by xrmusn ((6/98) Would love to buy BO for what he is worth, then sell him for what he thinks he is worth.)
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To: Eleutheria5

if, indeed, a muslim landed here before Columbus, it just marks another thing that they screwed up...land here and don’t write it down nor tell anone BRILLIANT


77 posted on 11/15/2014 6:50:33 PM PST by terycarl (common sense prevails over all)
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To: Eleutheria5

They’re defecating all over everything!


78 posted on 11/15/2014 6:59:14 PM PST by Califreak (Hope and Che'nge is killing U.S./CDC=Contagion Distribution Center)
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To: Eleutheria5

Muslims invented the Edsel.


79 posted on 11/15/2014 7:00:28 PM PST by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Q’risopher Q’lumbus and the NinaQ ,PiintQ’a, and the q’anta Mo’ria.

Got it.


80 posted on 11/15/2014 8:20:52 PM PST by COUNTrecount (There's no there there.)
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