How a religion is perceived is a manifestation of its people. Its funny when
@darksider calls us yellow skinned (clear racial undertones) and doesn't want to see Chinese in his country, we know how some individuals think very clearly, we are interested in your culture and people, we are just polite about it and want to think that despite this we can still cooperate. But that just fuels the issue on why China cannot be Islamic (core of my argument not bashing anything), you don't and will never view Chinese as truly muslim or truly acceptable to your people as if we were equal to Arabs even if we were all Muslim because at the core of Islam is Arabic culture, the centre of the Islamic world is Arabia, nothing wrong with it, it just goes to show you the influence and greatness of Arab culture. But China represents a separate civilisation and its people wants to be at the core of its own civilisation. Btw there is no doubt there is Arabization of Islam in recent years with the Burqa being promoted in China and funding from Saudi Arabia.
I do not condone Islam bashing. Nothing wrong with admiring another culture but refuse to become it and that refusal is not Islam bashing.
Chinese people have treated and will continue to treat muslim people (on an individual bases) like anyone else because we don't judge a person by their religion because we are not religiously focused people, please understand that. Here is an anecdote: In the central city of Kaifeng there was thousands of Safardic Jews in ancient times but they mostly disappeared, why? Because they didn't face any discrimination and mostly integrated into the Han ethnicity. Foreign religions can survive in China but can only have concentrations in the peripheries in the long term.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaifeng_Jews
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_China
History shows that any group that enters China eventually becomes Chinese and that is due to geography.
I only made my rants because i noticed a trend within some Pakistani members talking in the forum on how it would be great if one day China became Muslim and an Islamic state and I don't want their feeling to be hurt in the future, so I'm facing them with reality. China is not an friend of Islam nor is it an enemy of Islam, China doesn't care about religion the same way the west or middle east does. We are not against you because of religion nor do we love you for your religion. We will love you for who you are a human being, not religion.