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From: martillo@mit-athena.ARPA (Joaquim Martillo)
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Subject: Re: World Population Control (For Michael Fisher)
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Date: Mon, 27-Aug-84 20:34:23 EDT
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I  do  not have the time to comment on most of the silliness of Fisher's
reply but I would like to correct a major factual error.

Almost none of the Chinese who live in Malaysia, Indonesia, or  Singapur
for  that matter are Muslim.  The Chinese of these countries are Han are
practice a mixture of Confucianism, Buddhism,  and  Daoism.   There  are
Chinese-speaking  Muslims  but  they live in North-Western China and are
ethnically distinct being partially of Turkic background.  They are  the
Hui.   I  know  that Hui like any other Muslims who come to Malaysia are
officially designated as  Malays  and  are  subjected  to  none  of  the
official discrimination to which non-Muslims are subjected.