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USA: Discovery Of 9th Century Quranic Manuscripts Predate Columbus Travels By Five Centuries
2014-12-28
[IraqiNews.com] For centuries it was believed that Christopher Columbus was the first man from the Oldcontinent to cross the Atlantic to the New World, but new evidence from a research team from the University of Rhode Islandsuggests Moslem seafarers might just be the first people to have settled on the shores of America, a possibility that could rewrite history as we know it.
Wherever Islam has conquered belongs to Dar al Islam forever, even if the shipwrecked crew died without leaving so much as a ripple on history? Molon labe, doods.
The discovery completely took the researchers by surprise admits professor Evan Yuriesco, in charge of the research team.
Do you smell a hoax? I do.
Apparently it is. But Turkey's President Erdogan recently talked about Muslims colonizing North America first, and now here is the "proof" reported by the Iraqi News. How will the gullible and ignorant respond?
?We were expecting to find traces of prehistoric Native American settlements, as we have in the area for the past decades. We were not prepared to find 9th century clay pots containing ancient manuscripts written in the Arabic language? he explains.
Posted by:trailing wife

#11  Medieval.
Posted by: KBK   2014-12-28 22:09  

#10  Maybe it was a bit warmer then?

Nah, there was no Mideval Warming. That's settled.
Posted by: KBK   2014-12-28 22:06  

#9  I love that image of the Chinese voyages that Alistaire Elmailing8877 posted. As if they sailed through the arctic.

I'd seen claims the Chinese made it to the west Coast of Latin America and there is evidence they made it to Africa when the fleet was recalled, but the arctic? Might as well claim they found the Northwest Passage as well.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2014-12-28 19:55  

#8  Given that it's Rhode Island, more likely it was the 9th Century version of the Mob.
Posted by: Pappy   2014-12-28 14:32  

#7  the indigenous wymyn killed them
Posted by: Frank G   2014-12-28 13:42  

#6  So what happened to these Muslims---Vikings killed them?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2014-12-28 13:32  

#5  And from the "Other Points of View Department"...

Posted by: Alistaire Elmailing8877   2014-12-28 10:14  

#4  WNDR assumes however all responsibility for the satirical nature of its articles and for the fictional nature of their content. All characters appearing in the articles in this website – even those based on real people – are entirely fictional and any resemblance between them and any persons, living, dead, or undead is purely a miracle.
Posted by: Pappy   2014-12-28 10:09  

#3  Does the anonymous coward have a point?
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2014-12-28 08:57  

#2   the term "Dar al-Islam” or the "territory of Islam” and "dar al-harb” or "territory of war” and "Dar al-ahd” or "territory of pact/treaty” are jurisprudence terms that did not occur in Quran and authentic sunnah. This fact was mentioned in the book Bayan Lel-nas (Statement for the People) published by Al-Azhar: "dividing countries into dar kufr, or territory of infidelity and dar Islam or territory of Islam is an issue of ijtihad or personal effort based on the reality situation at the time of the mujtahid scholars that involves no evidence from the Quran or sunnah”. This proves that the scholars of fiqh did not agree over these three terms.
Posted by: Ulique Pelosi8805   2014-12-28 07:28  

#1  The only thing coming from Turkey is sh!t.
Posted by: newc   2014-12-28 00:37  

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