­­­What Most Americans Don’t Know about Islam?

Islam has affected the Western World from 622 AD up to today’s headlines.

For a fascinating speaking engagement that highlights captivating facts and amazing stories— you’ll want to hear acclaimed author William Federer.

Does your audience know how Islam is connected to:

• Barak Obama’s middle name “Hussein,” which is the name of what relative of Mohammed?

• The stirrup for riding horses, who invented it and how Muslims used it to change world history?

• Santa Claus - how Islam caused the story of Saint Nicholas to spread from the Byzantine Empire to Western Europe in 1087 AD?

• The Turkish Ottoman invasion and how the Byzantine Empire’s plea for help from Western Europe began the Crusades, 1095-1272 AD.

• What happened in 1453 that led Columbus to set sail in 1492?

• Dracula – the real-life account of “Vlad the Impaler” in 1462, (not Brian Stoker’s 1897 fiction novel)?

• What Captain John Smith did in 1600 before he settled Virginia, and James Oglethorpe in 1717 before he settled Georgia?

• What happened to a Pilgrim ship returning to England to trade for supplies in 1625?

• The Battle of Vienna, September 11, 1683, and how it resulted in coffee and the croissant pastry spreading through Europe?

• Thomas Jefferson, North African Barbary Pirate Wars, 1805-1815, and the U.S. Marine Anthem “from the halls of Montezuma to the Shores of Tripoli”?

• President Woodrow Wilson’s 1922 effort for the U.S. to adopt Armenia as a protectorate — similar to Puerto Rico?

• The discovery of oil in Saudi Arabia in 1938?

• What James Bond author Ian Fleming wrote about Istanbul in the London Sunday Times, 1955?

Expect enlightening information when Federer discusses everything from the Qur’an’s teachings, to Islam’s expansion through the centuries, to its effect on America!

CREDENTIALS: Best-selling author William Federer is president of Amerisearch, Inc. His latest book is WHAT EVERY AMERICAN NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT THE QUR’AN: A History of Islam & the United States. Among his other titles are: AMERICAN MINUTE, THE FAITH OF FDR, THE INTERESTING HISTORY OF INCOME TAX and GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER-His Life & Faith in His Own Words.

AVAILABILITY: St. Louis, nationwide by arrangement and via telephone; no honorarium required; available last-minute

CONTACT: William Federer, (314) 487-4395 (MO); (314) 540-1172

wjfederer@aol.com; www.AmericanMinute.com

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