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On Columbus Day, remember: We owe the discovery of America to Islam and Muslims

Oct 9, 2017 3:48 pm By Robert Spencer

Without Islam, the United States would not exist.

That’s right: without Islam, the United States as we know it would not exist.

No, Reza Aslan has not knocked me over the head with a rock and taken over the writing of Jihad Watch, using my name. It’s absolutely true: if it weren’t for Islam and Muslims, the United States would not exist today.

Every schoolchild knows, or used to know before public school curricula became far too concerned with teaching microaggressions and diversity to bother with marginalia such as history, that in 1492 Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue and discovered America.

Why did he sail the ocean blue? Because he was searching for a new, westward sea route to Asia.

Why was he searching for a new, westward sea route to Asia?

Because the fall of Constantinople to the Muslims on May 29, 1453 closed the trade routes to the East. This was devastating for European tradesmen, who had until then since time immemorial had taken the land route through Constantinople and Anatolia to travel to India and trade for silk, spices and other goods. But when the Muslims conquered Constantinople, these tradesmen would have been taking their lives into their hands if they traveled by these ancient routes. As non-Muslims in Muslim countries, they would have been subject to being taken hostage, or enslaved, or forcibly converted to Islam, or killed outright.

Either there was going to be no more European trade with India, or a new route had to be found.

Columbus’s voyage was trying to ease the plight of European merchants by bypassing the Muslims altogether, and making it possible for Europeans to reach India by sea. And of course, as every schoolchild knows or used to know before valuable class time to teach about the inherent racism of the United States was no longer wasted on such trifles, this is why Native Americans were and often still are called “Indians,” because Columbus, not knowing there was another continent in between, thought he had indeed reached India by sailing West.

The bellicosity and intransigence of Islam ultimately opened the Americas for Europe — and made the United States possible. On this Columbus Day, if you are still able to celebrate it without being knocked to the ground or doused with red paint by Antifa, raise a glass of champagne to Muhammad, and thank him for making the great American experiment possible.

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  1. mccode says

    Oct 9, 2017 at 3:54 pm

    Robert, you’re the best.

    • Vic says

      Oct 9, 2017 at 10:43 pm

      Totally agree! The Best!!!

    • lor says

      Oct 9, 2017 at 11:12 pm

      Robert you are the supreme best! Excellent commentary for Columbus Day . Thanks for keeping us informed!!

    • Mak says

      Oct 10, 2017 at 12:42 am

      I really needed to smile today. Thanks Robert! Articles like this are a welcome break from the constant bad (and fake) news.

    • carpediadem says

      Oct 10, 2017 at 7:23 am

      Agree, what an amazing post. 🙂

  2. David says

    Oct 9, 2017 at 3:56 pm

    Islam helped form the United States in another way. In response to the depredations of the Muslim North African states (the so called “Barbary pirates”),which were seizing American ships and enslaving, raping and ransoming Americans, the U.S. had to unify enough to form and fund a strong Navy to protect U.S. shipping and citizens. It was Muslim Jihad that compelled this unification.

    • Phantomfighter says

      Oct 9, 2017 at 7:43 pm

      It was our Marine Corps- Land, Air, and Sea. From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoly…..That’s Tripoly of Libya, where Muslim Marauder Pirates ravaged trade ships crossing into the Mediterranean. Well, it was all very thought out, and even Jefferson himself studied the Koran, not to be a peaceful Muslim as Obama would have you believe (as he has stated and lied in his presentations)… but to understand why they are taught to enslave or kill the infidel. Obama gave us Lies, Columbus gave us a grand discovery. And the rest is History.

      • David says

        Oct 10, 2017 at 11:39 am

        Tripoli is in Libya. Tripoly is in “Please write the word “Tipoli” out 50 times.

      • gravenimage says

        Oct 10, 2017 at 8:01 pm

        I appreciate your point–misspellings or not. 🙂

        • C says

          Oct 10, 2017 at 10:54 pm

          Thanks to out enemies, we outsmarted them by finding a good place to live as well as come up with a defense mechanisms against them. Columbus still discovered the U.S.

