ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the rise of the madrasah in Hong Kong in the past decade by tracing the demographic expansion of South Asian ethnic minorities and socio-political transformations. In post-handover Hong Kong (post-1997), controversy over the rights of ethnic Muslim minorities has become a topic of concern in Chinese society. In the eyes of Hong Kong society and the Chinese government, Kasim Tuet Wai Sin was a prominent entrepreneur who played a significant role in the development of Islam in Hong Kong and a pioneer in promoting Chinese Islamic education. The two largest non-Chinese ethnic groups in Hong Kong were Indonesians and Filipinos, mostly comprising foreign domestic workers, each representing about 1.9 percent of the population. Contrary to mainstream perception about Indonesian Muslim domestic workers being more submissive and obedient to authority, they have been organising demonstrations and taking part in other forms of politicised activism since the large scale anti–World Trade Organization protests.
