We can have a talk with my Cuban brother here.… A mosque would suit well on that hill today, if they allow it.”Īny serious historian of the Americas, including representatives of North American indigenous groups, cannot endorse Erdogan’s speech. Indeed, in Columbus’ diaries there is a reference to a mosque on a hill near the sea shore. On the closing day of the summit, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan gave a televised speech, where he told the assembled delegates that, “The introduction of Islam into the American continent dates back to the 12th century.”Īccording to Erdogan, “314 years before Columbus, in 1178, Muslim sailors reached the American continent. Last month, the Turkish government hosted a group of Latin American Muslim leaders at a summit in Istanbul. If Erdogan can persuade enough Muslims that they discovered and settled America, then any kind of Islam-inspired violence or terror carried out in North or South America is simply a form of grass roots activism designed to reclaim lost territory for Islam’. ‘According to interpreters of sharia, any land that was once settled by Muslims must be reclaimed and returned to Muslim sovereignty, soon and by force.
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