We China always have loyal muslims stand beside us cleansing those muslim terrorists/separatists minority.
We will always make sure that we have active control of muslim population so that it won't cause any problem for generations to come.
We have many options. Well, I am indeed sorry for india though, with a muslim population at least 15%.
We will always make sure that we have active control of muslim population so that it won't cause any problem for generations to come.
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There is a huge difference between Muslim situation in India and China. China has never been ruled by Muslims, whereas South Asia had Muslims as a dominant ruling force from 1200 to 1700. Maratha and Sikhs fought back since then, but they could never take Bengal (then included Indian states of Bihar, Orissa and West Bengal in addition to Bangladesh). From 1700 onward, the British came and took over South Asian regions one by one, starting with Bengal in 1757. So we in Bangladesh landmass (unlike Punjab in Pakistan and most of India, who lost to the Sikhs or Marathas) had a continuous Muslim rule from 1204 to 1757 and then we lost to the British and went under British rule. There were some looters and invaders like Timur Lang who killed a lot of Hindu's back in 14th century. In a way he used Islam to mainly loot and plunder. But the Muslim rulers who stayed here and settled down were mostly tolerant and left the Hindu's alone. Most of them had little interest to convert local people. The conversion happened mostly by Sufi saints, who lived among people as missionary and tried to help people with their daily lives.
The ungrateful Hindutva nationalists today created a make believe story that our "invader" ancestors abused them and converted people by force, while it was the complete opposite, as is recognized by mostly impartial Western historians, who are currently doing research on history of South Asia.
In 1947, because we found out that they are unwilling to share power, there was lack of trust and our leaders decided not to live under a Hindu majority hegemony. That is how there was partition, Pakistan etc.
The other difference between India and China is that India has about 15% or 180 million Muslims, while unofficial figures are higher than 200 million:
'US feels India has 180m Muslims' - The Times of India
Muslim World: Blog on Population of Muslims: India's Muslim population above 200 million or 20 crores!
JUSTICE for 400 Million MUSLIMS in India (400 million is absurd, but the real number is probably around 200 - 220 million, now the Hindutva plan is to declare 30-50 million of them as illegal Bangladeshi and push them out to Bangladesh)
As for the Ummah, this is deeply rooted in Islamic culture, tradition and consciousness, but it is mostly a romantic nostalgia for a perfect past utopia (the 4 Caliphs of Rashdoun):
Caliphate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nation states are what we have in 21st century. Most majority Muslim states work with this nation state entity and will not even support any kind of Islamic union or grouping. The only thing we have so far in terms Muslim unity is an association of Muslim majority nations, OIC, which is not very effective and there is little chance of this turning into a major political force:
Organisation of Islamic Cooperation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Having said that, Muslims do feel themselves as a people, not as much as the Jewish people, but something much more than Christians for whom it is just a common religion they follow. This has to do with how Islam spread, by traders, Sufi missionaries and soldiers that went to different regions of the world, married into local population and created new Muslim communities. So there is some genetic connection as well, not for the whole Muslim community, but mainly limited for the elite and influential part of any Muslim community. So there is Arab influence in South East Asia and Africa and most other places in Asia have Turkic, Turko-Mongol and Persian influence (including among Muslims in China such as Hui). In every Hui community you will find very old graves of foreign ancestors, this is true for most of Muslim world outside Arabian peninsula.
Most normal Muslims, which would be 99% of the Muslim world realize that a Ummah or Khilafah state is just an impossible utopian dream and not achievable. Only some extremist brainwashed moron Muslims believe in this nonsense. The reason why you have so many foreign fighters in places like Syria is not because of their belief in Ummah, but out of sectarian sympathy for the local oppressed people and because there are people who are financing these efforts.
Bottom line, Muslims of the world, except for the ones in NATO and EU countries (Turkey, Balkans etc.), look towards China as their present or future ally against an abusive West who have plundered and fragmented our lands for centuries. In South Asia, 500 million Muslims look towards China also as a balancing force against a rising Hindutva threat.
Most of the 10 million Uighurs are loyal Chinese citizens. A few hundreds or thousands separatists/terrorists, are insignificant in the bigger scheme of the Muslim world. I believe most 1.6 billion Muslims will be with the Chinese and would like to see these terrorists eliminated, just like we would like to see extremist terrorists eliminated in Pakistan or in any other place as well, regardless of the religion or country of origin of the terrorists.
We have many options. Well, I am indeed sorry for india though, with a muslim population at least 15%.
and you should be ...because you have no other option.