Somewhere in the weekend paper was an article about the Islamic holiday stamp, Eid Greetings, issued by the Post Office this year. Some idiot head of some stamp-collecting society apparently wrote congress with a request to recall the stamps, overprint them with an image of the Twin Towers, and reissue them as a "true reflection" of the Islamic faith. As a protest against such ignorance, I went to the Post Office yesterday and bought these stamps for my Christmas cards (I don't usually get around to sending out Christmas cards - but this year may be the exception....you never know...it could happen!). The funny thing is that as I was checking out at the post office, the postal agent pointed out to me a couple of times that the symbol on the stamp "wasn't a Christmas tree" and that it was "an Islamic stamp"....I wonder what she thought when I bought them anyway!
Posted by jfer at December 11, 2001 11:26 AMI just ordered some EID Stamps too! I thought they were really pretty.
Posted by: mermu on December 12, 2001 10:23 AMDoes anyone remember who the organization was that was trying to do the overprint on the eid stamp? I remember seeing one on ebay but not since then. Thanks
Posted by: nadiah on July 29, 2003 6:25 PMThe article was in the Washington Post (Oct 18, 2003) and the organization was "Mekeel's and Stamps Magazine". You can find a reprint of the article here: http://www.icnacanada.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=49&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0