I guess it is not the religion of Islam that the Chinese cannot accept. As someone point out, there are over 30 millions of Muslims in China and many of their Mosques looks more like Chinese temples than Islamic Masjids. The Chinese Muslims are also experts in Qigong and wushu and are good at Chinese and Arabic calligraphy. Islam is no more stricter or intolerant than Christanity who has almost a quarter of chinese professing in Singapore and many more in Indonesia, China and overseas Chinese communities throughout the world. Some fundamentalist Christianity like CHC and NCC which congregation are almost all chinese totally prohibited many chinese customs, traditions and culture, including ancestor worship. In this case, the chinese should have no problem converting into Islam.
I guess it is the Malay rulers and the government itself who intentionally allow the chinese to freely continue their own cultural practices so that they can become a distinct group to use as a scapegoat when politics didn''t go their way. I had a chinese friend from Malaysia who was interetsed in Islam but he was discouraged because he was a chinese and he eat pork... and the Malays friends instead encourage him to go back to his own roots and culture! In a way, the govt sees Islam as a separate entiity for themselves only and the chinese are not allow to intrude this sacred space . This was in the early 70s when the chinese elsewhere was encourage to assimiliate into their countries of adoption but Msia didn't.
It is thus very unfair for the BN and Malay govt to put blame on the chinese whenever there are problems in the country...accusing the innocent chinese of disloyal,selfish,chauvinist and all sorts of accusations. Now extremists in his part have accuse PM Najib of making the Chinese even more distinctive by offering them alot of incentives to preserve their own culture, language and religion. In fact, Najib is the only Msian PM who has been very inclusive and very friendly to the chinese, even attending their temple events, wearing the chinese gua during CNY and speaking in Mandarin. He also promised govt grants for the chinese community build more chinese schools.!!. Thus, he is responsible for making the chinese community further away from being part of the Msian identitiy . As mentioned, even Spore as a chinese state do away with these but making English as a medium of communication and chinese schools and chinese dialects were disallowed so that a there is a real Singapore identity.
The extremists should not be trading barbs at the chinese community when the problems they faced today is their own doing. Their intention of making the chinese community distinct create the very problems that they are nowing trying to ironically blame the chinese whch is totally uncalled for.It should follow the other SEA countries such as Thailand and Indonesia to completely assimiliate the chinese instead of intentionally creating this distinct separate community for poking now and then. It is also good for the assimiliated chinese who by now have no distinct chinese name , culture or language to allow them to be singled out for condemnation whenever the govt feels the need to do so. The assimiliated Chinese , as like Indonesia will by then treated equally as everybody there is no more excuse for a Bumiputra policy for the so call indigenous people.