      • SweetOlBob says

        Oct 16, 2017 at 2:26 am

        I’m sure that our little racist, lying, muslim fraud, Obama would agree that it was filthy muslims who discovered America.
        He probably just overlooked that fact when he gave his speech about how much muslims have contributed to the United States.
        Doggonit ! You can’t expect a guy to remember everything, can you ?

  3. Robert_K says

    Oct 9, 2017 at 4:03 pm

    But, of course, the Muslims discovered America before Columbus, askErdogan.
    ” In a televised speech in Istanbul, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan claimed that Muslims had discovered the Americas three centuries before the voyages of Christopher Columbus. He was addressing a summit of Muslim leaders from Latin America.”

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 9, 2017 at 5:17 pm

      Muslims despise history and reason, and will lay claim to anything that they think will aid their spread of Islam.

      • Mantel says

        Oct 9, 2017 at 6:38 pm

        True, the narrative in Australia amongst Muslims is that they were here long before the British or European explorers.
        They say there is even archeological proof of ancient mosques in the deserts. In reality these remnants are just the remains of small buildings made by the Afghan cameliers who were brought over in the 1800s to help with the construction of the overland telegraph wire system.

        Many australian Muslims believe what their leaders tell them about this and are without doubt that they were here before the white men and therefore more justified in taking their rightful control of this land in the coming years.

        • tim gallagher says

          Oct 9, 2017 at 9:54 pm

          Yes, any lie will do, Mantel. I heard about that claim the Muslim scum made about Australia. I think it might have been the repulsive Sheikh Hilaly, the one who described non-MUslim Australian women as “uncovered meat” and responsible for their rapes by Muslims. These imams that make these idiotic claims about how Islam made Australia,etc, look like inbred, brain dead knuckle-draggers. Zero historical knowledge. I ignore everything they say. What is really illogical is how they seem to say that once a country was Muslim, then it always stays Muslim territory. They lay claim to it forever. Totally illogical. I think things change. It’s called history. Some place might once have been overrun by Muslims, but was freed. Tough luck, Muslims, just bugger off. I hope that, far from Islam getting back countries it tries to lay claim to in perpetuity, Islam just disappears from the world. That everyone walks away from the primitive, barbaric garbage and it won’t be laying claim to anything anywhere in the world. It’ll be like the vile old Aztec religion. Extinct. I like what Blue Raven says below, Muslims were first on the moon, etc. First in everything. They are full of so much crap.

        • gravenimage says

          Oct 10, 2017 at 8:06 pm

          True, Mantel.

    • Joy D. Brower says

      Oct 10, 2017 at 7:04 am

      Everything I hear about that rotten Erdogan makes me furiouser and furiouser! He’s such a POS!! Definitely right up there with Kim Jung Mentally-Il Un!!

  4. revereridesagain says

    Oct 9, 2017 at 4:07 pm

    Not many people are aware of this fact. Thanks for posting about it, Robert! In addition, recent advancements in navigation and seamanship had encouraged greater exploration of this vast ocean beyond the strait of Gibraltar.

    Down with Islam!

    Up with Liberty, Capitalism, and Christopher Columbus!

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 9, 2017 at 5:22 pm

      Hear, hear!

  5. James P Sullivan says

    Oct 9, 2017 at 4:12 pm

    Muslims… you want it… come and take it.
    F… airheads.

    • Blangwort says

      Oct 9, 2017 at 5:26 pm

      Actually, that’s exactly what they’re doing. And thanks to our immigration laws, there is no legal way to stop them.

  6. Jf says

    Oct 9, 2017 at 4:19 pm

    I was never told this in my Politically Correct school History lessons. That would be Islamophobic! Oh that’s right! That stupid word was’nt even invented yet!

  7. Linde Barrera says

    Oct 9, 2017 at 4:20 pm

    I love you Robert Spencer, and you are 1 of my heroes. ❤ Would you please try to audition for your own one night a week comedy show? I am certain loyal JihadWatch.org readers like me would tune in, especially if Islam were the butt of many jokes, and dark but witty remarks about unnamed Islamic leaders and their enablers were stated. Lastly, maybe one of the choreographers from Radio City Music Hall could create a new dance called “Jihad Jammin’ ” where dancers are pointing their arms and fingers at each other like they are shooting rifles at one another. This show as I envision it, would be a smash hit with millions of Islamophobes tuning in every week. ? God bless you and your staff, Robert Spencer, stay safe.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 9, 2017 at 5:30 pm

      🙂

      • Linde Barrera says

        Oct 10, 2017 at 11:32 pm

        To gravenimage- Thank you for your smiley face at my comment where I joke about ‘jihad jammin’. But I really do love Robert Spencer, no joke. I hope all is sweet and pleasant for you, gravenimage.

      • Rick says

        Oct 11, 2017 at 12:40 am

        If y’all want really funny go to Youtube and watch Sands of Passion. It’s a soap opera about the Taliban and it’s hilarious.

  8. mariam rove says

    Oct 9, 2017 at 4:21 pm

    Everything from medicine to discovering America was made possible by Muslims! yet the biggest s…holes are Muslim countries! Go figure! M

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 9, 2017 at 5:31 pm

      Exactly, miriam!

  9. BlueRaven says

    Oct 9, 2017 at 4:28 pm

    Islam was first in everything, according to Muslims – who cares about the little missing facts.

    Muslims were the first to land on the moon, according to Muslims. Not a joke – they think Neil Armstrong converted to Islam when he landed on the Moon.

    The Muslims will go to any length to twist, bend, gyrate or any other wacky motion you can think of to defend Islam.

    Here is a classic – Islam existed before the first DNA got concocted – according so some Islamic “scholars” – who cares about the missing facts.

    Islam is 100% f****+up – that is a fact!

    • john vieira says

      Oct 13, 2017 at 12:17 am

      They would like to forget that Ishmael was HALF JEW !!!

  10. Ren says

    Oct 9, 2017 at 4:30 pm

    This is karma at work. The Muslims caused the turmoil in the Middle-East by taking down Constantinople halting European Tradesmen to reach India. This forced Columbus to find another route to India on the West side leading to the discovery of America, now the greatest country on earth. In return, America now causes the turmoil in Muslim countries.

    Muslims are getting back all the shit they have created!

  11. shoehorn says

    Oct 9, 2017 at 4:42 pm

    How did the European traders get through Anatolia, surely all those lands were under Muslim rule before the fall of Constantinople?

    • Robert Spencer says

      Oct 9, 2017 at 4:49 pm

      There were ways around the Muslim areas, but the fall of Constantinople closed all such passages.

      • gravenimage says

        Oct 9, 2017 at 5:47 pm

        True.

      • shoehorn says

        Oct 10, 2017 at 1:49 am

        thanks Robert

  12. Laurence Jarvik says

    Oct 9, 2017 at 4:45 pm

    Genius!

  13. Laurence Jarvik says

    Oct 9, 2017 at 4:46 pm

    Genius! You and Columbus both…

  14. Andy says

    Oct 9, 2017 at 4:46 pm

    Happy Columbus Day Robert Spencer & Everyone at JW and ALL FREEDOM FIGHTERS EVERYWHERE!!! Thank you for all the work you do.

    GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!

    BOYCOTT all NFL games, merchandise & any business that advertises with the disrespectful traitors at the NFL

    The National Felons League Is Spitting on America, Not the Fans

    http://www.breitbart.com/video/2017/09/25/michael-savage-national-felons-league-spitting-america-not-fans/

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spmaI-4CyA0

    Poll shows most Americans want to celebrate Columbus Day

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPW-2StU0jc

    What war on Columbus Day is really about: John Cardillo

    • Karen says

      Oct 9, 2017 at 8:14 pm

      “BOYCOTT all NFL games, merchandise & any business that advertises with the disrespectful traitors at the NFL”

      Yes! I tuned into the game Sunday so that I could tune out. (That accomplished nothing, but I felt better.)

      By the way, I don’t have freedom of speech at work….who does? That went out with the buggy whip, so why should NFL players be any different, and have free, coast to coast broadcast coverage of their personal beliefs?

      • Michael Casmer says

        Oct 10, 2017 at 9:48 am

        So true

      • Andy says

        Oct 10, 2017 at 8:22 pm

        Hit The NFL Where It Hurts: Their Sponsors (Full List)

        http://www.ourvetsbeforeillegals.com/hit-the-nfl-where-it-hurts-their-sponsors-full-list/

  15. Emilie Green says

    Oct 9, 2017 at 5:05 pm

    I had learned the reason why the Carib people were called Indians, and why the name West Indies endured once the geography was sorted out.

    It was only in my own readings did I learn the motivations for Columbus and others to try another way to skin the cat. Islam as always stands in the way of advancing.

    Born in the 7th C. and bound and determined to stay there.

    • Karen says

      Oct 9, 2017 at 8:19 pm

      Ah, the 7th century…those were the days! ?

  16. gravenimage says

    Oct 9, 2017 at 5:06 pm

    On Columbus Day, remember: We owe the discovery of America to Islam and Muslims
    ………………………….

    And here, I had assumed this was going to be some claptrap about Columbus having a “Muslim navigator” or something similar.

    But the above is quite true. Of course, not all societies are spurred to new achievements by this kind of adversity. The West has proven particularly strong in this regard.

    One point well worth mentioning: Europe discovered the New World, the route to Asia, and the size of the globe beginning in 1492–the very year Spain finally freed herself from the Muslim yoke in Iberia. That they then went on to launch the age of exploration is no coincidence.

    • Wellington says

      Oct 9, 2017 at 5:52 pm

      Many times, gravenimage, over the course of my history teaching career, I mentioned to students that if it had taken Isabella and Ferdinand (more Isabella than Ferdinand, more Castile than Aragon) until 1493 or 1494 to end the last Moorish kingdom in Spain, then Columbus would not have sailed in 1492 but in one of those two years (or even later had it taken the Catholic monarchs even longer to end the Kingdom of Grenada, the last residue of an Islamic polity in the Iberian peninsula, which Islamic presence, as I know you know, went back the whole way to 711). Moorish Grenada was conquered by Spain in January of 1492. Columbus sailed into regions unknown in August of that same year. As you aptly noted, these two events occurring as and when they did are definitely no coincidence. First things first and all that, i.e., rid Spain of the Saracen first and foremost, then finance a dreamer to possibly fulfill his dreams.

      A final piece of information, which I strongly suspect you already know, and which testifies to the pronounced regionalism of Spain through the centuries, even to this present day what with Catalonia trying to divorce itself from Spain. It is this: All New World discoveries due to Columbus’ four voyages were attached to Castile alone. Aragon was left out here even though the marriage of Isabella and Ferdinand created, for foreign affairs purposes, a single polity conveniently referred to as “Spain.”

      Hope you are doing well, my friend. As always, it is so good to read your posts here at JW. Take care.

      • gravenimage says

        Oct 10, 2017 at 8:17 pm

        Excellent observations, Wellington. Hope you are also well.

  17. Hugh Fitzgerald says

    Oct 9, 2017 at 5:17 pm

    While Islam of course deserves credit for Columbus’s undertaking, let’s also remember the claim the Europe owes the Renaissance to Islam. This has been stated, with especial force, by Tariq Ramadan, the bought-and-paid-for-by-Gulf-Arabs “professor” at Oxford.

    Ramadan insists that the West, that even the Renaissance, would have been unthinkable without the influence of Islam. It’s complete nonsense, as is so often the case with the portentous pronouncements of Tariq Ramadan. The only “influence” on the Renaissance that can be attributed, indirectly, to Islam, is the flight of scholars, clutching their Greek manuscripts, as they fled the Seljuk and then the Osmanli Turks and settled in Italy, and caused what in old-fashioned textbooks (the kind that refer to “Renaissance Europe” rather than the bloodlessly chronological “Early Modern Europe”) used to be called the Revival of Learning,meaning the rediscovery of classical antiquity, and from that, the Renaissance.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 9, 2017 at 5:51 pm

      Spot on, Hugh.

      And of course, the Renaissance was well under way before the flood of Greek scholars–with as many manuscripts as they could save–fleeing the Muslim conquest of Constantinople in 1453.

    • rbla says

      Oct 10, 2017 at 10:41 am

      Take a look at Steven Runciman “The Last Byzantine Renaissance”. The Renaissance began in Byzantium and was transplanted to Italy.

      BTW since Muslims were responsible for the discovery of America perhaps all these demonstrations directed against Columbus should really take place in front of mosques.

  18. Voytek Gagalka says

    Oct 9, 2017 at 5:19 pm

    Yeah, right. And Columbus (who some of yesteryear progressives slandered him as being a woman or at least a “trans”) was himself proudly and humbly wearing his hijab in total reverence to Islam (as above picture can attest how smartly he stylized that his Islamic headgarb). LOL!

  19. Ken Olson says

    Oct 9, 2017 at 5:26 pm

    Pretty much like thanking the Muslims 4 The increased security at our airports

  20. VRWC member77 says

    Oct 9, 2017 at 5:28 pm

    To the Proud Polish People……HAPPY CHRISTOPHER CIOLUMBUS DAY from America:

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 9, 2017 at 5:56 pm

      An event all patriotic Westerners should remember!

  21. Wellington says

    Oct 9, 2017 at 5:31 pm

    A classic example of the silver lining in a very dark cloud. Well said, Robert Spencer, though what you wrote will be lost on 1) Leftists; and of course 2) Muslims.

  22. Gigi says

    Oct 9, 2017 at 5:35 pm

    Columbus was a genocidal slave holding conqueror of indigenous peoples? Sounds like Mohammed, actually.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 9, 2017 at 5:59 pm

      One does not have to laud all actions by Columbus–God knows I do not–to appreciate his courage and vision as an explorer.

  23. Benedict says

    Oct 9, 2017 at 5:43 pm

    Islam is all about appropriating the means and glory in the achievements of others as if they were sparked by its illiterate prophet. Imitation and envy are the keys to human behavior.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 9, 2017 at 6:00 pm

      Not all human behavior, Benedict.

      • Benedict says

        Oct 9, 2017 at 6:37 pm

        Here is the scientific ? proof, G:
        https://zoneofcompetence.com/2014/08/31/rene-girard-and-mimetic-desire-envy-is-the-key-to-human-behavior/

        • gravenimage says

          Oct 10, 2017 at 8:38 pm

          I’ve read Rene Girard’s work, and I do not find it comprehensive in explaining all of human behavior.

          Were he correct, no human would ever break new ground–after all, he would have no one to imitate.

          He also says:

          “Whether food, water, or a desirable mate, truly desirable objects are always limited in number. This causes conflict as multiple individuals move toward the same scarce objects.”

          This is a reductive view–that everything that is desirable is simply lying around, waiting for the alpha figure to take it. But this is clearly incorrect.

          The first farmers did not simply wait around for things to grow and then seize them–they grew their own food, and then worked to improve it.

          Gold might have been interesting and shiny even in raw form, but it was not until it was mined and worked that it became of greater value.

          I also find his idea that humans are incapable of working together unless they are victimizing a scapegoat to be obviously inaccurate–as well as appallingly cynical. Humans can get together and build a barn or harvest a field without abusing others.

          (Of course, if your only point of reference is Islam, this can be difficult to believe…)

          Making these assertions on a thread about a man who did something quite unique in history is also an odd one.

        • gravenimage says

          Oct 10, 2017 at 8:59 pm

          By the way, this is not proof–it is opinion. Girard has some good points–re Christianity, for instance–but many of his opinions do not stand the least scrutiny.

  24. mortimer says

    Oct 9, 2017 at 5:51 pm

    Another great Italian MARCO POLO discovered ISLAMO-REALISM back in the 13th century.

