Islamic West Slavs

Have the West Slavs (Polish, Czechs, Slovaks) become muslim. Be creative and no asb if possible.

Pod no earlier than 800 AD
O man and west slavs had a hard enough time holding back the German floodgates before.
Look at how much effort went into getting rid of the Teutonic order when the poles were Catholic.
 

raharris1973

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Sviatoslav defeats the Byzantines at Arcadiopolis and successfully moves on to take the city. He was personally a pagan. Despite the greater influence of Christians in the Rus state, the Russians breakthrough to the Mediterranean leads to ever more trade and contacts with the Muslims. Sviatoslav or a descendent converts. From there the newly converted Rus are fairly zealous and enthusiastic and do proselytizing with the western Slavs (and likely the Bulgarians and Magyars and Vlachs also) I don't know if the Serbs or Croats were Christian yet. If not, they might adopt Islam, at least the Serbs.
 
Sviatoslav defeats the Byzantines at Arcadiopolis and successfully moves on to take the city. He was personally a pagan. Despite the greater influence of Christians in the Rus state, the Russians breakthrough to the Mediterranean leads to ever more trade and contacts with the Muslims. Sviatoslav or a descendent converts. From there the newly converted Rus are fairly zealous and enthusiastic and do proselytizing with the western Slavs (and likely the Bulgarians and Magyars and Vlachs also) I don't know if the Serbs or Croats were Christian yet. If not, they might adopt Islam, at least the Serbs.
The South Slavs were already fairly Orthodox Christian by the late 10th century.
In case Sviatoslav's empire holds, i can still see it going Christian. If he manages to conquer Constantinople and wishes to hold it, then i can see him or his heir converting to Christianity fairly quickly in order to placate the Constantinopolitans.
 
Arabs take Constantinople in the 7th or 8th century and expand into the Balkans, easiest scenario for Islamic West Slavs bar none
 

TruthfulPanda

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Arabs take Constantinople in the 7th or 8th century and expand into the Balkans, easiest scenario for Islamic West Slavs bar none
To this I'd add the Rus converting to Islam - getting from Thrace to Poland is very difficult. Easier through Kiev/Novgorod.
 
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