By Antonio D. French
Filed Tuesday, January 10 at 7:25 AM
An interesting article appeared in today's Post-Dispatch. Aisha Sultan's A-1 story on the city's effort to shut down a makeshift Muslim place of worship was interesting, not just for highlighting our local government's continued effort to squash anything the less-than-rich try to do to change the culture of this city, and not just because the article fails to mention the location of the prayer house (the address of the southside house is included in the caption of the photo).
The most interesting part of the story comes in the last graph when Ald. Phyllis Young (7th Ward) tries to explain why the city picked Nov. 3 to sent the Muslim group a letter notifying them that they had to shut down the house of prayer. That date just happens to be the day of Eid al-Fitr, marking the end of Ramadan.
"No one is familiar enough with their religious holidays to purposely send a letter at that time," said the alderman, apparently taking a page from the Bush Administration's playbook and counting on ignorance as the best defense of stupidity.
Another interesting thing is that over on Page c-1, the Post has a story on how Muslim-bashing is in fashion now.
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