re: #60 freetoken

Sigh…

Muslims ‘discovered Americas 300 years before Columbus’

People claim all sorts of things, often to make up for their own shortcomings and insecurities.

The only non-Northeast Asians (ancestors of Native Americans) who made it the (sub-arctic) Americas, for which evidence exists, are:

1) Norse, who briefly had an outpost on the extreme east side of Canada and then pulled back to Iceland;
2) possibly Pacific Islanders who rafted to Peru shortly before European contact, but the evidence is ambiguous.

He’s not really interested in science. Erdogan is sending a message that he regards the Muslim world as superior to the West.