Repression under the Qing Lin Chang-kuan, a professor of Arabic at National Chengchih University and author of The Development of Chinese Islam and Its Activities, argues that there is nothing innately conservative about Chinese Islam that rules out the spread of the religion among Chinese. Instead, he says, the restrained character of Islam in China is a product of severe repression in the Qing dynasty.
著有《中國回教之發展及其運動》的政大阿語系教授林長寬說，中國回教徒不積極傳道並不完全是基於保守的性格，因為這種保守的習性，有部分也是受到清朝政府強力打壓的影響。