I'm going to blame the drugs. All your sources look excellent and say 523 years later than my sources.
http://members.tripod.com/worldupdates/islamintheworld/id20.htm Islam in Malaysia by Hj. Ahmad Kamar Introduction The recognition of Islam in this part of the world has been a fact since C.E. 674 (forty-two years after the death of Prophet Muhammad, pbuh) when the Umayyad ruler Muawiyah was in power at Damascus. Two hundred years later in C.E. 878 Islam was embraced by people along the coast of Peninsular Malaysia including the port of Kelang which was a well-known trading centre.
http://mnlf.net/History/How%20Islam%20Came%20to%20Mindanao.htm This trade led to the Islamization of Malaysia, which gained momentum sometime after 878 C.E. when the Chinese rebel leader Huang Ch’ao drove out foreign merchants in Canton, China at a time when the Tang Dynasty was racked by a general political deterioration that led to its downfall. As a result, the Arab merchants were forced to settle in Kalah in the Malay Peninsula. This seaport then became the major intrepot of the Arab trade. It is this event of 878 that led the merchants to trade with other parts of Southeast Asia like Java, Borneo, Sulu and other parts of the Philippine archipelago. But the point remains, whether Pattani, Narathiwat and Yala had been Muslim since 878 or 1401, the fact remains that a mere 75 years under a gerrymandered-by-Britain Thai rule is infintesimal compared to their history as part of the Malay states. Ethnically, linguistically, socially and morally they belong to Malaysia. And yes, we differ in our outlook on how a country should treat outsiders. As an American, I am happy to live in a country which was set up as a melting pot, but sad that its founders committed genocide to achieve that goal. They were not my ancestors - mine came on the boat from Eastern Europe in the 1890's, fleeing from similar genocide.
However, I believe that a nation has a right to make its own rules about who gets to live there, and whether or not they will accept outsiders as full citizens. Despite the USA's melting pot reputation, it is still not possible for someone not born here to become President. Fine with me.
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http://members.tripod.com/worldupdates/islamintheworld/id20.htm
Islam in Malaysia
by
Hj. Ahmad Kamar
Introduction
The recognition of Islam in this part of the world has been a fact since C.E. 674 (forty-two years after the death of Prophet Muhammad, pbuh) when the Umayyad ruler Muawiyah was in power at Damascus. Two hundred years later in C.E. 878 Islam was embraced by people along the coast of Peninsular Malaysia including the port of Kelang which was a well-known trading centre.
http://mnlf.net/History/How%20Islam%20Came%20to%20Mindanao.htm
This trade led to the Islamization of Malaysia, which gained momentum sometime after 878 C.E. when the Chinese rebel leader Huang Ch’ao drove out foreign merchants in Canton, China at a time when the Tang Dynasty was racked by a general political deterioration that led to its downfall. As a result, the Arab merchants were forced to settle in Kalah in the Malay Peninsula. This seaport then became the major intrepot of the Arab trade. It is this event of 878 that led the merchants to trade with other parts of Southeast Asia like Java, Borneo, Sulu and other parts of the Philippine archipelago.
But the point remains, whether Pattani, Narathiwat and Yala had been Muslim since 878 or 1401, the fact remains that a mere 75 years under a gerrymandered-by-Britain Thai rule is infintesimal compared to their history as part of the Malay states. Ethnically, linguistically, socially and morally they belong to Malaysia.
And yes, we differ in our outlook on how a country should treat outsiders. As an American, I am happy to live in a country which was set up as a melting pot, but sad that its founders committed genocide to achieve that goal. They were not my ancestors - mine came on the boat from Eastern Europe in the 1890's, fleeing from similar genocide.
However, I believe that a nation has a right to make its own rules about who gets to live there, and whether or not they will accept outsiders as full citizens. Despite the USA's melting pot reputation, it is still not possible for someone not born here to become President. Fine with me.