secularism

How would the world react if a country in Western Europe suddenly turned to a political direction that can be described as a combination of Nazism and Communism? I'm mainly thinking of Belgium, or possibly a separatist region of the Netherlands, or possibly a part of Eastern Germany. For...

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?

As far as I understand when the Ottoman Empire was dissolved, religion was more important than language when it came to deciding who was Turkish and who was not. This strikes me as somewhat odd, since the Young Turks wanted a secular republic. It seems strange with a religious definition of what...