It’s so. Five of my former students here in Cape were Muslims. Four of them were the kids of a black American doctor who married a woman from Malaysia and one was the daughter of a Pakistani PhD at the local university. Besides Muslim students there used to a restaurant here run by a Muslim as well. Not a lot—dozens, not hundreds.
They guy who set fire to the center previously did time for throwing rocks at it. The “center” is a two-story building that used to be a neighborhood grocery store. The upstairs part had been partitioned into several rooms. Firefighters who worked the fire found themselves in what looked to them to be a maze. It is fortunate for the arsonist that no one died in the fire.
Hopefully, with or without “hate charges”, he will be away for a very long time.