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The Case for Jihad

"[Fellow Muslims], 314 years before Columbus, in 1178, Muslim sailors reached the American continent. Indeed, in Columbus' diaries there is a reference to a mosque on a hill near the seashore. We can have a talk with my Cuban brother here... A mosque would suit well on that hill today, if they allow it."
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan - speaking before Latin American Muslim leaders

"Dr. Barry Fell (Harvard University) introduced in his book 'Saga-America' 1980 solid scientific evidence supporting the arrival, centuries before Columbus, of Muslims from North and West Africa ... Engraved on rocks in the arid western U.S., he found texts, diagrams and charts representing the last surviving fragments of what was once a system of schools ... the language of instruction was North African Arabic written with old Kufic Arabic scripts ... the descendants of the Muslim visitors of North America are members of the present Iroquois, Algonquin, Anasazi, Hohokam and Olmec native people."
Youssef Mroueh, 1996: "Precolumbian Muslims in the Americas; the Preparatory Committee for International Festivals to celebrate the millennium of the Muslims arrival to the Americas (996-1996)."

telegraph.co.uk Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stands inside the new Ak Saray presidential palace

Islamists tend to be extraordinarily defensive about the lack of civilizational, technical, scientific, social and educational progress of Islam. Modern Islam, in any event, where the nose-to-the-grindstone effort is not toward achievement in those fields, but grindingly focused on piety, the sacramental duties inherent in being a Muslim, with its five-times-daily prayer ritual and its unendingly stifling focus on Islam throughout all aspects of daily life.

Wishful thinking that compels imperialist autocrats like Turkey's Erdogan to claim precedence in all matters of foundational existence stumble against historical reality. The Hohokam and Olmec native people dated from around 2000BCE, long before Islam came into existence. Islamists counter this logic with logic of their own; that Islam is timeless and existed long before Prophet Mohammad delivered glad tidings of its existence.

Details, details; they are of the devil's making.

The ignorance and bland stupidity of total immersion in the glory of Islamic conquest breeds resentment that many of the lands conquered in Europe had a Christian revival that conquered Islam, returning those countries to their previous status and leading them to an eventual enlightenment which itself led to advances in all critical indices of knowledge and technological advancement, along with advancement in the social-religious spheres.

After Turkey's flirtation with Germany in the First World War and the defeat of the Ottoman Empire, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk -- disgusted with the stifling stultification of Islamism interfering with social and economic progress on every scale of human attainment -- took power to orchestrate the death of the caliphate. He ushered in a change in the Turkish alphabet, rousted Persian and Arabic vocabulary from the Turkish language, made it illegal for women to be veiled and men to be turbaned.

Better yet, he encouraged the study of science and engineering and founded universities. He moved Turkey in friendly tandem with Europe, emulating European advances to bring Turkey into the modern era, relinquishing the past as outmoded and unuseful. Mr. Erdogan, after almost a century of Turkey as a modern Republic, has begun the reversal of all that Ataturk established, returning the country firmly to Islamism.

Turkish historians were busy on the other hand, using Turkish anthropological studies based on pioneering 'studies' by Nazi Germany to reflect on the superiority of Turks as a master race (though not considered so by German fascists) in Asia Minor. Turks were held to be the authentic progenitors of civilizational rise in the pre-Islamic Middle East. Non-Turks were by definition subservient and lesser mortals, and treated as such.

And so, Turks have the authority to claim that Muslims discovered America. Muslims languish in misery over their loss of Andalusia, pining for that time when Europe will once again be Islamic and under Sharia law. And Mr. Erdogan has simply extended the territory meant to represent another conquest target; North and South America. Turkey is such a wonderfully useful member of NATO, and it shouldn't be long before it is looked up to as the major mover-and-shaker in any world organization.

Labels: Archaeology, Heritage, Islamism, Turkey

posted by Pieface @ Tuesday, December 02, 2014