Thursday, December 4, 2014

So maybe Muslim explorers invented rum?

“President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has heralded a new curriculum for schools, after complaining that Turkish students know foreign figures like Albert Einstein but not Muslim and Turkish ones.

“Last month, Erdoğan instructed Turkey’s educational institutions to adopt a policy of highlighting the contribution of Islam to global science and arts, including ‘the discovery of the American continent by Muslim sailors some 300 years before Columbus.’”

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkish-students-know-einstein-but-not-muslim-scholars-erdogan-complains.aspx?pageID=238&nID=75098&NewsCatID=338

Link at gatesofvienna.net.

(And Russians invented baseball.)

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