AHC: Prevent the rise of Islamic Fundamentalism

The Saudis not getting two out of three in the Islamic holy citiesmcount would help. It will certainly be a lot easier without the spread of Wahhabism.
 
What is fundamentalism here? Strictly speaking anybody living in strict observation of religious rules and accepting religious dogma is a fundamentalist.

If, as I suspect, you mean rise of Al Qaida, Iranian islamic republic and like then you'd need (semi) democratic Arab/muslim states. Such undemocratic regimes were good at supressing political opposition of any stripe but couldn't supress religious (institutions) based ones since that would require destroying religion.
 
Islamic fundamentalism is difficult, perhaps even impossible avoid, but terrorism/Taliban style government we can avoid easily.

1. Save Ottoman Empire or leastly caliphate and caliph/sultan of Ottomans has rule leastly Mecca and Medina. And Jerusalem too would be good.

2. No Jewish state in Middle East.

3. Not imperialism in Middle East.

4. Not corrupted, which are puppets of western countries, regimes in Islamic regimes.
 
Challenge: Prevent the rise of Islamic Fundamentalism.

Sadly, you'd need a POD of before 1700 if you wanted to have a chance of preventing it altogether.....though I guess getting rid of Al-Qaeda or the Muslim Brotherhood might not be too hard after 1900: perhaps Hassan Al-Banna & his family end up dying in the revolution of 1919, or something.....
 
If you want to prevent something like the rise of the Islamic republic in Iran, I think stopping the secular reforms of Reza Shah and his son is needed. They both wanted to emulate Turkey, which under Ataturk had enacted a number of sweeping secular laws which pushed Islam out of the public sphere to a large degree. However, both father and son ignored that there were a number of differences between Turkey and Iran that made their reforms much more likely to experience internal opposition that eventually manifested itself in the revolution.

The Iranian "Reformists" lacked both Turkey's able body of civil servants, and was faced with a much more entrenched religious hierarchy than Turkey did. The largely cosmetic reforms succeeded in riling up the religious leaders, and did little to improve the position of the average Iranian. If the reforms are much less severe, and the benefits of Iran's growing economy are more evenly shared out, maybe there would be less popular anger against the Shah for Khomeini to take advantage of.
 
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