The 2,400-year-old tomb was revered by local people in the Marmaris district of Turgut.
The strange hilltop pyramid tomb was believed to be te the burial place of a holy Islamic figure.
But archaeologists recently confirmed that the tomb was Greek and actually belonged to a boxer called Diagoras of Rhodes.
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Another historical Islamic fiction revealed. We see this time and time again – art, discoveries, cultures, countries – you name it, stolen and co-opted for faked Islamic history.
Back in 2012, I wrote an expose “1001 Pieces of Islamist Propaganda: Fabricated Exhibit Comes to D.C.,” in PJ Media. In it, I examine the disingenuous and misleading 1001 Muslim Inventions exhibit.
1001 Muslim Inventions raises more questions about the decline of Muslim civilization than it answers, yet projects like 1001 Muslim Inventions have support at very high levels. Remember in June 2010 when Charlie Bolden, the NASA chief appointed by President Obama, revealed that Obama had asked him to “find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with predominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science, math, and engineering”?
The truth: what contributions?
Islamic scholar Robert Spencer points out that much of what are considered Muslim inventions today, including many that 1001 Muslim Inventions celebrates, have been wildly exaggerated if not outright fabricated, “often for quite transparent apologetic motives.” You”ve heard Muslims invented the zero, right? Actually, no.
Jewish sites in Israel, holy Christian sites in Turkey, Hindu temples in India, Kashmir have all been stolen.
But one scientist asks this critical question:
But what happens when we start fabricating objects for the tales we want to tell? Why do we reject the real material remnants of the Islamic past for their confected counterparts? What exactly is the picture of science in Islam that are we hoping to find? These fakes reveal more than just a preference for fiction over truth. Instead, they point to a larger problem about the expectations that scholars and the public alike saddle upon the Islamic past and its scientific legacy….
Islamic ‘Holy Site’ Turns Out to Be Greek Boxer’s Tomb…
DEAD WRONG
‘Holy Islamic burial pyramid’ where villagers sacrificed animals for decades ‘actually ancient Greek boxer’s tomb’
By Sean Keach, Digital Technology and Science Editor, The Sun, August 16, 2019;
AN ISLAMIC holy site once believed to be the tomb of a saint was actually built for a famous Ancient Greek boxer.
Local worshippers had “sacrificed goats and chickens” at the Turkish tomb for decades – but now fear that their prayers were in vain.
An ancient pyramid tomb was once believed to have belonged to an Islamic saintCredit: TRT
But archaeologists now believe the tomb belongs to Diagoras of Rhodes, a famous Ancient Greek boxerCredit: TRT
The 2,400-year-old tomb was revered by local people in the Marmaris district of Turgut.
The strange hilltop pyramid tomb was believed to be the the burial place of a holy Islamic figure.
But archaeologists recently confirmed that the tomb actually belonged to a boxer called Diagoras of Rhodes.
“I used to kiss
Diagoras of Rhodes is believed to have claimed boxing victories at several Olympic gamesCredit: TRT Locals would kiss the tomb and take clumps of Earth from it as a blessingCredit: TRT
The tomb is notable for its strange pyramidal ceilingCredit: TRT
“People would sacrifice chickens or goats for their prayers to be answered,” she added.
The tomb served as a pilgrimage site for Muslims, who had named it Çağbaba.
Townsfolk would pray at the tomb and ask for good fortune, rain, fertility or safe return from military service.
But it turns out that the place has no religious history.
“Diagoras won many prizes, and these have been found in many different temples,” said archaeologist Raşit Öztürk, speaking about Diagoras’ tomb.
“He was a boxer who would draw applause from people when he walked the streets.”
Diagoras of Rhodes was an Ancient Greek boxer who lived in the 5th century BC.
He was descended from the king of Ialysus, and was the winning boxing twice in the Olympic Games.
And the pugilant champ also claimed victories in the Isthmian, Nemean and Pythian Games.
The hillside tomb has no religious history to speak ofCredit: TRT
It was reportedly built to celebrate the life of DiagorasCredit: TRT
A statue to Diagoras is erected in modern-day Rhodes
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SeveredSeclusiveIdiom
4 years ago
any sharia-compliant work is not compatible with any original creation
it is a sharia-compliant copy of something already created by a non-muslim
Achmed Mohandjob
4 years ago
This reminds me of a conversation that I had with an irenian moslem, around twelve years ago. This blithering idiot tried to lay claim to moslems “inventing” algebra. I pointed out that there were Babylonian tablets … dated to around 1700 BC, where relatively advanced algebra was present … Of course, that’s only 2300 years before mohammud (satan’s lowest and MOST COWARDLY demon) walked the face of the earth. He turned red (at least as red as some purzhun can get) and stammered, stuttered …. It was quite the humorous sight. Of course, my laughing at him probably didn’t help matters.
Plimpton 302 is a Babylonian clay tablet, estimated to be from around 1800 BC. On that tablet, there are three numbers … which today would be called “Pythagorean Triples”. That’s almost two and one half millennia before moohawmid.
A Greek astronomer, Eratosthenes, used trigonometry to calculate the circumference of the earth in 200 BCE. The first person in the history of the world to do that and an advanced application of trigonometry if there ever was one.
He wasn’t surrounded by other moslems. Unless the odds are ten-to-one in the favor …. or they’re armed and you’re not … they’re not that into physical violence.
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago
So since its a pagan tomb doesn’t that mean the muslums have to destroy it?
….that is being done all over the middle east and Europe (the Cathedral fire…the Macron keeps ignoring …..I’ve seen it on the history channel….our Libtard Left is doing it in America with our historical sites and statues……..and no one is alarmed or is stopping them.
