White football fans celebrated an openly Muslim player despite the league’s history of bigotry

Evidence

Everywhere Mohamed Salah played, fans like the majority-white group exploded in song in reverence of the soccer wunderkind bearing the name of Islam’s final messenger and prophet. It was funny, refreshing, but most of all, a new song in a league historically marred by racism and bigotry. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1067

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: the phenomenon where adored individual Muslims get absorbed into fandom cultures while structural Islamophobia persists — Salah worship vs. anti-Muslim violence.