equality

After rewatching to kill a Mockingbird and other pre-1962 dramas set in the US south, that made me think. The large majority of whites and blacks in the south were both employed in farming, and most equally poor. But still most of the white population had a massive hatred towards...

This is admittedly unrealistic, but is it possible at all for any European nation to keep most of its colonies and eventually grant all citizens of their empire equal rights regardless of race or religion? I researched this a bit myself and I find it easier to see Europe do this with a POD prior...

With a POD after 1800, what would be needed to have the majority of the world's Muslims support full legal equality between men and women, and between all religions, even in Muslim majority societies, by the 21st Century?