AHC: Muslim majority country in the Americas

The fact the Spaniards explicitly prohibited new christians from settling the new world seems to make this scenario impossible inside the frame of post reconquista Spain.

The POD could involve the Spainish crown allowing such a settlement. Or perhaps instead of an Inqusition they establish some kind of penal colony in the hitherlands (Say, Patagonia or northern Mexico) to form a kind of human shield between valuable, populated territories and the more hostile Native American tribes. It'd be rather amusing to see the Great Salt Lake region being peopled by literal Moor-Man settlers.

Then they fight the oppression, by being nice to everyone. (Especially the local women :p)
 
If we can go after 1900, then the attempted Islamic revolution in Trinidad succeeds, prompting many of the rest of the population to leave, and the revolutionary government then encourages refugees from Middle Eastern wars to resettle in the country?

How can you have an Islamic Revolution in a country which is maybe 5-6% Muslim? And Jamaat al-Muslimeen had the support of a fraction of those Muslims. If they succeed in their coup, then there will be a counter-coup/short civil war within weeks that deposes them (and probably results in some serious sectarian violence). Also, the United States isn't going to like that, since the group was allegedly linked to Libya.

Further, you'd have to kill/exile/whatever almost 600,000 people, and then get 600,000 new people (all Muslim) to flip T&T to being a Muslim nation. Utterly impossible. You'd plunge the island into civil war, and that might not be acceptable to foreign powers (i.e. the United States, T&T exiles) since the island has all that oil and natural gas. And refugees aren't going to settle a place with a major civil war going on.

Had revolution in T&T any chances to success?

If it did, it wouldn't be an Islamic revolution, and T&T would not become an Islamist state.
 
Get the various colonial powers to import Indonesians (Malays, in the case of Britain), as the Dutch did in Suriname, and the Caribbean will have a large Muslim Indonesian population instead of a large Indian population.
And Guyana also
 
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