{UAH} George and History profs. Remember the "columbus monkey" story?

Well I got this extract

A devout Muslim himself, Erdogan often courts controversy with divisive public comments. He raised  a few eyebrows this month by declaring that Muslims had discovered the Americas before Christopher Columbus.

'It is alleged that the American continent was discovered by Columbus in 1492,' he said. 'In fact, Muslim sailors reached the American continent 314 years before Columbus, in 1178.'

'In his memoirs, Christopher Columbus mentions the existence of a mosque atop a hill on the coast of Cuba,' Erdogan said, adding that he'd like to see a mosque built on the hilltop today.

Scholars have disputed the claim in Columbus' writings, saying there is no archaeological evidence of Muslims having lived in the Americas before Columbus, an Italian, made his expedition in 1492 on behalf of the Spanish crown.

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