Board Thread:Board Room/@comment-6191837-20130227200639/@comment-6191693-20130322205532

The fighting would not be the same because part of what makes the in-fighting between the three Abrahamic religions is that we're all so similar -- we share many of the same beliefs (including the worship of the same God, not matter how much you try to pretend otherwise, that misunderstanding in itself being an integral part of the conflict), we share many of the same holy books, holy lands, and holy relics, et cetera, et cetera. People who are too much alike rarely get along; the same goes for religions, I guess.

So, yes, I'm pretty adament that we not cut Islam out of our world history in favor of a vague, mysterious fictional religion that we know little about and is only vaguely similar (and even then, only culturally) to RL Islam.