re: #410 The Vicious Babushka

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Symbol of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, ca. 1873. This was the gang run by notorious censorship crusader and general bluenose Anthony Comstock. It was not a Muslim organization.
Comstock was eventually appointed a special postal inspector, with powers of arrest that he used enthusiastically against anyone he thought was sending indecent material through the mail. He was widely ridiculed by the literate element of the populace and press, but he was, and in many ways, still is, vastly influential.
I remember a cartoon from the period that shows a furious Comstock dragging a bedraggled woman into court by her hair, while he shouts at the judge, “Your honor, this woman gave birth to a naked baby!”