Palestinian Cleric Abu Taqi Al-Din Al-Safafi in Al-Aqsa Mosque Address: Columbus Stole the Manuscripts of Islamic Scholars | MEMRI

In an address delivered at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, Palestinian cleric Sheikh Abu Taqi Al-Din Al-Safafi said that Islamic scholars had preceded the West in great scientific achievements and that the 16th-century Ottoman seafarer Piri Reis had drawn a map that „astonished NASA“ and had revealed that he had discovered the Americas prior to Columbus. Columbus, according to Sheikh Al-Safafi, had „stolen the manuscripts of the Muslim scholars,“ . He further said that the West „are nothing but so-called ‚t…