Online anti-Muslim backlash collides with different reality in South Africa
‘No widespread Islamophobia’Thembisa Fakude, a South African political analyst and journalist who is Muslim, told Al Jazeera that fears of widespread Islamophobia are being overstated.”He acknowledges anti-Muslim rhetoric online, but argues that it should not automatically be interpreted as evidence that South African society itself has become Islamophobic.
South African Muslim leaders give higher estimates, with some putting the country’s Muslim population at between two million and five million people.
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