Caught in the crossfire
By Rashed
Chowdhury
In one episode,
entitled "Wheat Week", Ann Popowicz, the mayor of the fictional town of Mercy,
which stands amid enormous fields of wheat and maize in Saskatchewan, decides to
cancel that same Wheat Week, a popular annual festival showcasing the area's
agricultural production. Her aim is to use its budget to pay for a huge portrait
of herself. And to keep the residents of Mercy from getting angry with Her
Worship, Mayor Popowicz asks her assistant, the Muslim Sarah Hamoudi, to find
people who, for some reason, do not like the festival, so that the blame for
scrapping it can be placed on them. Sarah goes to a coffee shop and finds Babar
Siddiqui, a man famous among the Muslims of Mercy for finding something to
complain about in just about anything.
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