Deliberate ignorance beyond ridiculous

Here are a couple of hypothetical situations. Okay, they're more caricatures, but that's because they're supposed to be over the top.

Jacob Isaac Steinberg, wearing a yarmulke and a long dark beard, carrying a Torah, protesting in front of a butcher shop that sells ham. He departs around dusk on Friday for his walk home, muttering about his chutzpah and mother's matza balls.

Mary-Elizabeth Shanahan, with her six children under nine (Anthony, Joseph, Moira, Kathleen, Patrick, and Sean) in tow, arrested in front of an abortion clinic for disturbing the peace. A rosary is found in her pocket when she arrives at the police station.

Does a newspaper really need to tell you the religious background of these imaginary individuals? Is there anyone reading this without a clue?

But the New York Post has to brazenly demonstrate its ignorance in the conclusion of this little blurb. Is it dhimmitude or stupidity?