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But of course is inspired by Avicenna's thread "Overview of Muslims in America", a TL about muslim plurality in US that was generated by the exodus of muslims from Levant. It was a great TL, but with one weakness : There was no satisfying explanation why the Levantine muslims migrated to US. Certainly Avicenna had already got the idea to work on it later, but I'm still left curious here. There's no way to get Levantine muslims (or almost every muslims, actually) to migrate en masse to US, unless because that their homeland is being torn up by a chaotic mess. OTOH, it's one of the most popular meme to mess up with the Ottoman Empire, so now I think we have a productive purpose to use it. ;) The thing is, how chaotic the empire could have been made ? And also, even if the Balkans and Anatolia would fall to the Christian scourges of the north, I don't think they would go as far south as Egypt (in fact not even Syria would be reached by the Russians), and if the Ottoman Empire would collapse, then Egypt would be benefited from this. Why wouldn't they be able or willing to contain at least some of the muslim refugees from the north ?

Also, can we have something other than Levantine muslims as the first wave of muslim mass migration to US ?

Whatever the way would be used, without any ASB/ASB intervention, create a US with the muslims constitute at least 20 % of the total population by 1920s onwards. To be more able to deal with the racism issues, you can set your PoD(s) (maximum 3 PoDs) as early a day after America's Declaration of Independence. You can wank the TTL US as much as you want (plausibly, so no obvious space-fillerism ;)), as long as you abide the rules depicted on the map below :

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