I would not know about Kabyle specifically, but a French conversion campaign would likely target any areas with marginalized groups looking for "something new- and a way up".
As a side note, though Islamic converts became concentrated in Bosnia as the Ottomans waned, the Ottomans did not...
I think the answer regarding migrants would be a "yes" regarding all groups.
IOTL, French sponsored 'Pied Noir' settlers in Algeria included significant numbers of Italians and Spanish, as well as smaller, but still noticeable numbers of Greeks and Maltese. To my knowledge there were not...
Iberia was Christianized 400 ad, several hundred years prior to the Moorish occupation. Iberia was then re- Christianized in stages as the Moorish occupation was progressively rolled back.
The end result is a different situation that the Maghreb:
- A certain number of Iberian reverts to...
Albania was a small country that could well of had a lower "convert critical mass" required for a true mass conversion.
For example: All surrounding villages have gone at least nominally Islamic. Now, they are enjoying the offered Ottoman carrots. The Ottoman stick is usually not that bad...
Taiwan got off lightly in WWII.
Though a mass landing was contemplated in the general sense by the USA, Mac Arthur's "Return to the Philippines" was given strategic and political priority. This was then followed by Iwo Jima and Okinawa leaving Taiwan by passed.
Taiwan was not only spared...
Ooops, I did not mean to imply that China, as a whole, would still become a Japanese colony following a defeat in the Russo Japanese war.
Rather, Japan continues colonially minded "business as usual" in China: Manchuria is still broken off and becomes a Japanese colony / protectorate. The...
I think this is too sweeping. Rather, Japan seemed to have two expansionist goals in mind:
A- Establish their own colonial Empire where ever possible. China was really the only large scale possibility. All other areas had been claimed by European colonial powers.
B - Develop enough...
Sweden would see the Red Army on its borders as a direct threat to their existence. Then factor in the historic Swedish community in Finland (ala Mannerheim) and the Swedish speaking Aaland Islands, an autonomous part of what was Finland.
I am thinking that Sweden joins the Axis- well not...
The Soviets and now, Russians evidently consider that their finest military accomplishment of the war was the counter blow that followed after they stopped the Germans at Kursk in July 1943:
- Non stop Red Army blitzkrieg takes them all the way from the Kursk area, through the Donbass...
Winning the war could be a stretch, but a better prepared Spanish military could have given the US some nasty surprises that could lead to Spanish keeping Cuba. In the end, the US' last experience in peer to peer warfare was thirty years earlier. Likewise, Native Americans lacked machine guns...
My guess is that the declare anti colonialist sentiments of British socialist / Communists verse the Zardust's "exceptions always exist- well, for us" concept are going to collide in ...... Northern Ireland.
Northern Ireland has imagery that could move the Socialist / Communist hearts of the...
Maybe give the British some reinforcements....
- Coastal tribes in what is now Washington State are all staunchly pro British from early contacts with charismatic British missionaries. The missionaries distribute copious quantities of weapons. Then, they paint a picture of a relentless...
The House of Lords would get gently purged and the new chamber is the "House of the People". The people in the house then get issued alot of rubber stamps.
I agree with your concepts. But.... the required conversion of a significant majority may be too high.
For example, the Ottoman Turks initiated Islamic conversion campaigns backed by a "carrot and stick" approach.
Yet, the Ottoman convert batting average in the Balkans was probably about...
The 80% Muslim figure probably included a fair number of indigenous locals whose conversions to Islam were not that deep and who had converted as a requisite for social advancement or.... out of pure, unadulterated pragmatic desire to be on the dominate side (well, dominate at the time)...