DominusNovus said:
Create a POD where the relation between the majority of Christians and Muslims is the same as the relation between the majority of Catholics and Protestants (agree to disagree).
Restrictions:
-Don't have the Muslims conquer the Christians and then decide to be nice or visa versa.
-There must be a few first world Muslim countries, on par with the UK, France, or Germany. This isn't much of a restriction, as improved prosperity and stability will definately help relations. Of course, there should also be several first world Christian countries.
-If at all possible, keep the Crusades. I have to keep this somewhat challenging, after all.
-Bonus points if you have an important European/American Muslim nation, and an importan Mid Eastern Christian nation.
-Stay on topic and be civil.
Well in the AH fiction Norman and I are working on, the PODs are that
i) The Celtic church remains independent and goes on to dominate Northern Europe (i.e. Ireland, Britain, Scandinavia, Poland, Germany and Northern Russia) with the Latin Church (OTL Catholic church: France, Italy) divided under two Popes in Avignon and Rome and the Orthodox Church (Byzantine Empire, South Russia, Crimea) with the Muslims from the Middle East to Spain.
ii) Harold wins the battle of Hastings.
So far we're still in the Middle Ages (AD 1234). The Anglo-Saxons have colonised Vinland and have discovered the Mayans sacrificing humans to (shock, horror) a serpent God. With Christianity divided as it is theres little impetus for a crusade to the Holy Land. Instead, since Satan/Shaitan's kingdom on earth had obviously been discovered, the People of the Book in all their various forms rally together for a series of crusades in OTL Yucatan and S. America
By 2004, tentatively.
N. America and Europe are Christian.
Africa and S. America are largely Muslim (though, in S. America, of a sect unknown to OTL. Sort of Protestant Muslims)
The Byzantine culture remains in a state centered around Constantinople, extending around OTL Turkey + Greece + the balkans. With the major part of the Jihads/Crusades going West, Byzantium had the chance to survive.
(bonus points gained for important Muslim American nation(s) and does Byzantium count as an important christian Mid-Eastern Nation? They are Levantine)
First world countries would be Muslim Argentina (along with the Kingdom of the North and New Stamford, about as religious as OTL EU), The Kingdom of the North (OTL UK+Scandinavia+Iceland), New Stamford (Basically the Anglo-Scandanivian state covering the Eastern Seaboard of OTL US and Canada), the Holy Roman Duchies (OTL France, Spain and Italy), The Republic of Iran and Non-Iran (OTL Iran, Iraq and Kuwait. A republic with an Islamic base but, along with the Holy Roman Duchies, about as religious as OTL US is) and various Asian states, ostly buddhist or Hindu religiously.