More evidence it was chinese that converted malays to islam.

[syed putra]

 

[GOD IS MY DOG]

becoz the Chinese scared the Malays will eat too much pork also.................drive up prices...............

 

[laksaboy]

Nonsense. The natives usually adopted whichever religion their ruling class subscribed to.

 

[glockman]

knn, everything you blame the chinese. If I didn't know better, I would say you're racist!

 

[Willamshakespear]

1. The Arabs, mostly of Sunni sect, saw how detrimental to Arabs that the sectarian wars between the Shias and Sunnis were, and some made use of their knowledge of building ships since Phoenician times, to escape from strives from their desert lands into the lush fertile valleys of S.E. Asia such as Indonesia in the 10th century, long before even Cheng Ho, probably a Sunni himself or his ancestors, fled to China themselves....


2. In the lush fertile valleys of S.E Asia, it was the Cholas, of Indian descent, that ruled much of such regions in the 7th century, when they too, fled the wars of India, leading followers to a better life in little inhabited regions here.

Notably, it was the Indians whom fled from India, came here and created a great empire - the Srivijaya Empire - for CENTURIES. in Indonesia with its capital in Palembang.


3. However, with the influx of Sunni Arab migrants there, they introduced philosophies of life, than the often unmeritocratic way of life that the Indians had introduced, especially with their CASTE systems, and eventually, thru one converted from Polynesian birth to a Sunni Islamic leader - Hayam Wuruk -whom founded the MAJAHAPIT Empire, overthrew the Srivijaya Empire by the 13th century....


4. Even the founder of Malaysia - Parameswara, then later known under the Muslim name of Iskandar Shah, was of royal birth and member of the Indian Srivijaya Empire, whom fled from the Majapahits to Malacca, realized the power of religion, and sought the help of China under the great Ming Dynasty Emperor, Hongwu, who himself overthrow the brutal Islamic Mongols Yuan dynasty, helped King Iskandar to defend and create a distinct Empire from the Indonesian Majapahits....


5. Under the protection of China Emperor Hongwu, a progressive leader, there was freedom of religion. Each can practice their religion so as it does not harm or hurt others, as Emperor Hongwu had learnt while leading Han Chinese against the cruel Mongols. The Muslim Cheng Ho was chosen as the Emperor was well informed of what religions and more that was practiced in other lands, so as to gain support, tributes, economic trade and more for China....


6. The China Emperor even gave his own daughter, a princess, who is NOT and never will be a Muslim, born with a PRIVILEDGED background for decades over a huge landmass, to King Iskandar Shah - a mere provincial back then but would have potential to rule a slightly more landmass, to seal the deal, along with an ENTIRE entourage of China Ming Dynasty officials - handmaidens, servants, scholars, military troops and leaders, engineers, etc, etc whom were NOT Muslims. The China Princess was not and never alone....


7. Eventually, S.E. Asia and even the Middle East grew and prospered, and progressed....but sadly until 1979 when the SHIA Arabic or Arab influenced Ayatollahs of Iran began reviving their ambitions for Islamic Supremacy.... to drive Islam regressively back to the stone age in an attempt to start from the beginning....when Sunnis had already evolved, slow but steadily for centuries....more so evident today by Sunni Leaders of Nations...



Thus, who were the ones whom had COLONIZED S.E. Asia Malays and Indonesians whom are of Polynesian descent, STOLE the most precious commodity of life - one's mind, thru BLIND FAITH in a twisted and taken out of context that is NOT what the Divine sent Last prophet Muhammad had taught, except by some such as the enlightened Sunnis whom had fled desert lands, sectarian wars, and poverty to lush and fertile valleys of S.E. Asia, to build better lives and saw progress till 1979 ?