I’m alarmed, but I’m too old to stop them.
CAREFUL MY FRIEND WITH WHAT YOU POST ANYMORE . WE DON’T NEED SOME RED FLAG DOUCHE BAG KICKING IN YOUR FRONT DOOR AT 3 IN THE MORNING.
Maranatha
4 years ago
One mistake among others…
John Marks
4 years ago
It doesn’t really matter who it belonged to. It predates Islam by 1000 years.
naryagrunion
4 years ago
Let’s just start with the most basics of all wanna-be idealisms: THERE IS “NOTHING HOLY” ABOUT iz-lame, NOTHING!!!!!! All this POS “wish it were an actual religion” Garbage amounts to is A LIE!!!! Plain and simple, there is Nothing to refer to this Lame idea other than a FAKE, LIAR, POS, WICKED AND EVIL TURD, “CREATED” AN IDEA IN THE 600 A.D.’s, THE 7TH CENTURY AND IS BASED UPON “NOTHING” OTHER THAN A WANT TO BE FOLLOWED AFTER BY ABSOLUTELY BLIND, IGNORANT, A&&HOLE& THAT NEEDED ANYWHERE TO TURN, OTHER THAN TO “TRUE, PROVEN, FACTUAL CHRISTIAN BELIEFS AND PRINCIPLES AND TO TRY AND TOPPLE AND DOMINATE ANYONE AND ANYTHING THAT BELIEVED AND OR LIVED IN THESE PRINCIPLES AND BELIEFS AND “FAITH!!!!!” Pathetically, sadly we have had this thorn in the side of the rest of the world ever since and IT HAS GOT TO BE BROUGHT TO AN END, “NO MATTER WHAT THE OUTCRY OR PROTEST FROM THE “THE MOST IGNORANT OF SO-CALLED BELIEFS TO EVER COME ALONG, THAT FALLS SHORT OF JUST ONE, WHICH NAME I WILL NOT WRITE BECAUSE OF HOW TERRIBLY “OFFENSIVE IT IS” AND THAT’S you know who, that lives and or dwells down below and has been and continues to be the lasting grief and thorn of absolute sadness and degradation on the face of the earth, from the time he was cast down from Heaven for his evil and wicked wants and desire to overtake Heaven and ‘GOD HIMSELF” WHICH DID NOT, HAS NOT AND NEVER WILL HAPPEN, EVER, AMEN!!!!!!!” This Slime of a wanna-be religion is The Greatest Cause for undue and unwarranted deaths, tortures, imprisonments, suffering, wars and every bad, filthy, Unacceptable act that is attributed Directly to these Animals and Crawling Coyotes from hell!!!!!!
naryagrunion
4 years ago
THEY CAN “ALL” KISS MY DAMN A&& AND THE A&&E& OF EVERY “TRUE AMERICAN AND EVERYONE ELSE WHO WILL NOT ACCEPT ONE IOTA OF THEIR LIES AND CONTEMPTUOUS BULL&HIT!!!!!!” THIS WANNA-BE religion AND ANY THAT FOLLOW AFTER IT’S GARBAGE ARE LOWER THAN THE LOWEST AND THEIR STENCH RISES UNTO HEAVEN ITSELF AND “IT AND THEY SHALL ALL BE WASHED CLEAN AND THOSE WHO REFUSE TO RENOUNCE AND DENOUNCE THIS SENT FROM HELL TRASH, WILL BE PUNISHED BY “OUR ONLY TRUE AND LIVING SAVIOR AND MERCIFUL SALVATION, JESUS CHRIST” WHO HAS TOLD US ALL TO TURN AWAY FROM AND KNOW THAT “ANYTHING THAT IS NOT OF JEHOVAH GOD AND HIS SON JESUS THE CHRIST, IS A LIE, A FALSEHOOD AND TO HOLD ONTO FALSE BELIEFS AND FAITHS IS TO SUFFER THE ULTIMATE PUNISHMENT AND CONDEMNATION, AMEN!!!!!”
Roma Mikhasev
4 years ago
religion of retarded :)))
Pantalones
4 years ago
There go the Muslims again taking credit for things that isn’t theirs. Why not instead celebrate that which IS there’s like Rape Cowardice, Prison homosexuality, inbreeding pedophilia etc
Peter WF
4 years ago
When are we going to see a muzi on the moon?
All that oil money and they can’t even protect their own trade routes. Pathetic.
ladywarrior
4 years ago
Marx and Alinsky taught their followers that if they can change a people’s history…they can own and rule that group and teach them a new “history”….
Examples of it happening the USA:
The tearing down of our national monuments and statues;
People being allowed to swear into Congress on a Qu’ran and not the Bible;
Teachers being forced to learn about how to present Islam in a positive light …on our tax dollars;
I put four kids through school…the last one never got one class on American history unless it was something negative……and not once were any of them taught about Christianity. They said it was “separation of church and state.” Apparently that is not true today.
We are becoming a Godless nation…and we all know what God does to Godless nations…..
John Acord
4 years ago
The appropriation by Islamists of pagan, Christian and Jewish history, philosophy, mathematics, technology, architecture, and customs is not new, but its efforts to convince westerners of these fake facts is highly organized and institutionalized by fake museum exhibitions, fake collaboration of the National Geographic Society, among others, and especially by the Pearson Publishing company that publishes millions of textbooks containing these fake facts . Pearson Is controlled by the Qatar wealth fund and is an outlet for Islamic propaganda directed at tens of millions of unwitting western students.
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