islamism

So in our timeline, as cited on Wikipedia, Hafez al-Assad was nearly killed by the Muslim Brotherhood at a diplomatic function, so close that he narrowly escaped waiting for a diplomatic function. This is during the time of the Islamist Uprising in Syria (the precursor to the Syrian Civil War)...

Okay, so a lot of timelines on this site seem to have a rough equivalent to the September 13th attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the White House being carried out by Islamic Terrorists from abroad instead of Neo-Nazis from within the United States. I did some research on...

Instead of letting an Islamist revolution just happen, could the USSR pull off a successful coup/revolution that puts the Communists in power? Who would they support? And can they pull it off? And if they do so how does this affect Iran? What does the US do? Would the Soviets need to go to war...

After the Iranian revolution, Iran turned into an Islamist nation bent off radical thoughts. The Ayatollah had a lot of people executed. Whenever you have a revolution recently, you have to have a lot of superstition, and paranoia to keep what you dream of alive. Now Zoroastrianism used to be...

How could the Arab Spring uprising of 2011- been more successful? Use any POD after 2010 to achieve: 1.) More transitions to a (at least semi-) democratic state in the Arab World 2.) Fewer civil wars 3.) Less backsliding in human rights in the region.