User blog comment:Fedelede/Thoughts about Saint Muhammad/@comment-1777104-20120306035056

Well Fed, it seems like a good piece of fiction, but all the "butterflies" you introduce don't seem to have much to do with Mohammed, the Christian. On the talk page you make it clear that things are happening the way YOU want them to, so the ideas of others want change things too much. Strictly speaking, by looking at the timeline, the Arabs don't seem much different from in OTL -- they want to conquer the surrounding area in the name of their God. It is not clear how the Christian teaching comes about, but the Christian influence throughout the regions they first conquered were pretty large in the seventh century. Alexandria, Jerusalem and Antioch were major centers of Christianity. Muhammedsts (?) would not massacre fellow Christians since they would not have the same directives to convert at the edge of the sword. Largely, Christianity would grow stronger all around the Mediterranean Sea. The Roman Church would probably not prevail as it does in OTL with the much larger Coptic Church. I can see the stronger African church perhaps altering the Roman Church in such a way as to strengthen its ties with the East. Perhaps the "Great Schism" would be between the Northern and Southern Churches instead. With Jerusalem in the hands of the Christian Arabs, the Crusades would not happen the way they did. All in all, the changes might in deed be huge, but the way you have moved things to build a different world, it lacks plausibility. Having read the talk page, though, I see where you want to take it. I certainly won't stand in your way.