Y’know it’s one thing when Turkey’s President Erdogan brutalizes his own citizens, acts dictatorially and aids ISIS while refusing Iraqi refugees, but now they’ve gone too far and insulted Native Americans by saying who REALLY discovered the New World!
You probably guessed it – he said it was the Muslims!
Muslims discovered the Americas more than three centuries before Christopher Columbus, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said.
He made the claim during a conference of Latin American Muslim leaders in Istanbul, pointing to a diary entry in which Columbus mentioned a mosque on a hill in Cuba.
Mr Erdogan also said “Muslim sailors arrived in America in 1178”.
He said he was willing to build a mosque at the site Columbus identified.
The Turkish president – whose AK Party is rooted in political Islam – gave no further evidence to back up his theory, instead stating: “Contacts between Latin America and Islam date back to the 12th Century.”
He based this on a historian that cited a text from Columbus comparing a physical attribute of land in the New World as appearing like a mosque, but most other historians say it was metaphorical.
Geez what’s next, are they gonna establish a football team in Istanbul and call them the Redskins?! For shame, Erdogan!