    Whereas Marco Polo praised the Brahmins (Hindus) for their “hatred for cheating or of taking the goods of other persons,” regarding the Muslims of Tauris, (modern day Iraq), he wrote:

    “According to their doctrine, whatever is stolen or plundered from others of a different faith, is PROPERLY TAKEN, and the THEFT IS NOT CRIME; whilst those who suffer death or injury by the hands of Christians, are considered as martyrs. If, therefore, they were not prohibited and restrained by the powers who now govern them, they would commit many outrages. These principles are common to all Saracens”. (p.63).

    This is an accurate observation: Muslims consider that they will receive a DOUBLE REWARD by Allah if slain by a Christian in battle, so they are eager to cross swords with Christians.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 9, 2017 at 6:03 pm

      Thank you, Mortimer.

  25. Sam says

    Oct 9, 2017 at 6:22 pm

    Thanks Robert!

    We should also thank Islam for building our first navy, right?

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 9, 2017 at 6:30 pm

      Spot on, Sam.

  26. Transmaster says

    Oct 9, 2017 at 6:34 pm

    It is Black Pepper (Piper nigrum) that fueled the whole age of discovery. In English Tudor times (circa 1500 AD) Black Pepper was worth more than it’s weight in gold. A handful of Black Pepper could purchase a substantial residence in London. The other other spices, cloves, Nutmeg, Mace, Turmeric, etc where valuable but not as valuable as Black Pepper. In the15th and 16th century nobody in Europe knew where Black Powder came from. Its source was hidden and controlled by the same Islamic powers who have held today’s world hostage with oil, a Black Pepper cartel. The Dutch, Portuguese, and the Spanish all sent out expeditions to make it to India which at this time was the center of the Spice trade. It was the Portuguese who reached India first and afterwards the Dutch. Once India was reached the search for the source started in earnest. History repeats itself today when The Spice Islands were finally discovered the spice fueled economies of the Middle collapsed. Today with have a similar thing happening with the price of oil.

    • dsinc says

      Oct 10, 2017 at 12:12 am

      The minimum value for property in the UK is a peppercorn..

  27. Ade Fegan says

    Oct 9, 2017 at 7:05 pm

    columbus set sail for america on the same year islam was booted out of spain

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 9, 2017 at 7:30 pm

      Yes–very important to note.

    • Daniel Triplett says

      Oct 9, 2017 at 9:51 pm

      Yes, in honor of God giving them victory over Muslims, Ferdinand and Isabella sought to serve God by advancing Christianity. So, they funded Cristobal Colon’s voyage to spread God’s Word.

  28. Our Guy says

    Oct 9, 2017 at 7:10 pm

    Coming from the same people that thank the gays for AIDS.

  29. Brian Hoff says

    Oct 9, 2017 at 8:31 pm

    The merchants in Europe didnot want to trade with the muslim and pay the extra fee and taxes and cost to the muslim. I play the computer game EU2 as the Ottoman Turk discover america america and the new world

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 9, 2017 at 10:08 pm

      “Brian Hoff”–really, “DefenderofIslam”–has made this ridiculous claim before–that Ottoman Muslims discovered America, but apparently made no further journeys there, and left no records.

      As he notes, he gets his “history” from video games. Just pathetic.

      • JawsV says

        Oct 9, 2017 at 10:45 pm

        Islam = Insanity.

        • Champ says

          Oct 10, 2017 at 3:54 am

          Islam = Insanity.

          ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

          You can say that again!

        • gravenimage says

          Oct 10, 2017 at 9:09 pm

          🙂

        • Champ says

          Oct 10, 2017 at 10:16 pm

          😉

  30. b.a. freeman says

    Oct 9, 2017 at 9:01 pm

    OK, i’ll raise my glass to the child-raping murdering rapist muhammed, because the best nation on earth would not exist had he not begun mass-murdering, raping, and slaving. at the same time, i’ll raise my glass to hitler, since there is no way i would exist had he not decided to murder all jewish people and conquer the world, because there is no way my parents would have met had he not instigated WWII.

    mr. spencer’s post is somewhat facetious, but it illustrates that even out of the deepest sewers of vile human depravity, God can create beauty and redemption. my wife might not always agree that i was a good outcome at times, however!

