Wednesday, November 26, 2014
Truth = SEXISM! RACISM! HOMOPHOBIA! as usual.
Erdogan has spoken some obvious truth at an international meeting, and the usual monsters are OUTRAGED as usual.
You cannot make women and men equal; this is against nature. You cannot subject a pregnant woman to the same working conditions as a man. You cannot make a mother who has to breastfeed her child equal to a man. You cannot make women do everything men do like the communist regimes did… This is against her delicate nature. ... Feminists don’t accept the concept of motherhood, but those who do understand are enough for us. We'll continue down this path with them.Simple truth, expressed rather mildly and moderately. Enough to throw Satan into her usual hissyfit. = = = = = Erdogan is the sanest major leader in the world, but not everything he says is true. His recent comment about Columbus sighting a mosque in Cuba is simply wrong. Apparently Columbus described a hill that resembled a mosque, not an actual mosque. Still, it's an interesting question. Given the fact that America was always part of the worldwide wanderings of various tribes, it's possible that some of the wanderers had brought Islam from Central Asia. Best candidate would be the Volga Tatars, who converted to Islam around 900 AD. During the warm period when the Danes were settling Greenland, the Tatars had a major trading empire covering a large segment of Siberia. The Tatars (or other vectors) would have been northern people, so they probably wouldn't have been anywhere near the Caribbean when Columbus was exploring. Did they leave any artifacts? We haven't found any, but then we weren't looking. In history as in biology, we tend to ignore or discard found objects unless we know what we're looking for. There's a tantalizing similarity between some Eskimo decorations and some Tatar decorations, but that doesn't prove anything without a 'chain of evidence.'
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