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Mooshelle can rewrite history now
C&P of a Yahoo story. The insanity of Islam knows no bounds. its practitioners are truly deeply messed up folks.
We can burn all the old history books so Mooshelle and this nut-case can correct the glaring error of discovery.
Erdogan says Muslims, not Columbus, discovered Americas
AFP
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Muslims discovered America in 1178
Istanbul (AFP) - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday that the Americas were discovered by Muslims in the 12th century, nearly three centuries before Christopher Columbus set foot there.
"Contacts between Latin America and Islam date back to the 12th century. Muslims discovered America in 1178, not Christopher Columbus," the conservative 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.
History books say that Columbus set foot on the American continent in 1492 as he was seeking a new maritime route to India.
A tiny minority of Muslim scholars have recently suggested a prior Muslim presence in the Americas, although no pre-Columbian 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.
We can burn all the old history books so Mooshelle and this nut-case can correct the glaring error of discovery.
Erdogan says Muslims, not Columbus, discovered Americas
AFP
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Muslims discovered America in 1178
Istanbul (AFP) - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday that the Americas were discovered by Muslims in the 12th century, nearly three centuries before Christopher Columbus set foot there.
"Contacts between Latin America and Islam date back to the 12th century. Muslims discovered America in 1178, not Christopher Columbus," the conservative 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.
History books say that Columbus set foot on the American continent in 1492 as he was seeking a new maritime route to India.
A tiny minority of Muslim scholars have recently suggested a prior Muslim presence in the Americas, although no pre-Columbian 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.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Muslims discovered America in 1178
Istanbul (AFP) - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday that the Americas were discovered by Muslims in the 12th century, nearly three centuries before Christopher Columbus set foot there.
Even if they did beat Columbus by 300 years, they still lost to the Vikings by two centuries.
Norse settlers were setting up in Newfoundland around 1000 AD.
Stupid * muslims still haven't figured out what we've known for 40 years.....Columbus wasn't the first from the "Old World" to sight the "New World".
http://www.voanews.com/content/muslim-friday-prayers-to-be-held-for-the-first-time-at-washington-national-cathedral/2520095.html
Last updated on: November 14, 2014 3:40 PM
WASHINGTON-
Prayer carpets were laid out under the soaring arches of the Washington National Cathedral early Friday for an unprecedented Muslim worship service in one of the best known churches in the United States.
Reverend Gina Campbell welcomed worshippers, declaring the Washington National Cathedral "a place of prayer for all people."
"Let us stretch our hearts and let us seek to deepen mercy for we worship the same God," she told the men and women sitting separately in rows, on the floor before her.
Muslims conduct an unprecedented worship service at the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., Nov. 14, 2014. (D. Manis / VOA)Muslims conduct an unprecedented worship service at the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., Nov. 14, 2014. (D. Manis / VOA)
Muslims conduct an unprecedented worship service at the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., Nov. 14, 2014. (D. Manis / VOA)
In the sermon, or Khutba, Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool praised religious freedom in America and lashed out against extremism, specifically mentioning Islamic militants who have slaughtered Christians in the Middle East.
"If we do not stop them at the monasteries, they will make their way to the mosques," he said.
Church leaders and their Muslim partners say they hope the Friday Jumaa prayers will send a message of interfaith brotherhood that counters extremists' use of religion to justify hatred and strife.
The idea came to the cathedral's director of religious liturgy, Rev. Gina Campbell, and South African Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool, who is a Muslim, when they organized an interfaith
Yet, of course, these dolts can claim anything they want. There is a) no evidence of an actual mosque b) no evidence that these mythical mosque builders knew where they were, c) no evidence they reported their "discovery" to anyone (i.e. to actually make it.. you know, an actual discovery). And I notice they can name no specific individual... merely "muslims" (who could have been from anywhere). Big whoop, if they want to change the argument to which false religion discovered the area, they still lost. The natives were practicing false religion far, far earlier.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain