Why Muslims are under rated.

[Sami_23]

Like I promised, I was going to create a thread that has never been discussed here (I haven't searched but it probably hasn't since most threads here are about God/truth or lies or morals of the Quran). This thread is more about History. That's right, I'm talking about America. Did you know Muslims actually discovered America or influenced Columbus and Amerigo (the other explorer)?

Did you also know that America was most likely named after Richard ap Meryk (Amerike or Ameryk), the 15th-century English merchant who sponsored John Cabot's expedition to Newfoundland and whose surname appeared on early maps? Granted, it's not widely accepted, being regarded as revisionism, but new lands were generally given the surname of their discoverer or the patron of the expedition; e.g. the Cook Islands, Tasmania (named after Dutch explorer Abel Tasman - prior to that it was called Van Diemen's Land, named in honour of Anthony van Diemen, the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies and Tasman's sponsor) and others. Given this tradition, there seems much more credence in America being named in honour of Ameryk than the more famous Amerigo Vespucci, which ought to have resulted in the name Vespuccia or similar for the new continent.

But you're talking history. Please, carry on.

I know this...

What do you have say about Cheng He? A Chinese Muslim who travelled the world and actually visited pre-columbus america. There is a Chinese document known as Sung document records the voyage of Muslim sailors to a land called as Mu-Lan-Pi (America) in 1178. Again this was before columbus.

On Amerigo, this link seems to suggest that he converted to Islam http://www.blurtit.com/q1392129.html

However, I highly doubt that!