They do intermarry with Khmers and ethnic Chinese, and the non-Cham will then convert.I would say there is little intermarriage and limited interaction between the Khmer Cham and Khmer"Buddhist" and as such they are two very different species.
Is she a Cham Muslim?
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I have some very wealthy Chams in my neighborhood. There is no way I could tell they were Cham by appearance.From my lengthy conversations with one Cham friend, it seems there is a lot of exaggeration with regards to the Cham community becoming extremist in any way. I hate to generalize, but some Chams Ive known have been some of the smartest people Ive known here.
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I thought it might make her self-conscious or something, so I never quizzed her on her appearance.angsta wrote:Did you not think to ask her when you were spending all this time together? How come where you are from or what are you wearing in your hair didn't come up in general conversation?I hung with an awful lot the last time I stayed in Cambodia
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A year or two ago, I was holidaying on Langkawi Isl(Malaysia). It was 30 to 35C. There was a couple there, she had a full length burka with eye slits and he was in Tshirt & shorts. I'm not into muslim bashing, but does not that raise the anger level? I got the last laugh though. I managed to get eye contact with her and through the slit in the burka, there was a formation of a grimace, why we might ask?keeping_it_riel wrote:Chams are ethnically the same as everybody else here and in the past have practiced a kind of laid back islam-lite.
Unfortunately, the fact that they come from fairly poor communities has allowed Arabists a way in and now the Chams are in receipt of vast sums of Saudi/Malay cash they've started buying into hardcore Islamo-Fascist ideas. It's very sad. Ten years ago, the Cham women would be wearing very simple, light silk knotted scarves that just covered the back of their heads. Now many of the are wearing Arab style hijabs or in some cases burkas so only the eyes are showing.
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