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Title: Saudi Imam: Columbus Sailed to America to Kill all the Muslims
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Published: Jan 30, 2015
Author: Daniel Greenfield
Post Date: 2015-01-30 12:49:58 by redleghunter
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Islamic history is a pretty unique thing. It’s the story of how everyone hates and conspires against Muslims. Saudi Arabia is a totalitarian state. If the authorities found his views unacceptable, he wouldn’t have been able to preach them. This is mainstream stuff. Following are excerpts from a Friday sermon given by Imam Issa Assiri of the Sa’eed bin Jubair Mosque in Jedda, Saudi Arabia: "Dear believers, some notions require correction. For example, what we learned in school about the discovery of America is a lie. According to this story, the Spaniards loved spices, and since there was a shortage of spices in Europe and the price was high, they decided to send a sailor called Columbus westwards, so he would reach India and bring back spices. Only he did not get to India. Instead, he reached a land inhabited by redskins, whom he named “Red Indians.” Some time later, another sailor, called Amerigo, reached the same place. This is why America is called America – after that sailor – as if he discovered it. End of story – a fabrication and a lie, which is as far removed from the truth as possible. What is the truth that they do not want us to know? All that I have just told you is pure nonsense. The truth is that Columbus knew about the “new world” even before he set sail. He also knew that there were Muslims there. He received a personal commission to sail to America from a Crusader queen who hated Islam and the Muslims. She was one of the most prominent Crusader figures in history and she was called Isabella. She harbored deep hatred for Islam. She signed with Muhammad “the Little” the last Muslim king of Andalusia, an agreement in Granada that ended the Muslim presence in Andalusia. That was before this hateful Crusader turned to the American continent, in order to fight the Muslims there. The Muslims were there before Columbus and all the others. While the Imam might seem insane, he’s actually promoting a revisionist form of Islamic Supremacism in which the American Indians and the Australian Aborigines were really Muslims. So was everyone. Which is why they claim that Muslim converts revert to Islam. This allows them to claim that Judaism and Christianity perverted Islam. Conveniently this also allows them to lay claim to America. Because it’s all about Koran and conquest in the end. And naturally he throws in support for Islamic terrorism and killing Christians and Jews.
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#1. To: redleghunter (#0)
But if Isreal made claim to the South West, they would have grounds for the claim: The Los Lunas Inscription America's ancient Indian's called it the "Cliff of the Strange Writings". It has been named Phoenician Rock or the Commandment Stone. It is called today Inscription rock. Located west of Los Lunas, New Mexico at the base of Mystery Mountain (also called Hidden Mountain) this rock has been raising some eyebrows. The strange chiseled characters on the volcanic basalt rock were undecipherable by America's early European settlers and to the "native" Indians. (Hence, the mountain's name - Mystery). The local residents had been made aware, by the Indians, of the unusual inscription as early as the year 1800. Why is this rock causing such excitement? The stone preserves an abbreviated form of the Ten Commandments as written in Exodus 20, which is very exciting, but what makes this stone an enigma is the fact that the writing is clearly semitic in origin. The ancient Hebrew inscriptions were once thought to be a combination of Greek, Hebrew and Phoenician characters but now are clearly seen as a form of Hebrew writing dating to approximately 1000 B.C.! The Greeks "borrowed" from the Phonetic alphabet so the characters would be familiar. The Hebrews and the Phoenicians were neighbors which, in their trading environment, shared the same language and alphabet. The style of the characters is strikingly similar, almost identical, to that used on the Moabite Stone in the days of the Israelite kings Omri and Ahab. The Moab stone was engraved by captive Israelites for the Moabite king, Mescha, as per its own inscription. After examining the Los lunas site geologist, George Morehouse, estimated the placement of this Decalogue inscription up to 3000 years ago, which would, again, date it around 1000 B.C. Just how were historians to explain how a seventy ton boulder with Hebrew inscription appeared on this mountain landscape in North America around 1000 B.C.? Over two thousand years before Columbus "discovered" America there were people of semitic origin in New Mexico worshipping the God of Israel. How can this possibly be reconciled with known history? It