Codebreaker@bigsecret.com writes:
> 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??
Something similar to Mohammedean. |
