We've learned to expect warped history from our deluded president, sadly.
But the champions of Islamist historical revisionism don't stop there. Just as the militaristic goal of Islam is to conquer America itself, the goal of the more scholarly Islamists is to completely conquer American history.
Toward that end, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan earlier today trotted out a favorite Muslim theory, that Muslims discovered America centuries before Columbus.
Erdogan, as other Muslim leaders and scholars have done, has pointed to Columbus himself as a witness to the "truth" of a Muslim presence in America.
The claim goes that in his journal, Columbus reported a mosque on top of a hill in Cuba. "Contacts between Latin America and Islam date back to the 12th century. Muslims discovered America in 1178, not Christopher Columbus," Erdogan said in his televised speech to a summit of Muslim leaders from South America.
The cited source of this bit of nonsense is actually a passage written by Columbus on Monday, October 29, 1492, while sailing near the mouth of a beautiful river, which he described as flowing from between two mountains. He described one of the mountains as having on its summit another little hill "like a graceful mosque."
Combine that report of a natural feature with a vague report by the 10th-century Muslim historian al-Masudi of a sailor named Khoshkhash who sailed onto the "Sea of Darkness" (the Atlantic, beyond the Pillars of Hercules) and eventually returned laden with bounty.
There you have the entire basis of the Muslim claim to have discovered America. No archaeological evidence of a pre-Columbian Muslim presence has ever been found.
No comments:
Post a Comment