AHC: Make America 25% or more Muslim by 1900

I can see two possibilities (not mutually exclusive) :
- a sort of Male Rising scenario: Islam is seen as the "authentic" faith of the Black slave population and offers the framework for their liberation.
Come *ACW, big Islam-inspired risings supported by Union forces occur in most slave states. Subsequently, Islam is seen as an integral part of the new American identity and specifically a feature of Afro-American identity, spreading fast across a significant section of the population, mostly but not solely black.
- something horrible happens to the Ottoman Empire in a context where the US are encouraged to take Muslim immigrants from there.

25% is still very tall order, but these are the most likely ways I guess.

The first one sounds rather interesting, I would have to wonder how exactly one would bring it about. I am also curious as to whether this would have an effect on settlement in the west. Afro-American Muslims heading out west could end up doing a bit of proselytizing and bring more converts in.

I'm trying to think what short of a revival of the Byzantine Empire would be horrible enough to send muslims from the Ottoman Empire to the US. Hmmm...although I have to wonder if there would be some way for the Ottomans and US to end up having earlier relations, and whether this could somehow effect things.
 
I'm trying to think what short of a revival of the Byzantine Empire would be horrible enough to send muslims from the Ottoman Empire to the US. Hmmm...although I have to wonder if there would be some way for the Ottomans and US to end up having earlier relations, and whether this could somehow effect things.

I was vaguely thinking something on the lines of a massive "Arabs vs. Turks" sort of strife (not going to be pretty, but it's also very unlikely before 1900), but it should be enginereed in a way that makes the US willing to welcome the immigrants. Another equally vague idea was on "Russian rampage all over" lines.
 

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There is about 2.5 million Muslims increasing this should be hard all you need is the black Muslims to do better or all more imagine the from the Middle East.
 
Have the Ottoman Empire undergo a quicker, more bloodier and chaotic collapse during the early nineteenth century and millions of Muslim immigrants flee the Ottoman Empire to the Americas?
 
The first one sounds rather interesting, I would have to wonder how exactly one would bring it about. I am also curious as to whether this would have an effect on settlement in the west. Afro-American Muslims heading out west could end up doing a bit of proselytizing and bring more converts in.

I'm trying to think what short of a revival of the Byzantine Empire would be horrible enough to send muslims from the Ottoman Empire to the US. Hmmm...although I have to wonder if there would be some way for the Ottomans and US to end up having earlier relations, and whether this could somehow effect things.

I wonder how Russia would respond to a new Byzantine state, with all their Third Rome and stuff.
 
I wonder how Russia would respond to a new Byzantine state, with all their Third Rome and stuff.

A neo-Byzantine state would likely have been a creation of the Russian Tsar and thus a vassal state (personal union with Russia) instead of an indigenous creation by the Greeks or one of the southern Slavic peoples subject to Ottoman rule.
 
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