Mosque for Chinese Muslims nears reality

The news is a couple of months old but better late than never. I have been following this news for some time now and it seems that it is finally becoming a reality. Here is the relevant story from The Star Online. Tuesday March 1, 2011 Mosque for Chinese Muslims nears reality KUALA LUMPUR: Chinese [...]

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Chindian: Chinese-Indian Muslim

India and China are two most populous nations in the world. With globalization and massive movement of people from part of the world to the other it is bound to happen that there will be inter-mixing between these two nationalities. I found the following relevent excerpt with respect to Chinese-Indian Muslims on a forum. a. [...]

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Flavourful Muslim fare in Taiwan

Prospects of tourism between Taiwan another Islamic countries. Flavourful Muslim fare in Taiwan 2010/03/10 ZALINA MOHD SOM When in Taiwan, Malaysians can indulge in a favourite pastime — that of eating out — with relish, writes ZALINA MOHD SOM EXCEPT for his white skull-cap, 80-year-old Yusuf Ai looks as ordinary as the next man. The [...]

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Nik Aziz defends Nga’s recital of Quranic verse

Apparently some non-Muslim Chinese member of the parliament in Malaysia recited the Quran and some people tried to make it an issue but it did not succeed. The point to be taken here is that Quran is for everyone and not for one group or another. Nik Aziz defends Nga’s recital of Quranic verse KOTA [...]

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Wang Daiyu’s Random Observations

(Note: By Wang Daiyu I mean myself and not the famous scholar.) Today I will be taking a break from regular blogging and will be going slightly off topic and talking about a few random things about life, Islam, America, China etc. Depending upon where you live you can see the most integrated and the [...]

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Islam in Inner Mongolia

Most people outside of China do not know this but there are more Mongolians that live in China then Mongolians who live in the country of Mongolia itself! Most of them live in Chinese provinces of Inner Mongolia and Liaoning. A minority of Mongolians are also Muslims. I recently came across this article on “Muslim” [...]

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The Chinese Muslim Ancestry of the Malaysian Prime Minister

Although most Malaysian Muslims may already know this but this fact is usually surprising for many non-Malaysian. One of the ancestors of the current Prime Minister of Malaysia, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, was a Muslim from China who married a Malay woman. Prime Minister Badawi’s maternal grandfather Hassan (Ha Su Chiang) came from China’s Hainan Island [...]

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