AHC:large muslim presence in Latin America

In Latin America there are important middle eastern communities however these are mostly arab christian. you challenge is to make it so that by the year 2000 muslims make up 10-20 percent of the population of Latin America. bonus points for creating large turkish minority in Mexico.
 
In Latin America there are important middle eastern communities however these are mostly arab christian. you challenge is to make it so that by the year 2000 muslims make up 10-20 percent of the population of Latin America. bonus points for creating large turkish minority in Mexico.
West African colonization of Brazil.
 
A stable, unified Al-Andalus stands the test of time, while the other Western Europeans are stuck bickering with each other in petty wars, and never unify. Andalusian Merchants, for some reason, look west and reach America, where a slow encroachment of Islam mixed with Meso-american Traditions takes hold of the Continent, like Africa or Indonesia OTL.
 
A stable, unified Al-Andalus stands the test of time, while the other Western Europeans are stuck bickering with each other in petty wars, and never unify. Andalusian Merchants, for some reason, look west and reach America, where a slow encroachment of Islam mixed with Meso-american Traditions takes hold of the Continent, like Africa or Indonesia OTL.

Combine this with a resurgent Byzantium retaking the Holy-Land and cutting off all trade to the east and you have an impetus to do so.
 

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West African slaves imported to the Americas never convert to Christianity, and form a permanent Muslim underclass in the New World that the Spanish are desperate to repress?

...Damn, that sounds interesting. Free TL idea if anyone wants it! :)
 
West African slaves imported to the Americas never convert to Christianity, and form a permanent Muslim underclass in the New World that the Spanish are desperate to repress?

...Damn, that sounds interesting. Free TL idea if anyone wants it! :)
Malê Rising.;)
Though in that they go to Nigeria afterwards.
 
There are sizable Muslim communities in Guyana, Surinam, etc. If Britain had more success against Venezuela, or if more Muslims instead of Hindus immigrated, we could have a Muslim majority there.
 
Could Spain decide to deport its muslim population to the less valuable colonies?

Even if it makes them convert first the colonists islamic identity could reappear later.
 
I think you could do a lot with the importation/emigration of coollies as laborers, particularly in the 1880s and 90s, when it seemed to have been a fad.
 
I think you could do a lot with the importation/emigration of coollies as laborers, particularly in the 1880s and 90s, when it seemed to have been a fad.

This was more less what I meant. The problem with west African colonisation of Latin America is that it would not be Latin America.
maybe have the spanish exile their muslims to the new world.
 
This was more less what I meant. The problem with west African colonisation of Latin America is that it would not be Latin America.
maybe have the spanish exile their muslims to the new world.

Not likely without changing the entire dynamic of Spanish imperialism. Remember, Spanish society until 1492 had been built around fighting pagans, in a lot of ways, the conquistadors typify a civilization suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, unable to rectify once-neccesary behaviors in the wake of those survival mechanisms becoming obsolete. The Americas were sort of a haven away from heathens, meant to be viciously proselytized in the name of God, Glory, and Spain.
 
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