Columbus Day: The world turned upside down
Columbus Day: The world turned upside down
On October 9,2017 Fox news reported "Columbus Day, the second Monday in October, is a nationally recognized holiday.

But it’s not recognized in Los Angeles, where I live. The City Council recently voted to get rid of Columbus Day and replace it with Indigenous Peoples’ Day, commemorating “indigenous, aboriginal and native people.

This movement sees Columbus as a symbol of destruction, and thus not to be celebrated.

This new day was first adopted in Berkeley, California in 1992. Since then, it’s spread across the nation with increasing speed, as more than 60 cities from Maine to Washington have supported the idea...."

Columbus Day celebrates the anniversary of Columbus's arrival in the Americas on October 12, 1492. Not very far from 1492, a day that is often forgotten is May 29, 1453: The anniversary of the fall of Constantinople, the capital of the Bizantine Empire, to the invading Ottoman Army. Christians were massacred by the invading Islamic Armies, hundreds of Greek Orthodox churches in Turkey were converted into mosques. Hagia Sophia, the seat of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, was converted into a mosque, and then, in order not to return it to the Christians, into a museum where until today Christians are forbidden to pray.

Muslims today have the same claim to Hagia Sophia as the Spanish Conquistadors had to the Mayan Pyramids, yet they are celebrating the conversion of Hagia Sophia into a mosque. If Columbus is condemned today as a "symbol of destruction" why is not Mehmet, the Ottoman ruler who invaded and destroyed Constantinople? 

Fox newsreported that "Harvard University is the latest of a growing number of colleges to add "Indigenous Peoples’ Day” to its calendar, an effort, proponents say, to reject colonialism represented by Columbus Day."

Harvard University calls Columbus day "Indigenous Peoples' day" to protest Columbus "as a destroyer of indigenous people". Would Harvard also protest Mehmet "as a destroyer of Christians"?

Harvard and 60 American Cities are ashamed of Columbus and renamed Columbus day "Indigenous People's day" but Muslims still celebrate the day of the Conquest of Constantinople and have no intention of renaming the day "Christian Massacre day". 

On May 31, 2015, RT.com reported "Hundreds of thousands of people gathered to celebrate the 562nd anniversary of the Ottoman conquest of Istanbul. The massive ceremony on Saturday, believed to be "the biggest ever celebration in modern Turkey's history," was attended by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu. The Turkish Air Forces' aerobatics team and the Ottoman military band performed during the event. Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, was conquered by the Ottoman Empire on May 29, 1453."

Would Harvard and the 60 cities that condemn Columbus also condemn the Islamic massacre of Constantinople's Christians?
Constantinople was not the only city pillaged and destroyed by Islamic Armies, Muslims today are proud of their history of conquest(they do not regret or feel sorry about it). Through its history of conquest, Islamic armies invaded many nations. In their process of colonization, Islam  erased native cultures and converted holy places into Mosques. Holy Sites stolen by Islamic Armies in the past continue to be occupied today.

Would Harvard and the 60 cities that condemn Columbus also condemn the Islamic massacre of Constantinople's Christians?

Would Turkey stop celebrating the conquest and rename the holiday "Christian Massacre day"?

Would the modern Islamic regime in Turkey repent and return the occupied Hagia Sophia Church to the Christians?

Ironcally, one of the main reasons Columbus had to organize a trip to India to begin with was to look for an alternative route to avoid the Islamic Armies that were blocking original the trading routes. 

Ezequiel Doiny is author of "Obama's assault on Jerusalem's Western Wall"