12th century England almost converted to Islam

[Juke]

 

[Erythrean]

Lol. Your telling me we would have had white Muslims running around? That’s disturbing..

 

[Juke]

Lol. Your telling me we would have had white Muslims running around? That’s disturbing..

Mohamed Jones and Amina Smith

 

[Khaem]

This is happening.
I'm from the sultanate of Londonstan ruled by the great sultan Sadiq Khan

 

[Erythrean]

Mohamed Jones and Amina Smith

A'oodhu billahi min ash-shaytaan-ir-rajeem. I almost Shot them…

 

[GemState]

The big one was if the Arabs took Constantinople in the 8th Century.

 

[Juke]

The big one was if the Arabs took Constantinople in the 8th Century.

To avert the Christianisation of the slavs?

 

[GemState]

To avert the Christianisation of the slavs?

Yeah, Eastern Orthodoxy should have been bottled up like Judaism

 

[Juke]

Yeah, Eastern Orthodoxy should have been bottled up like Judaism

We still had a chance in the 10th century with East Slavs/Kievan Rus (Ukraine, Russia, Belarus). Vladimir the great hosted emissaries from the great surrounding empires to choose which religion his nation would adopt. He ultimately chose against Islam because it'd ban alcohol and pork.

In the year 986 Vladimir hosted Jewish Khazars from the lower Volga, followed by papal emissaries from Germany who regaled the prince with tales of the power and grandeur of the Church of Rome. Greek scholars representing Byzantine Orthodox traditions took issue with the primacy of the pope before “Bulgars of the Mohammedan faith” arrived from the steppeland of the lower Don River and told the prince of the wondrous fulfillment of all carnal desires in the Islamic afterlife. “Vladimir listened to them,” according to the Chronicle, “for he was fond of women and indulgence, regarding which he heard with pleasure.” The Muslim Bulgars then described the rite of circumcision and the necessary abstinence from pork and wine. Furrowing his brow, Vladimir uttered a rhyme destined to be retold through the ages: “Rusi est’ vesel’e piti, ne mozhem bez togo byti.” “Drinking,” said he, “is the joy of the Russes. We cannot exist without it.”

The following year, in the water of the Dnieper River, Vladimir and the subjects of Kievan Rus’ were baptized into the church of Constantinople, and the Russians have been Orthodox Christians ever since.