Posted on 08/03/2016 4:06:56 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever
islam has always been about rape, pillage and death so likely maybe.
Anytime you can convince greedy people that a sky daddy approves of your mayhem, you will have followers.
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Amen FRiend, Hashem/the Lord/ Godetc guided him, not that foul usurper.
Indeed. Add to that the carnal nature of the Islamic afterlife, which is such effective bait that the concept could only have come from Satan himself.
Indeed.
Islam is Pure Evil
So the world ended in 1657.
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I'd explain more fully, but then I'd have to kill ya...
Remember, you read it here first...
With a cavalry of 80,000, Moors wielding curved scimitar swords
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Moops, not Moors.
George Costanza reference.
It made a lot of sense for the Spanish to take a flyer on that guy who claimed you could travel to Asia by sailing West instead of East.
Great post! (sadly)
Yes.
He proposed finding an alternative route to the Silk Road, which was controlled by Moslems...
A look at the map explains it. Europeans knew where China and India were since Alexander the Great. There was even a road called the Silk Road that linked Europe, and Asia. However, since the early Islamic days, the silk road travelled through Islamic territory.
Look at all the voyages on the map. They avoid one area completely, and that's the silk road route east to Asia.
Absolutely. Merchants and armies to support them were getting slaughtered overland. Human history as been a slaughterhouse. We’ve always been running from anti-freedom, anti-individual, anti-life gangs, governments, collectives. Witness history.
The greatest anti-truth, anti-freedom, anti-individual, anti-life collective in history and its lesser counterparts...are still on the loose...inside the greatest republic in the history of civilization.
Mohammedism/Marxism ALERT!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABbc-O_3_Ac
God bless America.
Note the name of the ship, the Santa Maria
“...the Santa Maria, was a larger type of ship, a carrack, and was captained by Columbus.”
Islam controlled the land routs to Asia and the European rulers and merchants were powerfully interested in finding non Moslem controlled alternate routes.
bfl
Yes, plus ‘in 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue’...and 1492 also not by coincidence commenced the Spanish Inquisition under Torquemada. The large Jewish population of both Spain and Portugal was caught between being dhimmie to the Moors and ‘starter’ for the flaming stake of the newly powerful Spanish prelate, his Church and forced conversion. Thus we have Rodrigo, navigator to Columbus, Jewish and subject of a brief, but researched commentary by Will Durant and his histories.
And forced conversions of Mussulmans and Jews. It worked. They retained secretly their religions but their decendants are not Moslems.
Was unaware that the relics of Sts. Peter and Paul were desecrated in Rome in 846 AD.
In junior high school history of western civilization, the whole story of Ferd and Isabella and Chris Columbus was a jolly tale well told, and Christianity was given the nod as a positive impetus contributing to the discovery of the New World, along with the desire for a new trade route to India.
But we were taught NOTHING about the Ottoman Empire, or the ongoing, brutal Muslim invasions of Europe, the desecrations of Christian holy places, and the slaughter.
My recollections of western civ requirements did touch on the Ottoman Empire, as a political entity, but any connection to Islam was glossed over.
This was a curious omission.
I only learned these things years later thru independent reading.
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