is seemingly apparent that the financial backing to launch a Hebrew-Phoenician voyage of world exploration could have readily occurred during the reign of King Solomon of Israel. Solomon worshipped the true God of Israel and had the means to fund explorative voyages to other lands. With Solomon's main port being located on the Red Sea it would be difficult to explain how his fleet would have entered America through the Atlantic drainage. ( Reference note:1Kings 9:26 And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom.27 And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.) Tarshish , however, had access to the Atlantic. The reign of Solomon was enveloping the entire world. Israel's close neighbor, Phonecia, and their expert navigators were working with the servants of Solomon from both countries ports. The ships of Tarshish sailed extremely long voyages to bring back all kinds of raw materials and items (copper & other ores, flora & fauna samples, "exotic" animals, etc.). ( Reference note:2Ch 9:21 For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: every three years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.) It would help explain the need of three year journeys if the seamen had to cross the ocean to come to these far off isles in America. The fact that the trading ships of Phoenicia did have docks in ancient America can be proved from inscriptions they left behind. ( See Dr. Barry Fell's book America B.C. and also reading Steven M. Collins The "Lost" Ten Tribes of Israel...Found! is highly recommended) The Los Lunas site is located along the Puerco River which is tributary of the Rio Grande River. The Rio Grande is definitely in the Atlantic drainage. It would have been entirely possible for the Hebrew-Phonecian sailors to access the area of the stone. We must realize that our history was written by the Greeks (and Romans) and is told entirely from their self-glorifying viewpoint which sometimes tends to omit other nations contributions to the world. Columbus didn't discover America. How is it that there were people (some of semitic features) already living in America for centuries before Columbus? Ancient colonists and prospectors? Why is it that some of the words and alphabet characters of these ancients also resemble Hebrew or Ibunic-Phoenician? How is it that some of the same pagan gods and symbols were worshipped on both ends of the earth simultaneously? And is there any other explanation why the commandments of the God of Israel would be written in the middle of the North American continent in Hebrew characters? The inscription has been translated by the Epigraphic Society as follows: I (am) Jehovah [the Eternal] Eloah [your God] who brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim [Mizraim or the two Egypts] out of the house of bondages. You shall not have other [foreign] gods in place of (me). You shall not make for yourself molded (or carved) idols [graven images]. You shall not lift up your voice to connect the name of Jehovah in hate. Remember you (the) Sabbath to make it holy. Honor your father and your mother to make long your existence upon the land which Jehovah Eloah [the Eternal your God] gave to you. You shall not murder. You shall not commit adultery (or idolatry). You shall not steal (or deceive). You shall not bear witness against your neighbor, testimony for a bribe. You shall not covet (the) wife of your neighbor and all which belongs to your neighbor. The Los Lunas Commandment Stone is one of several proofs that exist in America that the ancients of Israel, including both the worshippers of the false gods such as Baal and of the True Eternal God, walked on this continent long before Columbus or any of the 14th century European explorers. It is also another proof that biblical history is accurate. In the past, when a "new" world kingdom came into power they had the option of re-writing how their history and the history of those in subjection to them would be remembered. It was not uncommon to strike out the good things acheived by a former power that was now in subjection or exile. Or even to ascribe the glory of the former powers conquests to themselves. The bible, and the history of Israel that it contains, is refreshingly honest in its history of battles won and lost. It does not cover up Israel's mistakes or captivities. God's word is truth. History's word is questionable. It is obvious that the writers of world history knew of these ancient travellers but neglected to tell the story of history from a neutral standpoint. Reality to each of us is what we are taught. Truth is what is absolute, beyond the perception of men and their "reality". History has some explaining to do. This is a witness of our faith as in Joshua 24:27 : And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness unto us; for it hath heard all the words of the LORD which he spake unto us: it shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest ye deny your God.
