[caww]

Authorities began taking down mosque domes a few years ago in an effort to remove “Saudi and Arabic influence”

[Cronos]

I’ve been listening to “the history of China” podcast — and I strongly recommend it -https://thehistoryofchina.wordpress.com/

I didn’t know much about China’s history before listening to it - and it is a detailed yet engrossing listen.

To the point here — China has violently suppressed any non-Huaxhi / Han influences for centuries. It did so against Buddhism and against Christianity.

They want to sinicize Islam - but the thing is that Islam, unlike Christianity, is intimately linked to one ethnicity, Hejaz Arabs. Mosques must have minarets. Domes maybe not,
but minarets to call out to prayer is a must.

And, the Saudis have been instrumental in pushing the view that any non-hejaz Arab influence is shirk.

[ridesthemiles]

McArthur was right........