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Then technology has sped up their timeline by a couple of hundred years. Good news!To be fair, from a historical perspective, Islam is about where the church was in the mid 1500's.
Breaking into groups according to subset beliefs, The Church of England and Lutherans splitting off
from the Roman Catholic church.
The next 100 years, would have the great Armada, and the 30 years war, and a decline in the
absolute power of the Church of Rome.
It would take another 200 years before the Pope was not seen as a major player on the Europe stage.
Napoleon, told his Ambassador to Rome, to "treat with the Pope as if he had a 200,000 man Army".
The problem I see, with Islam, is that violence appears to be acceptable Tenant of their Faith.
I know almost nothing about Islam, so mine is an outside observers opinion.
I'd hazard a guess the people fighting the 30 years war accepted violence as an "acceptable Tenant of their Faith", too.