Muslims in China are allowed to have mosques, as markers of their communities. Most mosques had been destroyed during the Cultural Revolution, and was repaired in the 1980s by outside funding. But these mosques weren’t allowed to show anything that depicted that the Muslims within China had “outside” origins. While they may have superficially appeared to be as their Central Asian and Middle Eastern counterparts, they were missing key internal components. Muslims groups tend to remain rather divided. Islam is largely regulated by the government’s “Chinese Islamic Association”, and require that all mosques and madrassas be properly registered or be shut down otherwise .The 1980s saw a rise in Muslim groups putting emphasis on educating its people, ranging from young children to grown men and women, in Islamic texts and the Arabic language . Muslims also now enjoy being able to do hajj to Mecca and study abroad in Muslim dominated areas such as Malaysia, Central Asia or the Middle East . With it, however, has come issues, such as the spreading of radical Islamic thought that has spread within the groups in China’s
Muslims in China are allowed to have mosques, as markers of their communities. Most mosques had been destroyed during the Cultural Revolution, and was repaired in the 1980s by outside funding. But these mosques weren’t allowed to show anything that depicted that the Muslims within China had “outside” origins. While they may have superficially appeared to be as their Central Asian and Middle Eastern counterparts, they were missing key internal components. Muslims groups tend to remain rather divided. Islam is largely regulated by the government’s “Chinese Islamic Association”, and require that all mosques and madrassas be properly registered or be shut down otherwise .The 1980s saw a rise in Muslim groups putting emphasis on educating its people, ranging from young children to grown men and women, in Islamic texts and the Arabic language . Muslims also now enjoy being able to do hajj to Mecca and study abroad in Muslim dominated areas such as Malaysia, Central Asia or the Middle East . With it, however, has come issues, such as the spreading of radical Islamic thought that has spread within the groups in China’s