They will do better after they convert the leadership of China to Islam , but then the Chaphilate will be headquartered in Peking.
Sandpeople religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) are exclusivist, meaning one cannot be a believer in any one of them and anything else (Shinto, Buddhism, Tao) at the same time. They havre never been popular in China.
There is no chance that China will ever become an Islamic nation. No one who knows the Chinese or Islam will believe that this is possible.
There are Uygur Muslems in China, quite a few.
There is not a adversarial relationship as far as I know.
http://chinese-school.netfirms.com/Islam-China.htmlIslam is one of the five major religions in China. The four others are Buddhism, Taoism, Catholicism and the Protestantism.
Observing the Prophet's instructions, his followers sent missionaries to China one after another.
Muslims virtually dominated the import-export industry by the time of the Song Dynasty (960-1279).
Some of them later became permanent residents in such prosperous cities as Xi'an, Quanzhou in Fujian Province, Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province, Yangzhou in Jiangsu Province, Hami and Guangzhou, where they built mosques and cemeteries.
Islam took shape in China in the Yuan Dynasty when mosques were erected in almost every city having new Muslim settlers.
Among the most famous ones are the Huaisheng Mosque in Guangzhou, the Niujie Mosque in southern downtown Beijing, which was built in AD 996, and the Holy Crane Mosque in Yangzhou of East China's Jiangsu Province, which was built in 1274 by Buhaddine of Mecca, and is still an important place of worship.
Islamic religion and culture was allowed further growth in the Ming and Qing dynasties.
One example is that Hui Muslim Zheng He ( 1371-1435) was assigned by the Ming emperors to be the head of their powerful ocean-going fleet, the largest in the world at that time.
After the founding of New China in 1949, the Islamic faith of the Chinese Muslim were fully respected and protected by the government.
Today, Islam is the dominant religion among 10 Chinese ethnic groups: the Uygur, Hui, Kazak, Kirgiz, Tajik, Tartar, Uzbek, Bao'an, Dongxiang and Salar. China has at least 20 million Muslims.
In Xinjiang, there are 9 million Muslims and 23,000 mosques in the region, two-thirds of the total number in the country.
