Editing Chams (section)

== 21st century ==
[[File:Cham Girl - Chau Doc - Vietnam.JPG|thumb|right|upright|Young Cham girl in [[Châu Đốc]]]]

[[File:Chams villages in An Giang province.jpg|thumb|Chams villages in [[An Giang Province]] ([[An Phú District|An Phú]], [[Châu Phú District|Châu Phú]], [[Châu Thành District, An Giang|Châu Thành district]], [[Tân Châu, An Giang|Tân Châu town]]).]]

The Chams in Vietnam are officially recognized by the Vietnamese government as one of 54 ethnic groups. There has also been wide-reaching recognition of the historical [[Champa Kingdom]].{{Citation needed|date=September 2022}}

An attempt at [[Salafist]] expansion among the Chams in Vietnam has been halted by Vietnamese government controls; however, the loss of the Salafis among Chams has been to the benefit of [[Tablighi Jamaat]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Féo|first=Agnès De|title=Les musulmans de Châu Đốc (Vietnam) à l'épreuve du salafisme|language=fr|trans-title=The Muslims of Châu Đốc (Vietnam) put to the test by Salafism|url=http://moussons.revues.org/976|journal=Recherches en Sciences Sociales sur l'Asie du Sud-Est|year=2009|issue=13–14|publisher=moussons|pages=359–372|doi= 10.4000/moussons.976|doi-access=free}}</ref>

There is evidence that some [[Acehnese people]] of [[Aceh]], [[Sumatra]], Indonesia are descendants of Cham refugees who fled after defeat by the Vietnamese polity in the 15th century.<ref name=leaves>{{Cite book|last=Andaya|first=Leonard Y.|title=Leaves of the same tree: trade and ethnicity in the Straits of Melaka|publisher=[[University of Hawaii Press]]|year=2008|page=[https://archive.org/details/leavesofsametree0000anda/page/44 44]|url=https://archive.org/details/leavesofsametree0000anda|url-access=registration|isbn=978-0-8248-3189-9}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Reid|first=Anthony|title=Verandah of violence: the background to the Aceh problem|publisher=[[NUS Press]]|year=2006|page=8|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PfF8Y9nZE3oC&pg=PA8|isbn=978-9971-69-331-2}}</ref>