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Erdogan claims Muslims beat Columbus to the Americas
Turkish president revives disputed evidence that famous explorer found a mosque when he arrived on Cuban shore in 15th century
15 Nov 2014
Muslims discovered the Americas in the 12 century, nearly 300 years before Christopher Columbus made his famous voyage there, according to Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the president of Turkey. His words, delivered in a televised speech, will lend support to a controversial theory that has been debunked repeatedly by historians. That did not seem to bother the conservative Turkish president during a summit in Istanbul of Muslim leaders from Latin America.

"Contacts between Latin America and Islam date back to the 12th century. Muslims discovered America in 1178, not Christopher Columbus," he said. Mr Erdogan went on to say that Columbus descibed the existence of a mosque on a hill by the Cuban site and that Ankara was prepared to fund a new place of worship for Muslims there. "I would like to talk about it to my Cuban brothers. A mosque would go perfectly on the hill today," the Turkish leader said.

History books say that Columbus set foot on the American continent in 1492 as he was seeking a new maritime route to India. Other accounts suggest he may have been beaten there by Leif Erikson, a Norse explorer, or by the ancient Phoenicians

A tiny minority of Muslim scholars have recently suggested a prior Muslim presence in the Americas, although no pre-Columbus ruin of an Islamic structure has ever been found. In a controversial article published in 1996, historian Youssef Mroueh refers to a diary entry from Columbus that mentions a mosque in Cuba. But the passage is widely understood to be a metaphorical reference to the shape of the landscape.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... ricas.html

[supporttheunderdog]

Thor Heyerdahl controversially demonstrated the possibility of Ancient Egyptians sailing to central America (with developments of theories about Pyramid building) but it is also more possible that the Irish visited North America in about 500 AD, long before the Muslims. The Norse certainly did.

[Get Real!]

ErdoCunt discovered the dashinobitta!

[Flying Horse]

It is quite well documented that the Vikings sailed to the south Americas some 500 years or so before Columbus. It is true that Thor Heyerdahl demonstrated a possibility that the ancient Egyptians got as far these shores with their boats, but also he recreated a norse boat could also have been used at that time.
There is also the legend of Quetzacoatl, being depicted as a tall white beared man, who the Aztecs mistakenly thought Cortez was when the Spanish landed. They thought he was their god, come back to rule them again.

Defo no muslims in those histories.

[GreekIslandGirl]

This fool (fact) needs a lesson in the difference between a metaphor and fact!

He lives in cloud cuckoo land ...

[Cap]

[bill cobbett]

Is this true, Slobbo...???

You thieving buggers now claiming that Cuba is Evkaf ... ???

[Lordo]

the fools had specific instruction to claim the whole of the atlantic basin and the continents of americas both north and south.

gavole, if you want to do somefink right you got a do it yourself.

you are expert at doin it yourself aint you billy boy especially with ms handly and ms palmer, lets not descriminate.

[bill cobbett]

For once you're quite right, Dimbo...

If they're gonna tell a lie, make it a really big whopper of a lie.

Hurriyet reporting that the extremists in Turkey (most of the population of course) are rushing to defend Mad Dog Eddy's rantings, with reports of 7th Century madrassas all over what is now the USA...

"... Staunchly pro-government media outlets in Turkey are racing with each other to prove that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was right in his recent claim that the Americas were discovered by Muslim sailors long before Christopher Columbus.

“Studies of American historians show that Islam reached the Americas in the 650s,” daily Akşam reported on Nov. 17. One of the “historians” that the article referred to, however, raised some eyebrows on Turkish social media.

“According to the study conducted between 1940-50 by Prof. Barry Fell from Harvard University, Islam arrived in the Americas in the 650s,” the newspaper said, claiming that the ruins of Islamic religious schools, or madrasahs, were found in places like Colorado, New Mexico and Indiana. ..."

[Maximus]

Hours before the Rosetta spacecraft successfully placed the robotic probe Philae on the comet 67P Churyumov–Gerasimenko earlier this week, it provided astonishing proof that Muslims had already settled the 4km long rock.