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Yes I can imagine an alternate world where Islam was true. If it was this world, where Islam is false but I accepted it anyway, I doubt I would experience the same signal graces, miracles, and spiritual experiences that I do now. You are assuming that I would because you are coming from the assumption that neither is true.
Edit: I also think that to be a Muslim you have to ignore a lot of things to get by, while as a Catholic I don't have to ignore anything. Largely how the Quran is actually considered literally the word of God and yet misunderstands Christianity severely, gets events wrong from the Old Testament while claiming that the OT is also simultaneously true. Whereas the Biblical interpretive key has room for individual authors writing in their biases.
I am assuming that you would because I am coming from the assumption that Muslims experience signal graces, miracles and spiritual experiences. And I am not asking you to imagine an alternate world where Islam is true, I am asking you to imagine a world where you accepted it as true.
Why do you assume this? I think, if I accepted Islam as true in a world where it is not true, I would not have made as much spiritual progress.
I understand that Islam is a totalizing ideology, which seems to be what you are getting at. But the example of the Catholic and Orthodox saints blow the Awliya completely out of the water in terms of life-changing conversions, selfless love, signs and wonders. In fact, while Islam has a concept of miracles, Karamah, their theology says that people should hide their miracles and not flaunt them. This means that unlike Catholic miracles, most Islamic miracles have very little investigation, even from Islam-friendly sources.
Let's put the question to you. If you were in a world where Catholicism was true, would you expect that Catholics would experience more miracles, inner conversions, spiritual progress than Muslims? If you were in a world where Islam was true, would you expect that Muslims would experience more miracles, inner conversions, spiritual progress than Catholics?
Because I have no reason to believe your inner experiences of faith - you as in the collective Catholic, not you specifically - are significantly more rich than those of the collective Muslim when the outward expression is the same. I have my differences with Islam and believe sincere Islam to be incompatible with the model of society I prefer more so than sincere Christianity, but I wouldn't go so far as to assume they have nothing in their heads.
That seems to support my point - that Catholic experiences of miracles appear to be more popular because they are investigated more, not because Muslims experience significantly fewer miracles. (To be frank, even if they did experience fewer miracles, the appropriate amount of miracles supporting a false religion would be zero, would it not?)
See my reply above - in a supposed thought experiment where Catholicism is objectively true, Muslim miracles do not objectively exist.
Would Catholics think they experience miracles more than Muslims, on levels not explainable by IQ, intensity of religious education, reporting effects - I don't think so.
Of course I would expect the world to look radically different than it looks now if Catholicism was true. I won't bother you with the details, others have listed them, in short I would expect it to look more like something out of Unsong - so obviously Christian that Islam, let alone atheism, would be engaged in only by deliberate contrarians or the mentally ill unable to participate in society.
Vice versa for a world where Islam was true.
And yet, I live in the current world, where you and a Muslim both would tell me I live in one of theirs, using very similar arguments!
There's a difference between paranormal circumstances, miracles, and vindictatory miracles. I'd expect 0 miracles that vindicate distinctively Muslim claims, meaning theological claims that Muslims make that Catholics do not also make. But "God loves us and has a plan for my life so He healed me" is a claim that holds as true in both Christianity and Islam. I'm even open to the possibility that humans have senses that we have yet to study in depth. Parapsychologists study and claim that many humans have an innate talent for water dowsing, remote viewing, telepathy, etc, which might be confused for a miracle in another religion but might actually follow some natural laws that we have yet to unpack.
Catholicism has the best attested vindicatory miracles and there are no real attempts in other religions to claim otherwise. Atheists like to believe that it must all be the same, but I haven't' seen one actually put in the effort to prove that other religions make anything like the claims of Catholicism.
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