{"id":1216,"date":"2014-11-18T14:00:22","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T19:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/?p=1216"},"modified":"2014-11-17T23:22:11","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T04:22:11","slug":"muslims-discovered-the-americas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/2014\/11\/muslims-discovered-the-americas\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslims discovered the Americas!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/2014\/11\/17\/muslims-discovered-america\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/33.media.tumblr.com\/4635586e4f138e514b0aafc119430275\/tumblr_nf7w2gWxyY1qcnn8do1_500.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So it says Turkey&#8217;s <s>dictator<\/s> president <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-30067490\">Recep Tayyip Erdogan<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><!--more-->Muslims discovered the Americas more than three centuries before <strong>Christopher Columbus<\/strong>, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Erdogan also said &#8220;Muslim sailors arrived in America in 1178&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He said he was willing to build a mosque at the site Columbus identified.<\/p>\n<p>The Turkish president &#8211; whose AK Party is rooted in political Islam &#8211; <strong>gave no further evidence to back up his theory<\/strong>, instead stating: &#8220;Contacts between Latin America and Islam date back to the 12th Century.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Go figure!<\/p>\n<p>(via <em><a href=\"http:\/\/diario-de-un-ateo.blogspot.com\/2014\/11\/los-indios-americanos-eran-musulmanes.html\">Diario de un ateo<\/a><\/em> | Image: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/gulsenozcan\/9636941047\/\">G.OZCAN<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/photopin.com\">photopin<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.0\/\">cc<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it says Turkey&#8217;s dictator president Recep Tayyip Erdogan:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[291],"tags":[35,110,355,353,354],"class_list":["post-1216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skepticism-and-science","tag-history","tag-islam","tag-recep-tayyip-erdogan","tag-revisionism","tag-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}