In letters to newspapers and call-in programmes on radio stations, and also among many journalists and political commentators, South Africa's Muslims are largely viewed as a monolith, whether they live in the working-class townships of Phoenix in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), the Cape Flats in the Western Cape, or Soweto in Gauteng; or the plush suburbs of Houghton in Gauteng or Westville in KZN. That they turn daily towards Makkah in prayer seems to be sufficient to conclude that Muslims constitute a unitary bloc. This, of course, is …