When the Spanish, English, French, Dutch, and Portuguese, conquered various native people in the New World, the Spanish, who came first, had just literally driven the Muslims from Western Europe in 1492.
The Muslims still heavily infested central, east, and southern Europe, and would do so for hundreds of years more.
No Western colonial power, then or later, wanted to see any free Muslims or Muslim colonies whatsoever in the New World, for very obvious reasons. Some Muslims were brought here, of course, but they were brought as slaves.
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