That stone just happened to be discovered by Frank Hibben, long suspected of producing archaeological frauds. Archaeology had very bad problems with fraud prior to the last 40 years. Lots of people made fraudulent artifacts, sometimes with the intent to create a tourist attraction or to be able to sell it to a museum or to a circus. As the links indicate, these frauds have been a part of American history since colonial times, with Cotton Mather himself writing about the Dighton Rock in 1690. There is a certain American longing for a storied past that reaches back to the Stone Age in the Americas. Unfortunately, very little exists so fraud artists make some up to satisfy that curiosity and hunger for ancient "stuff" in the Americas. The Mormon religion had a substantial component of phony ancient tribes here in the Americas who were supposedly visited by Jesus after His resurrection. What I find most interesting is how enduring the appeal of ancient "stuff" is over the centuries to a substantial slice of the American public. In Europe and Asia, you have a lot more artifacts and impressive sites going back to the stone age. In the Americas, you have the Aztecs and the Mayans, relatively modern civilizations that didn't survive more than a few centuries before breaking down into barbarism, often as a result of creating a population to large to feed. But there are people who want to believe there is much more to it and there has been a certain public hunger for these supposedly ancient things for over 300 years.
The Indians in the area have said that it has been there as long as they, that tribe, have been there, that predates the 1800's by a long, long time, the shortest time it has been dated is 500 years, that predates all of the fraud claims.
Do they have any records to support this claim or is it just a local tourist attraction to them? I don't believe in "Mormon archaeology", not even when it's peddled by non-Mormons.
That's the amazing thing, not only is it not a tourist attraction, it is literally a secret. When my wife and I went looking for it, all of the locals we asked had never heard of it. You would think there would be a huge push to get Israeli and Jewish tourist from every where to come and see it. Not so, when I emailed the major, he said he didn't know but referred me to the librarian, who had heard of it and knew there was a fee, imposed by the state, to go see it, but was no where as helpful in finding it as the man at the private dumb near the gate, on private property, that one has to go thru to get to it. On the top of the mount, above the ten commandments is another large outcropping with one word on it "Yahweh". No, this is no hoax, for the proof is how hard the secular world is trying to both ignore it and come up with hoax stories about it, but the fact remains that one of the most highly regarded guys, who ages things by rain fall, said this was 3,000 years old. Back to the very time of King Solomon, who sent out ships that three years to return. (1 Kings 10:23).
Maybe I jumped the gun on blaming the Mormons. No, I do not take Los Lunas seriously.
One of the tenets of Mormonism is that they can lie if it furthers mormonism.
#16. To: BobCeleste (#15)
Muslims can. I've never read the same about Mormons.
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#7. To: BobCeleste, redleghunter (#1)
The Los Lunas Decalogue Stone is often grouped with the Kensington Runestone, Dighton Rock, and the Newport Tower as examples of American landmarks with disputed provenances. Other disputed American Hebrew inscriptions include the Smithsonian Institution's Bat Creek Inscription and the Newark Ohio Decalogue Stone, Keystone, and Johnson-Bradner Stone.
#9. To: TooConservative (#7)
#10. To: BobCeleste (#9)
The Indians in the area have said that it has been there as long as they, that tribe, have been there, that predates the 1800's by a long, long time, the shortest time it has been dated is 500 years, that predates all of the fraud claims.
#11. To: TooConservative (#10)
Do they have any records to support this claim or is it just a local tourist attraction to them?
#13. To: BobCeleste (#11)
How fake does it have to be for Mormon archaeologists to reject it? Nevertheless, the Mormons examined the stone in the 1950’s to see if it was theirs. They sent out the Archaeological Society of Brigham Young University from Provo, Utah. The Mormon team critically examined the stone and in 1954 published an article which concluded the inscription was quite recent because of the lack of patina in the letters. Consequently, they dismissed it altogether. I had one person email me who was interested in the Los Lunas Mystery Stone. He stated that he was Mormon & had been so all of his life. He had never heard of the stone within the Mormon community and was intrigued by those claiming that it was of Mormon influence. He personally visited the site & concluded that this indeed had nothing to do with the Mormons- independently verifying the 1950’s expedition!
#15. To: TooConservative (#13)
Replies to Comment # 15. One of the tenets of Mormonism is that they can lie if it furthers mormonism.
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