Islam is responsible for the discovery of the Americas.

[rich69tx]

It is true that muslims had nothing to do with the founding of America as a country. However, Islam can be given some credit for the discovery of America.

Every schoolchild knows that in 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue, and discovered America while searching for a new, westward sea route to Asia. But, do most people know why he was searching for a new route to Asia?

It's because the fall of Constantinople to the muslims in 1453 closed the trade routes from Europe to the East. This, of course, was devastating for European tradesman who traveled through there on their way to and from Asia for spices and other goods by land.

It was the need to bypass the muslims altogether that motivated Columbus to try to find an ocean route to India, and led to the discovery of the Americas. So... it was the uncompromising combativeness of Islam that ultimately opened the Americas for Europe.

So, in a way, the muslims only have themselves to blame for the creation of the USA. :flag:

Source: The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades). By: Robert Spencer

God bless Sean Hannity, all of our military men and women, and may he please continue to bless the US of A :pray: - even though we may no longer deserve it.

[flashycopy]

How can you "discover" something that was never lost.

[Constantine the Great]

It is true that muslims had nothing to do with the founding of America as a country. However, Islam can be given some credit for the discovery of America.

Every schoolchild knows that in 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue, and discovered America while searching for a new, westward sea route to Asia. But, do most people know why he was searching for a new route to Asia?

It's because the fall of Constantinople to the muslims in 1453 closed the trade routes from Europe to the East. This, of course, was devastating for European tradesman who traveled through there on their way to and from Asia for spices and other goods by land.



I'm sure the massacred inhabitants and the subjugated survivors of Constantinople are somewhat comforted by this thought.

[gpd®]

I thought the Vikings were here first, for sure!

[archangelo]

It is true that muslims had nothing to do with the founding of America as a country. However, Islam can be given some credit for the discovery of America.

Every schoolchild knows that in 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue, and discovered America while searching for a new, westward sea route to Asia. But, do most people know why he was searching for a new route to Asia?

It's because the fall of Constantinople to the muslims in 1453 closed the trade routes from Europe to the East. This, of course, was devastating for European tradesman who traveled through there on their way to and from Asia for spices and other goods by land.

It was the need to bypass the muslims altogether that motivated Columbus to try to find an ocean route to India, and led to the discovery of the Americas. So... it was the uncompromising combativeness of Islam that ultimately opened the Americas for Europe.

So, in a way, the muslims only have themselves to blame for the creation of the USA. :flag:

Source: The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades). By: Robert Spencer

God bless Sean Hannity, all of our military men and women, and may he please continue to bless the US of A :pray: - even though we may no longer deserve it.

You should not publicize news like this. It could lead to an epidemic of self-beheadings throughout the mid-east, thereby forcing the Obama administration to commit billions to Muslim countries to pay for separation anxiety counseling and duct tape.

[adroit]

Forget about Native Americans, they don't really count.

[Clamp]

Columbus didn't walk across the Bering Straight for hunting.

[American Clamper]

Forget about Native Americans, they don't really count.
Why?

[Alaric]

Forget about Native Americans, they don't really count.
Why?

pssst, its sarcasm.

[Cav Scout]

I thought the Vikings were here first, for sure!

We were, the Scandahoovians were fishing the Grand Banks and tooling up the Hudson before Columbus was a thought.

[Claymore]

I thought the Vikings were here first, for sure!

Nah,, 'twere the Scots what discovered America. They didn't stay because it was too darned nice, they suspected it might be English trickery to get their sheep.:whistle:

[Claymore]

Columbus didn't walk across the Bering Straight for hunting.


And I thought driving 5 miles to a Starbucks was a long haul.
Geez, 60 miles on foot to go hunting, then Algore melts some of the icecap and floods your way home so your stuck in Alaska without a snowmobile or a Dominoe's,,, CRAP!:rolleyes:

[Stardust]

Nothing to brag about. What's changed exactly? Certainly not the blocking of the freedom of others whether it be in the form of boat passageways or other forms.

[Alaric]

I thought the Vikings were here first, for sure!We were, the Scandahoovians were fishing the Grand Banks and tooling up the Hudson before Columbus was a thought.

Riii....ght.

Then they migrated farther inland to Michigan and down the coast to Pennsylvania and crafted artifacts and made them look seventeen thousand years old.

[Cav Scout]

Riii....ght.

Then they migrated farther inland to Michigan and down the coast to Pennsylvania and crafted artifacts and made them look seventeen thousand years old.

I have no idea which artifacts you are refering to, but there are several instances in the early settlements where colonist refer to seeing Indians with blonde hair or Mustache and beard. So if you wish to challange the fact that the scandhoovians beat ol columbus to the north american continent then I suggest you read some third grade level history. Columbus was a late comer. If you perhaps thought I was speaking of Indians then you were mistaken. Oh and ol Columbus did not land on North America the first time anyway.

I would suggest early American history 101.

[archangelo]

Nah,, 'twere the Scots what discovered America. They didn't stay because it was too darned nice, they suspected it might be English trickery to get their sheep.:whistle:

Actually, the Irish (remember St. Brendan?) -- here in NY we even have the passage chambers to prove it, only the "historians" won't admit it!

[BillyBobUSA]

Forget about Native Americans, they don't really count.


Oh, do yo mean American Indians?

I am a Native American and I was never in an Indian tribe.

[BillyBobUSA]

How can you "discover" something that was never lost.

That is the silliest line of thought ever.

By that logic, Scheele could not have discovered Oxygen because it was 'never lost', as proven by people breathing it for millions of years.

The Americans were discovered in the sense that they were located using modern navigational means and the way to return was known and charted for all posterity.