Posted on 05/09/2006 9:55:41 AM PDT by LibWhacker
I see a lot of people scoffing at this, but it's entirely possible. There is this "myth" in popular culture that the America's were undiscovered before Columbus, but it's simply untrue. We know that the Vikings reached North America many times before Columbus, and there are solid historical indications that the Chinese may have visited parts of the northwest coast, and that very early Russian explorers may have seen, and visited, Alaska across the Bering Strait. The stories of St. Brendan are not only plausible, but they're accurate enough to assume at least some truth to the stories of the Irish reaching America, and archaeologists have been talking for years about historical and cultural artifacts indicating some type of trans-Atlantic trade between South America and the Carthaginians & African civilizations.
When Europe was stuck in the dark ages, the Islamic world was at its peak. Its traders sailed ships all over the world, its scientists and astronomers made discoveries and established systems still used today, and cities like Baghdad and Alexandria were universally regarded as centers of learning. If the Carthaginians really did visit the America's, it's entirely possible that Muslims would have inherited maps or other records of those voyages, and that they may have repeated them.
Columbus wasn't even close to being the first to discover the America's. His success was that he was the first to make it commonly known. Columbus died thinking that he had found a new route to the Indies and wanted history to remember him as a great navigator, so he made sure that word of his discovery spread widely. His discovery was simply the one that launched the conquest and colonization of the territories.
The Babylonians came very close to the concept, in their base-60 numerical system, but the zero was first named and incorporated into a mathematical system by the Hindus:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0_%28number%29
http://www.casadellibro.com/secciones/seccion/0,,1,00.html?codigo=1
For that matter, where are all the mass graves filled with the corpses of decapitated Indians?
Oh, brother.....
ROTFLMAO!!!! I love it!!! I was thinking the same thing. You know what everyone has claimed to be in America first lately. As far as I can see it does not matter we know the truth.
Yes, they did.
Thet looked everywhere, discovered there were no Jews or other infidels to kill, so they left.
They will work hand in hand with the MSM and Mexicans and we will see the horror of Palestine before this is over...
Bingo, this is their plan and its in motion now. The illegal protests are planned to keep the pressure on
Sounds like they are all Al Gore wannabees...and sometimes he looks like a suicide hijacker.
They plan on surrounding the white house on the 19th. I figure that by the 4th of July they'll plan to occupy it.
So Mohammed discovered America?
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0_%28number%29
103 posted on 05/09/2006 11:00:00 AM PDT by MoJoWork_n
These are nothing but LIES.
Al Gore INVENTED America so he would have place to put his Internet!
Correction, the islamic world made no such discoveries, they only pillaged and translated the Greek's libraries.
There is NO evidence of Muslims in the New World. The first thing these invaders would have done is build Mosques. We have found none. They would have brought with them Islamic artifacts. We have found none. The Native Americans would have old legends of terrible blood drinking invaders from the east. There aren't any.
But wait until Al Quada gets a hold of this. *sighs*
The moslems are pissed cos Neil Armstrong stuck the American flag in allah's eye and left boot prints on his forehead.
The arab world admires (present tense) Hitler.
Arab leaders to this day use Mein Kamf as a political text book and guide.
The Nazis' were engaged in serious "super race" archeology. They just made up stuff to establish their own aryan super race.
It is a certainty the moslems are doing the same thing in order to claim they were the ones who invented or discovered something. This is going to be used to propaganda that they really own the whole planet as an islamic empire. (once a land is islamic it may never be relinquished. ie spain, El Cid not withstanding.)
It still tracks, islam's claims to glory all start with "800 years ago..."
Yes, of course they did, and that means they have clean title to the entire continent. What were we thinking?
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