Ibrahim: Columbus Didn't Sail for 'Spices'— He Sailed to Crush Barbaric Islam

 

[Forward from Doug:  The Left tries to 'whitewash' the horrible and murderous history of Islam that continues today. This video is immensely important to understand the still worldwide scourge of Islam.]

Video dates from May 2025. Here’s the Transcript:

A few days ago on April 27, Donald Trump said, quote, “I am bringing Columbus Day back from the ashes. The Democrats did everything possible to destroy Christopher Columbus, his reputation, and all of the Italians that love him so much. They tore down his statues and put up nothing but woke, or even worse, nothing at all.” Well, you’ll be happy to know Christopher is going to make a major comeback. I am hereby reinstating Columbus Day under the same rules, dates, and locations as it has had for all of the many decades before.

Trump is referring to the fact Columbus Day that for years now, Columbus Day, also increasingly known as Indigenous People’s Day, has been condemned as a day when Americans celebrate “the genocidal actions of an Italian psychopath, and racist to boot, who savagely targeted the peaceful Pocahontas-like natives of America.”

Trump’s point that the Democrats did everything possible to destroy Christopher Columbus is especially validated by none other than his 2024 Democratic presidential candidate and competitor Kamala Harris. Not only is Kamala Harris on record affirming that she wants to officially cancel Columbus Day and replace it with Indigenous People Day.

But in 2021 as vice president, she condemned America’s shameful past in the context of Columbus. She said, quote, “Since 1934, every October, the United States has recognized the voyage of the European explorers who first landed on the shores of the Americas. Those explorers ushered in a wave of devastation for tribal nations, perpetrating violence, stealing land, and spreading disease. We must not shy away from this shameful past, and we must shed light on it and do everything we can to address the impact of the past on native communities today.”

So good for Trump for caring about and wanting to reinstate Columbus. Even better, however, would be if we took this occasion to remember why Columbus sailed west in the first place. Although the fake history we were all taught in school claims Columbus and other Europeans sailed west for spices or to prove the world was round, the reality is that they all did so first and foremost to circumnavigate and fight Muslims.

When Columbus was born, the then more than 800 year-old war with Islam, or rather defense against jihad, was at an all-time high. In 1453, when Columbus was but 2 years old, the Turks finally sacked Constantinople. An atrocity laid an event that rocked Christendom to its core. Over the following years, Muslims continued making inroads deep into the Balkans, leaving much death and destruction in their wake, with millions of Slavs enslaved. Yes, the two words Slavs and slaves are etmologically connected for this very reason.

In 1480, when Columbus was 29, the Turks even managed to invade his native Italy. In the city of Atronto, they ritually beheaded 800 Italians and saw the local archbishop in half for refusing to recant Christianity and embrace Islam. Their skulls are still housed invisible to see at the Cathedral of Toronto.

It was in this backdrop that Spain’s monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella themselves avowed crusaders especially the queen who concluded the centuries long reconquista of Spain by liberating Granada from Islam in 1492 took Columbus The Crusade against Islam into their service. They funded his ambitious voyage in an effort to launch in the words of historian Lewis Bertrand quote a final and definite crusade against Islam by way of the Indies which culminated of course in the incidental founding of the new world.

Many Europeans were convinced that if they could only reach the peoples east of Islam, who if not Christian, were at least not as yet infected by the Muhammadan plague, to quote Nicholas the 5th, who was Pope during Columbus’ youth. Together they could crush Islam

The plan was centuries old and connected to the legend of Prester John, a supposedly great Christian monarch reigning in the east who would one day march westward and avenge Christendom by destroying Islam. All this comes out in Columbus’s own letters. In one, he refers to Ferdinand and Isabella as quote “enemies of the wretched sect of Muhammad.”

In another written to the monarchical couple after he reached the new world, Columbus mentions trying “to raise an army for quote the war and conquest of Jerusalem” unquote.

That his voyage is centered on The War for Jerusalem liberating Jerusalem from Islam is further evident in the title of one 2011 book, Columbus and the quest for Jerusalem. Nor were Spain and Columbus the first to implement the strategy.

Once Portugal was cleared of Islam as early as 1249, its military orders launched into Muslim Africa. According to historian George Grant, the great and overriding motivation behind Prince Henry the Navigator’s explosive energy and expansive intellect was the simple desire to take the cross, to carry the crusading sword over to Africa, and thus to open a new chapter in Christrysendom’s holy war against Islam.

Prince Henry launched all those discovery voyages because he quote “sought to know if there were in those parts any Christian princes who would aid him against the enemies of the faith’” wrote a contemporary. By the way, do all Fear of Islam

these inconvenient facts behind the founding of the new world make Columbus, Ferdinand, Isabella, Prince Henry, indeed the whole of Christendom all Islamophobes, as those few modern-day critics who bother mentioning the true motivation of Columbus’s voyage allege.

For example, in an LA Times op-ed, Yale historian Alan Mikyel or Mikyle wrote, quote, “A primary force behind Columbus’s Atlantic crossings was a fear and hatred of Islam. This shaped how white Europeans engaged with the new world and its native peoples for centuries and how today’s Americans understand the world.”

Columbus was born into Europe’s anti-Islamic mindset in 1451. While much of this is true, Mikyle does not bother explaining why there was such a fear and hatred of Islam or why Europe had an anti-Islamic mindset in the first place. Rather, white Europeans were just unenlightened bigots, racists in contemporary of infinitely overdone parlance. But therein lay the irony.

Yes, Columbus and Europeans were Islamophobes, but not in the way that word is used today. While the Greek word phobos has always meant fear, its usage today implies irrational fear. However, considering that for nearly a thousand years before Columbus, Islam had repeatedly attacked Christendom to the point of swallowing up threequarters of its original territory, including for centuries Spain.

That Islam’s latest iteration in the guise of the Ottoman Turks was during Columbus’ lifetime devastating the Balkans and Mediterranean, slaughtering and enslaving any European who dare travel east through their domains. And considering that even centuries after Columbus, Islam was still terrorizing the West, marching into Vienna with 200,000 jihadists in 1683 and even provoking America into its first war as a nation around the year 1800 [Doug here: Thomas Jefferson’s war on the marauding Islamic pirates along the North African mediterranean.]

The very suggestion that Western fears of Islam were or are irrational is itself the height of irrationalism.

At any rate and in short, let’s not just receelebrate Columbus Day, but let’s also remember and learn from the events that gave rise to it.