Peter Bruells wrote:
> Franz writes:
>
> > what if the arabs discovered the new world before Columbus?
>
> That would require Arabs being interested in open sea sailing. While
> they could certainly hold themselves in the Mediterrean for a long
> time, I don't think they had much business west of Gibraltar.
>
> > me think we today, in europe, would all speak and write arab
>
> Actually,it would be the other way around: *If* the arabs had stayed
> in Spain or had otherwise been sucessfull in islamizing Europe, "they"
> (or more probably: European moslems) would have discovered America.
>
>
> However, I believe that Islamisation of Europeans would ultimatively
> lead to a schism between Arab Islam and European Islam, with the
> latter keeping ties to Christianism, wine and pork.
What is Christianism??
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