Riligions In Taiwan « Shihhenglin's Blog

Though Islam originated in the Arabian Peninsula , it had spread eastward to China as early as the 7th century AD. Muslim merchants married local Chinese women, creating a new Chinese ethnic group called the Hui people . Islam first reached Taiwan in the ... Since the 1980s, thousands of Muslims from Myanmar and Thailand, who are descendants of Nationalist soldiers who fled Yunnan as a result of the communist takeover, have migrated to Taiwan in search of a better life. ...