MUSLIMS IN CUBA, WELCOME TO FIDEL MOHAMMED FROM PROF
HONORARY TURKISH PRESIDENT
If Barack Obama ever said that it was not Columbus who
“discovered” America but Africans who were here three centuries before, because
of coprolites of Indians living in Virginia reveal African agricultural
samples, he would be even less popular than he is now! Worse still, if he said,
at the site where they found the coprolites, they would build an African
Monument to celebrate this great “discovery” First of all, USA is a participatory
democracy with checks and balances and a President cannot build a palace for
himself costing billions (Like the Turkish President is doing at the moment) or
propose to build a monument on his own accord, as it has to be approved by the
people or those representing them! (The Turkish president offered to build a
mosque where Columbus described a “mosque”! but Cuban leaders being far better
educated and worldly rejected the offer).
(these re constructed TAINO indian huts, were they the "Mosques" in question?)
The fact that America was named after a Florentine merchant,
make the Catholics proud that they “found” America?
Why don't the Muslims themselves recognize the
ridiculousness of this claim? Instead now, after the not so brilliant
announcement by the Turkish President, you would hear President of Palestinian
Authority or Hamas or Hezbollah demanding money from America because it was
they who discovered the land and now occupied by Americans! You don't think it
plausible? In Australia, a few years back, an Imam claimed that Australian was
truly a Muslim land and that they had to drive out all the infidels who
occupied it! Fortunately the Australian Government drove out that Imam back to
his native Egypt!
Americans criticize other Americans when they make mistakes
or do outrageous things, Jews do the same but not the Muslims. When are they
going to stand up en masse to condemn the atrocities being done in the name of
Islam? Just saying that only 10 per cent of the Muslims are radicals hold no
water, only 10 per cent of the Germans were Nazis but look at the destruction
they wrought!
Having lost their golden era and empire as far back as 1492,
the Muslims dreamt of that glory, with a brief peak of the Ottoman Empire that
dissolved in 1919, they long for that glory. That glory can be had only by
mastering the sciences and trade and economy and not by beheadings.
But who was Amerigo Vespucci? Millions of people from Alaska
to Tierra del Fuego call themselves Americans, in remembrance of Amerigo but
who was he?
Vespucci,
a Florentine merchant, employed by Medicis to look after outfitting Colon’s
voyages, finally outfitted his own voyage in quest of the passage to the Indian
subcontinent that had eluded Columbus. He sailed in 1499 -- seven years after
Columbus first landed in the West Indies. Vespucci made two voyages between
1499 and 1502 and possibly a third one in 1503.
During
his first voyage he explored the northern coast of South America to well beyond
the mouth of the Amazon. He gave names like "Gulf of the Ganges," and
other Asian place-names he knew about, to the things he saw. He also made
significant improvements in navigational techniques. During this trip he
predicted the earth's circumference to within 50 miles.
But
the big breakthrough came on Vespucci's second trip. And that was the
realization that what he was looking at was not India at all, but an entirely
new continent. He verified the fact by following the coast of South America
down to within 400 miles of Tierra del Fuego. Columbus found the new world, but
Vespucci was the man who recognized that it was a new world.
And
who wrote Vespucci's Christian name on the maps? The King of Spain? Our
founding fathers? Vespucci himself? No -- it was none of these. An obscure
German clergyman and amateur geographer named Waldseemuller gave us our name.
Waldseemuller was a member of a little literary club that published an
introduction to cosmology in 1507. In it he wrote of the new land mass that
Vespucci had explored:
I see no reason why
anyone should justly object to calling this part ... America, after Amerigo
[Vespucci], its discoverer, and a man of great ability. ( from UH, Texas)
So
Germans, Florentines all can take credit, if they wish, for the existence of
America and American Continent.
Beautiful Baracoa, on the eastern most part of Cuba, where Christopher Columbus said to have landed (even though another spot in Cuba also claim that distinction). Colon does mention this hilltop. Is this the mosque, the Honorable President of Turkey referring to?
