Hey keyboard warrior, you and iajj don't speak for the rest of us. Now get your delusions of granduer out of your tiny head. You are your stupidty is reflecting very badly on the rest of us.
The Qing dynasty ruled southern Xinjiang through the intermediary of religious conservatives begs and mullahs. The mullahs enforced Islamic law, veils and dress. In exchange for complete control over the religious life of the Turkic Muslims (ancestors of Uyghurs) the mullahs, clerics and begs gave complete political loyalty to the Qing Emperor. You do not know crap about the history of the region.
The Qing was brutal to REBELS and INVADERS, they didn't target anyone for being "radical" religious or spare people for being moderate. You made up the crap about crushing "radical" Muslims. The Qing just brutally crushed ANY rebels against the state while they rewarded people loyal to the state.
If a so called "moderate" muslim (which just means Lax muslim) rebelled or invaded the Qing they would get crushed. But the deeply religious and conservative Islamic clergy (mullahs) were allowed religious freedom and to thrive during Qing rule.
The Qing's policy with different Hui sects had also nothing to do with being religious or not religious. Fanatically religious Muslims who were ordinary Sunnis or belonged to the Khufiyya Sufi sect, but who were loyal to the Qing were allowed religious freedom. However Jahriyya Sufism ("new teaching" in chinese) was banned and brutally crushed. Because the teaching of Jahriyya Sufis were different, in their sect they preached total loyalty to their leader and even viewed him as nearly infallible and almost as a prophet (which actually severely deviates from orthodox Islam).
Many fanatically religious Hui Generals like Ma Anliang fought for the Qing against rebels and separatists. The campaign to crush the Kokand invaders in Xinjiang was spearheaded by the religious Muslims Hua Decai and Cui Wei who were fighting for the Qing.
The rebellions in 1862 and 1895 were crushed by religious and very un-moderate Hui officers and soldiers who fought for the Qing. In fact, the religious Hui officers massacred the most rebels in the most brutal ways, not Han soldiers or officers.
The Hui officers who fought against the Eight Nation Alliance in the Boxer Rebellion were religious Muslims.
The Hui warlords like Ma Bufang were deeply religious. He sent fanatical soldiers (both religious Muslims and radical Qinghai Tibetan buddhists) to crush the Japanese and then sent more soldiers to crush the Soviet backed Uyghurs under Ehmetjan Qasim and fight the Soviets and Mongolian army.
The CPC has wisely allowed deeply religious Hui clerics to reestablish their followings in Ningxia in exchange for complete loyalty to the state. One Hui cleric even heard from Bin Laden and listned to other radical clerics but the CPC did nothing because he was a member of the Ningxia People's Congress and loyal to the government of China.
Faith flourishes in an arid wasteland | South China Morning Post
Religious Muslims like Ding Guodong and Mi Layin fought for the Ming cause and there were no Hui rebellions during the Ming. You made that crap up.
In fact the Uyghur separatism was started by REFORMERS (Jadidists) who wanted to challenge the traditional Islam and the conservative Islamic clergy.
