Guys in bow ties trashing liquor stores
What do you make of this strange story from Oakland?
Is it a well-intentioned but misguided effort to clean up some vice in blighted neighborhoods? If so, will the same group also try to put drug-dealers and lottery vendors out of business?
Is it an attempt by fundamentalists to impose Islamic law within the Muslim community? If so, what's next -- beating Muslim women who venture out with their heads uncovered or otherwise dressed immodestly?
Or just an act of resentment against an ethnic group -- Yemenis -- that has nearly cornered the liquor business in African-American neighborhoods?
I'm stumped.
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