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A couple days ago, a thread recently got bumped asking what if, instead of expelling them to North Africa as OTL, Spain sent its remaining Muslim population to the Spanish Netherlands and Franche-Comte. Several people pointed out various problems with this idea. But another variation occured to me-what if the Spanish sent the Moors to the Americas sometime around 1580-1600? England did something similar with its Calvinist minorities just a little later, so I think its non-ASB, if a bit implausible. But what would be the effects? A Muslim Arab nation in the Americas? Would it become a haven for escaped slaves (many of whom were Muslim)? What other effects might we see?