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Never heard of this, but ok.
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That's like people saying Barack Obama has some
Muslim family members (which he does) and has an Arabic name,
therefore, he must be a Muslim! 
Moving on.
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If Zhu Yuanzhang was a Muslim, it would have been
painfully obvious in court records. For example, where are the
records stating that he made periodic prayers towards Mecca during
each day of his rule? Or that he was a proponent of Sharia Law in
the Ming law code? Aside from the weak argument about wine which
sounds coincidental.
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I've never read any scholar's work mentioning that
she was a Muslim, and I've read a good amount of works on the Ming
Dynasty.
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The association of each dynasty with a color and Wu Xing 五行 phase
has nothing to do with Islam, but has everything to do with Chinese
cosmological theory. Once again, a phony argument.
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Praises and admittance of Islam were also made by Tang, Song, and
Yuan emperors too; does that make them Muslim? Again, a phony
argument that is used to fit someone's agenda.
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You do realize that this occurred under the reign of Yongle, not
Hongwu? Just to clear that up.
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Are you kidding me? So did the Tang, Song, and Yuan
before them. Again, does this make the Tang, Song, and Yuan
emperors somehow Muslim? These arguments are so pathetic!
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That is an absurd argument, considering how the Ming used Guo
Shoujing's 13th century calendar (i.e. 授時曆), and by the early 17th
century, reformed their calendar due to European influence of the
Gregorian Calendar at the Ming court.
I think this thread should be closed, along with threads that say
the outerspace aliens built the Egyptian pyramids or that Big Foot
roams the American northwest or that a sea monster lurks in Loch
Ness, Scotland.
Just a thought,
Eric
http://www.chinahistoryforum.com/index.php?/topic/30276-was-zhu-yuanzhang-a-muslim/