”Islamophobia to blame” for Cape Town mosque attacks

Authorities in South Africa say Islamophobia fuelled two separate attacks on mosques in Cape Town, where Muslim centres of worship were broken into and defiled with pig’s blood and a pig’s snout. The Western Cape provincial government said Monday’s attack, in which the blood was found smeared over the walls of a mosque in Kalk […]

Authorities in South Africa say Islamophobia fuelled two separate attacks on mosques in Cape Town, where Muslim centres of worship were broken into and defiled with pig’s blood and a pig’s snout.
The Western Cape provincial government said Monday’s attack, in which the blood was found smeared over the walls of a mosque in Kalk Bay was linked to an earlier attack on a mosque in Simon’s Town, some 15km away, where a pig’s snout was left on the entrance gate.
“Both incidents made calculated use of Islamophobic methods,” the government said in a statement.