Improbable Challenge: Scandinavian Religion

I am offering an improbably challenge. The idea is to give out an extremely unlikely (but not impossible) scenario, and then try to find the most realistic way to get it to work. So, here goes.

The challenge is to make Islam the dominant religion in Scandinavia by 1300, without causing a Years of Rice and Salt-style uber-plague. Also, the religion must be accepted by the majority of the Scandinavian population, not just by the upper classes.

Ready... go!
 

Philip

Donor
Your best bet is probably to have the Rus convert to Islam, and then have it spread to Scandinavia by trade.
 
And the best bet to convert the Rus is through the Mongol-Kipchak Golden Horde, but any effect on Scandinavia would probably occur post-1300. Islam had a negligable influence on the Pontic Steppe until the Mongols appeared, and even they only converted to Islam after a century, due largely to the number of Muslims among the non-Mongol Turkic and Persian bureaucrats and troops that served the Mongols that were either already there, or had initially followed their Mongol overlords from central Asia into southern Russian and the Ukrainian regions.
 
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