Posted on 11/15/2014 2:30:53 PM PST by Eleutheria5
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday that the Americas were discovered by Muslims in the 12th century, nearly three centuries before Genoese explorer Christopher Columbus claimed the discovery in the name of Spain.
"Contacts between Latin America and Islam date back to the 12th century. Muslims discovered America in 1178, not Christopher Columbus," the president said in a televised speech during an Istanbul summit of Muslim leaders from Latin America.
"Muslim sailors arrived in America from 1178. Columbus mentioned the existence of a mosque on a hill on the Cuban coast," Erdogan said.
Erdogan said that Ankara was even prepared to build a mosque at the site mentioned by the Genoese explorer.
"I would like to talk about it to my Cuban brothers. A mosque would go perfectly on the hill today," the Turkish leader said.
In an article published in 1996, historian Youssef Mroueh refers to a diary entry from Columbus that mentions a mosque “on top of a beautiful mountain” in Cuba. But the diary entry is widely understood as a metaphoric reference to a protuberance on the summit of a mountain that resembles a mosque's dome or minaret.
A tiny minority of Muslim scholars have recently suggested a Muslim presence in the Americas before Columbus, but no...
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Wow, thanks! There’s so much info here on FR.
You think someone else will claim and dispute his right to the title of despot in Turkey?
The Celts dispute the Viking claim. :)
And Muslims invented math too!
Islam is the new (or old) NAZIism and Erdman is one of its chief prophets speaking for reaL Turks.
The Solutreans win.
Wasn’t Columbus supposedly Jewish?
As far from Muz as can be.
What happened to all of the Muslim settlements and colonies? Why don’t we see movies featuring Muslims and Indians?
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