  31. Raja says

    Oct 9, 2017 at 9:45 pm

    Indeed Islam did help Columbus discover America. Reza Aslan and other Islam apologists have been claiming this with all kinds of lies but Robert Spencer has put it in a truthful way..If Robert Spencer is taken seriously one cannot deny the fact that Islam has been a bully for AGES.. Robert Spencer is wiser.

    God helped open another door when one door was closed by rampaging Islam. One hemisphere of the globe was saved from Islam thanks to Islam and Columbus. God is much wiser than Satan.

    Thank You Robert Spencer for showing Islam in this perspective.

  32. jewdog says

    Oct 9, 2017 at 9:48 pm

    Just as the Renaissance owed so much to the Islamic occupation of Anatolia which forced so many talented Christians to flee to Western Europe.
    Columbus was probably a Spanish Jewish converso (pretend Christian) fleeing the Inquisition of 1492. There’s nothing like religious intolerance to promote discovery and innovation.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 9, 2017 at 10:00 pm

      Jewdog, Christopher Columbus (Cristoforo Colombo) was not Spanish–he was Italian, born in the Republic of Genoa.

      Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain sponsored his voyages of exploration.

      • jewdog says

        Oct 10, 2017 at 9:18 am

        Could be, but there’s pretty reliable research from a Spanish Catholic historian (I forget her name) that shows Columbus wrote personal records in Ladino, the language of Spanish Jews. The timing was too coincidental with the Inquisition. There are other pieces of circumstantial evidence, but who knows, really?

  33. fbijihadidefender says

    Oct 9, 2017 at 10:31 pm

    of course, without Islam, the world would be a better place and America would not be found.

  34. John Forbes says

    Oct 10, 2017 at 4:15 am

    NOT ANOTHER FALSE PREMISE FROM IBRAHIM HOOPER ,C.A.I.R & COMPANY ?

    WHAT IDIOCY IS THIS & WHY IS THIS NONSENSE BEING ENTERTAINED. ????

  35. Harry says

    Oct 10, 2017 at 4:34 am

    What a load of drivel.
    Columbus never set foot in the future USA.

    He did land in the future Venezuela.
    Which he described in glowing terms.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 10, 2017 at 9:16 pm

      Your idea that “America” only refers to the United States is just appallingly ignorant.

  36. Az says

    Oct 10, 2017 at 6:29 am

    Islam tries to insert itself into everything to gain a foothold, as if:

    * Written History started 1400 years ago in the Arabian peninsula.
    *Columbus was thought on sailing by Muslims (no Muslims were ever know for being great navigators, as the Portuguese did all their job of discovering African coast lands).

    In reality, Spanish kings were too busy cleaning up Spain from the Islamic scum, so they couldn’t offer any resources to Columbus, which could have allowed him to discover the Americas by 5-10 years earlier than 1492. That was the real Muslim contribution to the Americas; delaying the discovery.

  37. FYI says

    Oct 10, 2017 at 7:11 am

    The simple truth is that America was discovered when the great prophet muhammed built a steam and camel-dung powered submarine out of wood and mud and landed there in the year 834.The next year muhammed,after writing the complete works of William Shakespeare, invented the goat-powered rocket and travelled to the moon to meet his moon god allah with his bumbling sidekick,jibreel.

    Alright,alright..that is clearly made up:but then so is the fact that mo was “the perfect man”, the koran is “the perfect book” and islam is “the religion of peace”.

    And now remember that anyone who dares say that islam is a religion of peace must suffer the late Ayatollah Khomeni’s famous curse..

    “I SPIT on those who say that islam is a religion of peace”

    {List of people who said that islam is a religion of peace:

    pope francis

    Barack Obama

    Tony Blair

    Angela Merkel

    David Cameron ex uk P.M

    the Dalai Lama…}

    • tim gallagher says

      Oct 10, 2017 at 7:26 pm

      Good, witty comments, FYI. Your inventions about Muhammad writing Shakespeare”s works, going to the moon, etc., are, indeed, no bigger lies than the garbage that Muhammad, the vile, murdering paedophile, was the “perfect” man. How evil is Islam, and how barbaric are the creatures who are adherents of Islam, that they could possibly consider a man as evil as Muhammad, a “perfect” man. Muslims just have a completely upside down morality. They just love evil. Allah has to be Satan if he chooses Muhammad as his chosen one, his prophet, his “perfect” man. To decent, civilised people, Muhammad has to be one of the most evil and imperfect of men. Not someone to try to imitate as Muslims do.

