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semar
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Posted: 08 April 2005 at 12:21am |
Muslim in China
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Salam/Peace,
Semar "We are people who do not eat until we are hungry and do not eat to our fill." (Prophet Muhammad PBUH) "1/3 of your stomach for food, 1/3 for water, 1/3 for air" |
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kim!
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I have a friend who visits China quite often and spends a lot of time there. She has been learning Mandarin for many years now and is over there on a 6-month exchange right now. She and I were discussing the different ethnic groups found in China, including the Uigurs of West China. She commented that they actually are surprisingly free to keep their traditional practices, but that many, many of them cannot speak Chinese, just their traditional language. I asked her if these people are mostly very poor (she said yes) and if she thought this "freedom" was actually the government's way of making sure that the people actually stayed poor and powerless. If people cannot speak the language of their country and are, therefore, stuck in the middle of nowhere with no possibility of leaving, then those people are not going to be able to make much trouble, are they? What do you think? Kim... |
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Alfandi
Newbie Joined: 09 July 2005 Location: China Status: Offline Points: 10 |
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Hi, Acctually, Muslims in China are made up of ten ethnic groups. They are Hui, Uighurs, Khazaks, Kyrgys, Uzbek, Tatars, Tajiks, Salar, Sartars, and Bao'ans. The most distinctive features among these ethnic groups are 'language'. Hui speak Madarin. Uighurs, Khazaks, Kyrgys, Uzbek, Tatars, Tajiks and Salar speak Turkic languages. All these ethnic groups lives in Sinkiang Uighur Autonomous Region, excep Salar living in Qinghai Province. Sartars and Bao' ans speak Mongolian language, living in Gansu Province. Most of the China Muslims live in the northwest of China. But Hui Muslim communities can be found in each big cities of China. By the way, I belongs to the Hui community. |
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AK47
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I've researched Muslims of the "Far East" for a number of years now, and I have found their plight to be the most widely ignored in the Muslim world. Almost all Muslims around the world know about Palestine, Chechnya, Kashmir and Iraq, but almost no Muslims, probably as low as 30% know about East Turkestan. For instance, East Turkestan was an independant republic twice in the 20th century, originally between 1933-36, and latter between 1944 and 1949, the former being called the Islamic Republic of East Turkestan, the latter, the East Turkestan Republic. The extensive history of Muslims in China and South East Asia is virtually unknown in the Muslim world. The very capable president of the 2nd East Turkestan republic Alihan Tore went missing in the Soviet Union, while his deputies were mysteriously killed in a plane crash over the Soviet Union on their way to negotiate the status of East Turkestan with the newly formed communist government in Beijing. Semar tells it correctly when he wrote about the persecution that Chinese Muslims have faced under the Communist regime. However, the biggest threat by far to the Islamic identity of East Turkestan is the rampant immigration of Han Chinese into East Turkestan. The Chinese govts. official policy is to swamp the Muslim of East Turkestan with Han settlers, who now control the East Turkestan economy almost entirely. From a once 90% majority in East Turkestan, Muslims have been reduced to as low as 50% in some parts of the province. And that is just the case in East Turkestan, not to mention the other parts of China, where Muslims are routinely discriminated against by the piggish Han majority, unless the Muslims pretty well abandon their religion and cultural traditions and assimilate into Han culture. |
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ummziba
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Assalamu alaikum, Thanks to all the posters on this thread - this is most interesting! This is the kind of sharing of information that makes this forum worth visiting. Alhamdulillah! Peace, ummziba. |
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meh26
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Assalaamuralaikum? My name is mehtaab, me, my husband and my daughter we are looking to establish ourselves in China, Foshan City. We worried about the food, what if we do not get Muslim Halal Food there. Also, my daughter is only 3 years old and what will happen to her eduction, islamic. Please if you something please reply. Allah will help you.
Wassalaam,
Mehtaab.
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Muslima
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I think it will be difficult for you to find halal....also they eat a lot of pork I think. Why don't you go to malaysia? |
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ak_m_f
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sister, Its not that easy to packup and move. |
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