[quote]pushharder wrote:
Like some on this board the Mufti clearly struggles with history.
Did he actually imply that Aussie aborigines were originally Muslim? That is what I inferred when he said Muslims were in Australia before the Europeans.[/quote]
Actually what he is referring to is the little known trade between aborigines and native fishermen from the Dutch East Indies. Because a handful of Indonesian fishermen who were Muslims traded with some aborigines and set foot on Australian soil before British settlement all of Australia is now Muslim land. You know how these things work.
EDIT: None of the native fisherman from the Dutch East Indies settled here. Also, the Dutch had landed in Australia at the beginning of the 17th century, 170 years before the British.