On Columbus Day, remember: We owe the discovery of America to Islam and Muslims

From Robert Spencer:

Without Islam, the United States would not exist. 

That’s right: without Islam, the United States as we know it would not exist. No, Reza Aslan has not knocked me over the head with a rock and taken over the writing of Jihad Watch, using my name. 

It’s absolutely true: if it weren’t for Islam and Muslims, the United States would not exist today. 

Every schoolchild knows, or used to know before public school curricula became far too concerned with teaching microaggressions and diversity to bother with marginalia such as history, that in 1492 Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue and discovered America. 

Why did he sail the ocean blue? Because he was searching for a new, westward sea route to Asia. 

Why was he searching for a new, westward sea route to Asia? Because the fall of Constantinople to the Muslims on May 29, 1453 closed the trade routes to the East. 

This was devastating for European tradesmen, who had until then since time immemorial had taken the land route through Constantinople and Anatolia to travel to India and trade for silk, spices and other goods. 

But when the Muslims conquered Constantinople, these tradesmen would have been taking their lives into their hands if they traveled by these ancient routes. 

As non-Muslims in Muslim countries, they would have been subject to being taken hostage, or enslaved, or forcibly converted to Islam, or killed outright. 

Either there was going to be no more European trade with India, or a new route had to be found.

GO READ THE WHOLE THING.

AND THEN THERE'S THIS:

 In 1453 Ottoman Turks took control of Constantinople ceasing trade between Europe and Asia.

By 1492 Spain was closing the period in it's history identified as "The Reconquista", ending the 780 year period of Islamic conquest of the Iberian Peninsula

...the same year Columbus was finally granted permission to seek an
alternate route for trade with the East.
Given the influence of Islam in the region, convincing the royals this
venture was possible was an uphill battle.
Perhaps hundreds of years of stifling Islamic scientific influence is where
the 'earth is flat' presumption emmanated...
WikiIslam: Flat Earth and the Qur'an
The words used to describe the shape of the earth in the quran are :

مدهاmaddaha

سطحها stahaha

فرشها farshaha

دحها dahaha

بسطها bastaha

All are synonyms for flat in Arabic.

https://i.imgur.com/g9fjZUd.jpg
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Heaven forbid that people wake up to recognize the detriment of centuries of Islamic hegemony by recognizing the 780 year Islamic colonization of Iberia resulting in the Reconquista and necessity for alternate trade route which ultimately led to the discovery the Americas and anchoring Judeo-Christianity in the West as a barrier against further Islamic hegemony.