This is one of those crazy things that seems to always happen - whenever Israel comes up, there's an abundance of people saying crazy shit about Islam.

This is likely because the terror state of Israel is so hard to defend on its own - you have to proactively dehumanize its opponents to give it a chance at legitimacy.

A survey released last month from the Anthropology Group on Islamic and Arab Contexts — an organisation based at the University of São Paulo — found that reports of harassment among Muslim Brazilians have been widespread since the war began.

An estimated 70 percent of respondents said they knew someone who experienced religious intolerance since October 7, when the Palestinian group Hamas launched an attack on southern Israel, killing 1,140 people.

‘Outraged’: Brazilian Muslims face growing Islamophobia over Gaza war

A survey released last month suggests approximately 60 percent of Brazilian Muslims experienced religious intolerance.

^{Eduardo Campos Lima (Al Jazeera)}