  38. AnneCrocket says

    Oct 10, 2017 at 7:37 am

    I remember reading that Columbus saw the Battle of Granada. That might have been poetic license, but the final conquest in Spain was certainly part of what drove Ferdinand and Isabella to support him.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 10, 2017 at 9:20 pm

      Agreed.

  39. Mark Solheim says

    Oct 10, 2017 at 7:49 am

    This is a load of crap. Not about the Muslims and Islam, but we owe the Discovery of America to Muslims and Islam. Lief Erickson Discovered The North American Continent 500 years before Columbus, and had Settlements here.

    Signed:
    A Proud Descendent

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 10, 2017 at 9:22 pm

      This is true. But the settlements were not permanent, and the discovery of a new continent was not well known in Europe.

      Noting this takes nothing away from the Viking achievement.

  40. Bill D. says

    Oct 10, 2017 at 8:46 am

    Another interesting article on Columbus Day: “Indigenous Peoples’ Day? You Might Want to Reconsider That” http://scienceetcetera.blogspot.com/

    FYI If you scroll down the page, there is a link to a new documentary about Muhammad.

  41. Michael Casmer says

    Oct 10, 2017 at 10:01 am

    Yeah, I read some where that Columbus might have been a secret Jew from writings, and secret symbols he used in letters to his son. But in reality he was a devout Catholic. He stayed in a monastery and read the books in the library where he got the idea of a land to the West. He was a lay member of the Franciscan order and was buried in their habit. There was a push in the 1920’s to have him canonized a saint but it fell through.

  42. Frederick says

    Oct 10, 2017 at 10:23 am

    Interesting research in Michigan shows that the large pure copper deposits of the Upper Peninsula have been mined for over 2000 years. That has been known for a while but now estimates of the amount mined reveals nearly 1000 times more mined than what the native Indians used. So who mined it and where did it all go?

    It’s been suggested it was the copper from Michigan that helped support the Roman Empire. 30-50 ships each summer for a several hundred years could account for the difference. Which might explain the tribes of blond haired, blue eyed Madan Indians on the Missouri that Lewis and Clark met. Smallpox wiped the Madans out by 1810.

  43. Mark A says

    Oct 10, 2017 at 10:57 am

    Good article Robert.

  44. Donald R Laster Jr says

    Oct 10, 2017 at 9:07 pm

    Real history showing that even good can come out of the depravities of Islam.

  45. Jacqueleen says

    Oct 17, 2017 at 4:05 pm

    This article says plenty….and I’m opposed to flattering Islam in any manner, shape or form. This historical account shows how ruthless and violently aggressive Islam, the peaceful religion and the Muslims have been Always warring with surrounding nations…Queen Isabella had the right idea when she evicted every Muslim and banned them from re-entry to save her country. Then, Columbus was more than likely looking for the back door to surprise the Muslim warriors. Another observation is that Islam is not a religion but rather a pretense while engaging in the politics of the day. The obvious intent of the Muslims is to conquer the world….HAVE THEY CHANGED? THE ANSWER IS “NO!” There is no such thing as a peaceful Muslim. Muslims are the same today as they were hundreds of years ago…..Remember, they follow the dictates of the Koran which remains the same….EVICT AND BAN EVERY MUSLIM TO SAUDI ARABIA FOR FINANCING THEM AND TO YEMEN FOR TRAINING THEM…..Let them live in the desert and battle among themselves. Isolation is the only way to deal with Muslims.

    • Donald R Laster Jr says

      Oct 17, 2017 at 5:05 pm

      I concur. Islam is a government – a theocracy – and it has been waging war for over 1400 years.

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