[LibWhacker]

Oh, brother... Next thing you know, they and their socialist pals at HNN are going to claim muslims walked on the moon before Armstrong. In 700 AD, no doubt.

HNN is inviting comments on their website.

[Brilliant]

Yes, of course they did, and that means they have clean title to the entire continent. What were we thinking?

[Prost1]

Camel riding SLAVE TRADERS! I doubt it!

[BadAndy]

"Did Muslims Visit America Before Columbus?"

Did someone find a bunch of beheaded Indian skeletons?

[DesertSapper]

Let's take the claim at face value for a second: some Muslim found the American continent(s) before Columbus.

If this is in fact true, what does it matter? The Chinese claim the same and the Norse most likely did.

Here's the only thing that matters: who did something about it? Columbus. None of the others. Period.

[fortunecookie]

Oh, brother... Next thing you know, they and their socialist pals at HNN are going to claim muslims walked on the moon before Armstrong. In 700 AD, no doubt.

LOL, I was thinking the same thing, a trip to the moon. And they invented the internet and the lightbulb and the telephone long before Algore and Edison and Bell, and they disdained their use, too! Puh-lease. What's next? They have a cure for the avian flu, a flu created by them, no less...

[beer]

Muslims perfected insanity.

[Fintan]

Next on the agenda, Lewis & Clark had Muslim guides.

[Redcloak]

Columbus landed on a small Bahamian island on Oct. 12, 1492. Although Columbus renamed it, the island was called Guanahani by the native Mandinka islanders.

She lost me right there. The Mandinka are native to West Africa.

But, moving on, the real question is: So what?  Lots of people "discovered" the Americas before Western Europeans did; however, none of them did anything with that knowledge. The same is true in many areas of science. Savages in the third world stumbled across many things before Westerners did, but it's the application of that knowledge that sets us apart from them.

Knowing something and knowing what to do with that something are two different things.

[blinachka]

Is it possible that there were Muslims in the Americas before Columbus? Some claim that Muslims came to America hundreds of years before Columbus arrived in the New World. Are the claims true?

Possible? Sutre, anythign's possible. Likely? Nope! Also remember that Moslems claim the Noah, Moses, Adam and Jesus are all relly Moslems. Oh and according to the Koran Moses and Noah lived at the same time...(or something to that effect...it's so ridiculous I've blocked it from my memory).

[tet68]

If you would destroy a nation, first destroy it's history.

We have seen how muslims react, regarding lands they consider theirs by right.

[SunkenCiv]

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[Cementjungle]

Is it possible that there were Muslims in the Americas before Columbus?

Of course, seeing as they had nuclear-powered hydrofoils back then.