brit, after having given this a little more thought...what strikes me as odd, is that these people have lived in the same community ,with their own places of worship, for about 20 odd years without problems.
How come, all of a sudden, there is trouble? I think this has very little, if nothing to do with religion...I think it has to do with land and money, as simple as that. Somebody is not happy and started to stir s h i t. And not surprisingly, the masses fall for it.
Happens in all kinds of places.

oh , and that lawyer, lol, lawyer, was scarily amusing waffling on about sha'ria, which he clearly knows nothing about.