Posted on 10/11/2021 6:32:49 PM PDT by Conservat1
Op-Ed: Columbus’ fear of Islam, rooted in Europe’s Crusades, shaped his view of Native Americans A statue of Christopher Columbus with his face and hands spray-painted red A statue of Christopher Columbus in Miami was vandalized during protests in June 2020.(Lynne Sladky / Associated Press)
In all that has been written about Columbus — from his being the first Italian American to the progenitor of a continental genocide — one of the most crucial aspects of his biography is missing: A primary force behind Columbus’ Atlantic crossings was a fear and hatred of Islam.
This shaped how white Europeans engaged with the “New World” and its native peoples for centuries, and how today’s Americans understand the world. It should influence how we think about the second Monday in October — whether you call it Columbus Day, Indigenous Peoples Day or Italian Heritage Day.
Columbus was born into Europe’s anti-Islamic mind-set in 1451, raised on tales of the Crusades and the territorial losses his hometown of Genoa suffered after the Ottoman Empire’s capture of Constantinople in 1453.
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Yep his knowledge of history is apparently non existent. His mastery of fashionable Leftist revisionist propagandas is excellent.
Apparently political fidelity, not academic excellent, is what gets you a posh Ivy League job.
The author has a debased insane mind.
You can’t even argue with people that warped.
I fear Islamist
It is true that Europe was looking for ways to fund its wars against Islamic, because it was trying to free itself from Islam.
That part is true. But that’s about the only part.
Or the fact that the entire northern littoral of the Med, and Atlantic coast clear to Norway, were still subject to Moslem slaving raids, which went on well into the 19th century.
People don’t like Columbus because he brought Catholicism to the western world.
“after the Ottoman Empire’s capture of Constantinople in 1453.”
...Europeans needed to find new trade routes, since the old Silk Road now had a hostile power controlling and taxing it.
So the Age of Exploration began, and into it, stepped Columbus.
So Islam did provide some impetus.
Columbus was Italian; it was the Spanish royals who financed his expedition.
The Turks just subdued all Balkans, and shortly thereafter they were at the gates of Wien. Killing and taking slaves.
He definitely got the slave thing from Muslims.
The Balkans were finally freed by 1912, the Anatolia was never freed.
When I want intellectual scholarship, Free Republic is the place to look. I often spend more time reading the comments than the actual article and am seldom disappointed.
I think you meant East Indies? And not all of the East Indies were under Muslim rule. There was also the China opportunity.
And yes, Muslim control of the Med, Egypt, the overland Silk Route was the impetus for da Gama’s voyage around Africa and Columbus’s voyages westward.
He’s nuts Columbia had Moslems on his ships
European rulers obsessively feared Muslim expansion;
They had 700yrs of history on their side,,,all the author has is assertions.
“European rulers obsessively feared Muslim expansion”
An example of what they feared: “It’s a quiet late night in an Italian coastal village with everyone sleeping soundly. Under cover of darkness several ships dock, the people on board get off, group-up, and silently head into that village. Then they strike, taking the women and children (women to be concubines, children to be converted to Islam), and as many men as they can handle (to be slaves), with the rest being killed. The people they take are loaded into the boats and taken to North Africa for their ‘new’ lives.”
I’d consider that something to fear.
Maybe because Islam has been invading Europe since the 700s............/s
Colon was a slave trading lying jew and pos.
A marrano
“Christopher Columbus ought be allowed to speak for himself on this”
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Ditto
Absolute nonsense. I’d love to see the PRIMARY sources on this. LoL...
This is what is known as *revised* history folks.
It’s not like the Islamic dynasty was violent in South of Spain... sarcasm on.
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