- Erdogan: Muslims Discovered America
- Turkey's Erdogan: Muslims discovered Americas
- NATO ally's president: Muslims discovered America
Posted on 11/21/2014 8:56:33 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The USSR claimed to have invented absolutely everything. Soviet children were taught that everything from the locomotive to the airplane had been invented in Russia. Muslims can’t seem to stop jumping headlong into the same xenophobic delusional propaganda.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday hit back at ridicule of his claim that Islamic explorers discovered the Americas three centuries before Columbus, accusing his Muslim critics of lacking “self-confidence”.
In an aggressive rebuttal of the criticism heaped in some quarters on his comments, Erdogan also suggested that the purported “discovery” of the Americas by Muslims should be taught in schools.
“A big responsibility falls on the shoulders of the national education ministry and YOK (higher education board) on this issue,” Erdogan said at a ceremony in Ankara.
“If the history of science is written objectively, it will be seen that Islamic geography’s contribution to science is much more than what’s known,” Erdogan said in televised comments.
Muslims invented geography. And science. Also making stuff up. Muslim explorers discovered America and immediately flew the planes they had just invented into it.
Erdogan, a pious Muslim who has been in power for more than a decade, stirred up controversy on Saturday when he claimed the Americas were discovered by Muslims in the 12th century, nearly three centuries before Christopher Columbus.
He cited as evidence for his claim that “Columbus mentioned the existence of a mosque on a hill on the Cuban coast.”
The AFP doesn’t bother to clarify that Columbus was talking about a hill that looked like a mosque, not a mosque. The indigenous Cubans engaged in ancestor worship. They were quite obviously not Muslims. If Muslims had encountered them, they would have beheaded them.
But congratulations to Erdogan who after having picked fights with
1. Egypt
2. Syria
3. Cyprus
4. Israel
has really gone out of his way to pick a fight with Cuba.
The United States Congress evidently thinks so.
Kick them out of NATO now.
Yes Muslims discovered America, but then people got smart and realized they did not want to live in the 7th century and converted to Christianity. Is this the story?
Muslims discovered America when bo got elected.
Seems to me I read somewhere that the Armenians got overloaded with chores and such. They ventured out into Mongolia and managed to enslave the Turks. The Armenians dragged them back home to pick their fruit and make their beds. I can’t remember how that worked out for them.
There’s a joke in that headline some where.
Yeah, an addendum to the muslim rule that anywhere a muslim craps is sacred ground.
Death to the sons of pig f’n dogs; all of them.
It is not impossible given the currents in the Atlantic. Likely many different people “discovered” America over the last several millennia. Columbs, like the Wright brothers did not do something entirely new, He, like the Wright brothers, publicized it and attempted to capitalize on it. He did not just “discover” America,” he brought it to the attention of the rest of the world.
I don’t care who discovered what. I only care that our founding fathers created a great country.
Well, that finally explains why when Columbus first stepped off the boat he saw piles of decapitated indians
Nonsense!! Everyone knows Kim Il-sung discovered America.
Muslims discovered America in 1178...Of course, that's 1178 on the *Moslem* calendar, which is 1756 AD. So, it's really not that much of a claim.
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