Editing Wilhelm II (section)

===Attitude towards Islam===
Wilhelm II was on friendly terms with the [[Muslim world]].{{Sfn|Dudoignon|Hisao|Yasushi|2006|p=188}} He described himself as a "friend" to "300 million [[Mohammedan]]s".{{Sfn|Motadel|2014|pp=244–245}} Following his trip to [[Constantinople]] (which he visited three times—an unbeaten record for any European monarch){{Sfn|Landau|2015|p=46}} in 1898, Wilhelm II wrote to Nicholas II that:<ref>{{cite news|title=How Recep Tayyip Erdogan seduces Turkish migrants in Europe|url=https://www.economist.com/news/europe/21727921-big-diaspora-complicates-european-relations-turkey-how-recep-tayyip-erdogan-seduces|access-date=2 September 2017|newspaper=[[The Economist]]|date=31 August 2017}}</ref>

{{Blockquote|text=If I had come there without any religion at all, I certainly would have turned Mohammedan!}}

In response to the political competition between the Christian sects to build bigger and grander churches and monuments which made the sects appear idolatrous and turned Muslims away from the Christian message.{{clarify|date=August 2019}}<ref name="WheelerFunk1920">{{cite book|author1=Edward Jewitt Wheeler|author2=Isaac Kaufman Funk|author3=William Seaver Woods|title=The Literary Digest|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7ww8AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA3-PA38|year=1920|page=3}}</ref>