Vietnam is located in Southeast Asia and extends to the south of China in the form of a long narrow S-shaped curve. This long, thin country curves in an elegant S-shape down the eastern side of the Indo-Chinese peninsula. It is bordered to the west by Laos and Cambodia. Its capital is Hanoi, and its largest city is Ho Chi Minh City (formerly known as Saigon), which was the capital of South Vietnam before the Vietnamese unity.

Islam was introduced to Vietnam with its arrival to this area, in the fourth century AH by Muslim merchants, like most areas in Southeast Asia.

In modern times, Vietnamese Muslims suffer from harsh conditions. They are denied the right to hold high-ranking positions or join the army. Things became even worse after the communists took the reins of power in Vietnam in 1395 AH. The persecution of Muslims increased; as the Vietnamese already harbored hatred towards Islam, in addition to the fact that they became communists. Hostility against Muslims was doubled and the massacres and persecution doubled as well.

The city of Huế witnessed a terrible massacre by the Communists, where they spent twenty days burying thousands of Muslims and others who were buried alive. The Huế massacre was a large-scale and horrible massacre that was committed by the Vietnamese Communists. The frightened people of Huế fled for their lives. Hundreds of thousands fled from their homes out of fear of the horrific massacres. They fled to other countries and thus the number of Muslims in Vietnam decreased considerably.

After tightening their grip on the country, the Communists resorted to a horrific technique of torture. They established seventy giant jail cells scattered around the country. They called them "Criminal rehabilitation and reconstruction centers". They imprisoned thousands of Muslims and did not release their victims until they were certain that they would not survive for more than a few days, so that the victim’s family would prepare the funeral according to their local traditions.

The communists took over mosques and Islamic schools and turned them into health units and local administrations. They only kept the Great Mosque of Saigon so that the politicians who visited the country would pray in it. They wanted to show the world that they foster religious freedom in the country.

Meanwhile, they did not allow Muslims to perform their prayers in this mosque in a normal way. They conditioned that the Friday prayers should not be held in the mosque except after obtaining prior permission from the police and registering the names of the attendees and their addresses. This authorization must be obtained on a weekly basis. They also arrested the Imaams of the mosques on the grounds that they refused to put up the image of the Chinese Marxist revolutionary leader "Hồ Chí Minh" in their mosques, and they killed them all.

As a result of the consecutive decades of persecution and torture of Muslims in the royal and communist eras, the conditions of Muslims deteriorated significantly and the kingdom of Champa vanished completely and became history. The bonds between Muslims in Vietnam and between them and the rest of the Muslim world were severed. The Communists deliberately cut them off from the world; in line with the common Communist policy of withholding news and information about the internal affairs of the countries they control.
The inevitable result of these policies was that the Muslims fell prey to ignorance of their great religion. Mosques are only open on Fridays and the Imaams hold the Friday Prayer on behalf of the people. They also fast the month of Ramadhaan on behalf of the people. Vietnamese Muslims, mainly old people, have some written short chapters of the Quran. Young Muslims who received a modern education do not think about religion at all. They do not know anything about Islam except what the Communists say about it; that it is only a set of old traditions of the ancients and the opium of the people.

As for the social conditions, poverty prevails in the Vietnamese Muslim community to a horrific degree. Vietnamese Muslims are so deprived that they can not afford the shrouds for their dead! Women can not find clothes to cover their bodies properly. Many Vietnamese Muslims live in places that are not even suitable for cattle. Vietnamese Muslims refuse to enroll their children in government schools because they are aware of the communist policy of obliterating the Islamic identity and faith. They favor ignorance over disbelief and atheism, which is the inevitable result for those who go to such schools.
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