Crescent Moon Over Southside

Now if we move some one hundred miles south-west of the turmoil in Fredericksburg we come to Charlotte county, Virginia in the Southside. A rural area whose chief claim to historical fame is being the home of nineteenth century congressman and first class eccentric John Randolph. Now the area is home to something else entirely, the compound of the Moslems of America near the community of Red House.
Gates of Vienna has give us plenty of background in the past on the compound an its occupants, and now recounts its efforts to draw some critical attention to the group from the local media. The local paper, the Southside Messenger, had recently written up the Moslems of America in a "puff piece" and getting them to reconsider their views becomes a Kafkaesque adventure.
The case of the "Utah Shooter" and the curious uncuriousity of the Deseret News springs to mind.
It seems that when faced with followers of the Koran the celebrated inquisitiveness of the American reporter goes flying out the window.

By way of a little irony the area is represented in Congress by Virgil Goode.