Editing Hui people (section)

== Relations with other religions ==
Some Hui believed that Islam was the true religion through which [[Confucianism]] could be practiced, superior to "barbarian" religions, and accused Buddhists and Daoists of "[[heresy]]", like most other Confucian scholars.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Lipman |first=Jonathan N. |date=July 1984|title=Ethnicity and Politics in Republican China: The Ma Family Warlords of Gansu |journal=Modern China |publisher=Sage Publications, Inc. |volume=10 |issue=3 |page=297|jstor=189017 |doi=10.1177/009770048401000302 |s2cid=143843569 }}</ref> Among the many Muslims in pre-Chinese [[Lhasa]], the [[Qinghai Lake|Kokonor]] Hui community was permitted to maintain the abattoirs outside the confines of the [[Lingkhor|girdling pilgrims' circuit]] of the city.<ref>[[Heinrich Harrer]], '' [[Seven Years in Tibet]],'' [[Rupert Hart-Davis|Rupert Hart-Davis Publisher]] London 1953 p.157.</ref>

Muslim general [[Ma Bufang]] allowed [[polytheist]]s to openly worship and [[Christian missionary|Christian missionaries]] to station themselves in Qinghai. Ma and other high-ranking Muslim generals attended the [[Kokonuur Lake]] ceremony where the God of the Lake was worshipped, and during the ritual, the Chinese national anthem was sung, participants bowed to a portrait of [[Kuomintang]] party founder [[Sun Yat-sen]], and to the God of the Lake. Offerings were given to Sun by the participants, including Muslims.{{sfn|Bulag|2002|p=51}} Ma Bufang invited Kazakh Muslims to attend the ceremony.{{sfn|Bulag|2002|p=52}} Ma Bufang received audiences of Christian missionaries, who sometimes preached the [[Gospel]].<ref>{{cite book|url={{google books |plainurl=y |id=NrtBAAAAYAAJ}}|title=Journal of the American Water Works Association, Volume 39, Issues 1–6|author=American Water Works Association |year=1947|publisher=The Association|page=24|access-date=28 June 2010}} Alternate URL: {{cite book|url={{google books |plainurl=y |id=eUAhAQAAIAAJ}}|title=Journal of the American Water Works Association, Volume 39, Issues 1–6 |author=American Water Works Association|year=1947|publisher=The Association|page=24|access-date=28 June 2010}}</ref> His son [[Ma Jiyuan]] received a silver cup from the missionaries.<ref>{{Cite journal |title=The Divine Word Missionaries in Gansu, Qinghai and Xinjiang, 1922–1953: A Bibliographic Note| journal=Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society| volume=19| pages=59–82| year=2008| last1=Horlemann| first1=B.| s2cid=162397522| doi=10.1017/S135618630800905X}}</ref>

The Muslim [[Ma Zhu]] wrote "Chinese religions are different from Islam, but the ideas are the same."<ref>{{cite book|url={{google books|id=1UJwAAAAMAAJ|plainurl=y|page=8}}|title=Discrimination, corruption and moral decline: the historical background of the Muslim Hui uprising in Yunnan, China, 1856–1873 |first=Jianping|last=Wang|year=1995|publisher=The Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, The Hebrew University|page=8|access-date=28 June 2010}}</ref>

During the [[Panthay Rebellion]], the Muslim leader [[Du Wenxiu]] said to a Catholic priest: "I have read your religious works and I have found nothing inappropriate. Muslims and Christians are brothers."<ref>{{cite book| first=David G. |last=Atwill| title=The Chinese sultanate: Islam, ethnicity, and the Panthay Rebellion in southwest China, 1856–1873| url={{google books|id=Da2M_viEclEC|plainurl=y |page=167}}| access-date=28 June 2010| year=2005| publisher=Stanford University Press| isbn=0-8047-5159-5| page=167}}</ref>