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The Lebanon thread had me thinking: Over the last 150 years, the trend throughout the Middle East has been for the area to become more and more Muslim. Christians began emigrating from Lebanon and Syria in large numbers around the turn of the 20th century, and now large numbers of Copts and Chaldeans are moving to the U.S. At one point, IIRC, Palestine actually ranged up to 30% Arab Christian - almost all of whom have become part of the Palestinian diaspora now. And of course, the long-standing Jewish communities outside of Israel are now largely gone.

Could we see, with a POD later than 1500, the reverse? Some sort of mass migration of Muslims out of the Middle East to somewhere else? Please note, I'm not asking for neo-crusaders to ethnically cleanse the area. I'm also not asking for some sort of mass conversion.

But would it be possible to have a substantial enough migration to have roughly the following percentages Christian?

Lebanon (in the modern sense) - 60%
Palestine - 50%
Syria - 30%
Egypt - 20%
Jordan - 12%
Iraq - 7%

Plus, of course the Jewish communities in the Middle East pretty much remaining as they were pre-Israel
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