Immigration; Muslim Immigrants =/= Lamanite Immigrants

[Fiannan]

It took eight years for Father Lehi to get his family from Jerusalem to Bountiful before they departed for the Americas. Not all that time was spent traveling or they would have arrived in Bountiful much sooner. We know part of their journey was along a route known as the Frankincense Trail where there would have been communities and other travelers. I have often wondered if Laman and/or Lemuel managed to have children with women who did not travel to the promised land with them. Perhaps those women and children would have remained on the Arabian Peninsula and become ancestors to people who live there now.

I know. Crazy idea. Feel free to shoot it full of holes.

Not so crazy. There were Jewish settlements in the that region that existed until Mohammed's forces destroyed them. Of course some of the young virgins of those tribes might have been preserved and passed their genes on.