AH Challenge: A muslim Australia

Your challenge, should you choose to accept it is to explain how could a predominantly muslim Australia come into being after 1900.
 
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Mujahid786

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Indonesian Sultanates (like Java, Saravak, Malay) find Australia, start trading posts etc.

A considerable part of the Aborigine population gets converted. And the Indonesians settle the place. And when the Europeans find it, it will be just like Indonesia and Malaysia. The Europeans will conquer it, and it will gain independence as some Islamic South-East Asian nation. It will follow mainly Hanbali and Maliki schools like the Indonesians.
 
Sorry mate, I posted this one in the wrong thread. Rather than admitting I made a mistake I quickly tried to edit it, but you beat me to it. :mad:

I'll post the old one in the correct thread.

But all pls feel free to answer :)

Regards,
Rhysz
 
Japan wins WW2 and conquers Australia, as unlikely as that is. They consolidate their southern empire with some mad population transfers, shipping out Australia's white population and resettling Australian cities with Indonesians and Malaysians.
 
Almost ASB Solution: Howard's Pacific Solution included a boatload of sweet little innocent orphans and the angelic nuns caring for them. An evil, unscrupulous boat owner, privately contracted to deport them, leaves them on a desert isle with no fresh water, when he is in a hurry to make other deliveries.

All the major television networks airlift correspondents to the isolated atoll to film the horrific conditions of hundreds of starving, thirsty innocent little cherubs. The journalists are horrified and outraged, simply outraged. (Of course none of them give the little buggers a drink of water, that would ruin the shot.) Oh, the HUMANITY!

Kevin Rudd, outraged, simply outraged at the inhumane conditions, greatly reduces immigration restrictions, almost to the point of removing all immigration restrictions.

Give it twenty years, and Oz may be majority Muslim.
 
Fishermen from the 'Spice Islands', or Ambon and Sulawesi, had long sailed to the coast of northern and north-eastern Australia, centuries before Europeans first ventured into the archipelago. IIRC there's evidence of them setting up camps for months at a time, and trading with indigenous tribespeople.

Permanent settlements wouldn't be that difficult--but you'd hardly end up with an Islamic Australia. Rather, you end up with a small minority population akin to a surviving Norse settlement at 'Vineland' in Canada.
 
Almost ASB Solution: Howard's Pacific Solution included a boatload of sweet little innocent orphans and the angelic nuns caring for them. An evil, unscrupulous boat owner, privately contracted to deport them, leaves them on a desert isle with no fresh water, when he is in a hurry to make other deliveries.

All the major television networks airlift correspondents to the isolated atoll to film the horrific conditions of hundreds of starving, thirsty innocent little cherubs. The journalists are horrified and outraged, simply outraged. (Of course none of them give the little buggers a drink of water, that would ruin the shot.) Oh, the HUMANITY!

Kevin Rudd, outraged, simply outraged at the inhumane conditions, greatly reduces immigration restrictions, almost to the point of removing all immigration restrictions.

Give it twenty years, and Oz may be majority Muslim.


You realise that the number of boatpeople to land on these shores in the last thirty years is barely in the tens of thousands, right? And that most of them were from Indo-China, not Muslim countries?

'Almost ASB solution', yeah, like this distinguished thread on the future history board which includes some of AH.com's saner members debunking the possibility of an 'Islamic' country emerging in northern Europe; I dare say Australia wouldn't end up with anything remotely approaching a Muslim 'national character', even granting your handwave lifting of 'all immigration restrictions.'
 
Perhapse multiple large scale national disasters in Muslim Countries, So thw Muslim Population immigrates to Australia. Say these happen over the course of the Century, and by today, you have a large Muslim poulation in Australia, what with Converts and what will have you.
 
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