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I always thought the Baptists got here first.
What tripe. Where's the goat remains?
I think Muslims visited the moon before the Americans...
Actually they did try to land in what is now Maine in 1123.
However, the Norsemen kicked their ass, allowing only 3 MUzzies to return to Tripoli to tell the tale.
Too bad the descendants of the Norsemen don't do the same thing today.
No way did there make it to America. A new land full of treasure? They'd have been there in a hearbeat to convert every living thing by the sword to Islam or enslave the infidels.
This should be attacked and not allowed to stand. This is the way that muslims have slimed their way into many countries and made invalid claims.
At that point, the article ceased to even be entertaining -- so I saw no need to read farther...
I thought they made it here on their carpets.
He rode a flying horse.
So does this mean that the Mexicans and Native Americans should now be pissed at the Islamics?
Good Lord - I thought at first this was some of that wacky crap from that kooky Ask The Imam website...
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.
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.
So Mohammed discovered America?
These are nothing but LIES.
Al Gore INVENTED America so he would have place to put his Internet!
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 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..."