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… Now, you could argue whether being a Muslim is actually a religion, or is it a nationality way of  life, or cult or whatever you want to call it.”  -GOP Lt. Governor Ron Ramsey, Tennessee, on the campaign trail in Chattanooga, July 2010.
 ”They are not a religion. They are a political, militaristic group.”  – Bob Shelton, 76, Nashville, TN
            The plans by a Muslim-American group to exercise their constitutional right to build a cultural center a few blocks away from “Ground Zero” in New York City, the site of the former World Trade Center, has been the subject of a great deal of handwringing and teeth gnashing from self-described American “patriots.”  They claim it’s not about religious bigotry, because it is “insensitive” and in “bad taste” to build a “mosque” on that “hallowed ground,” among all the gin joints and strip clubs within a few blocks of Ground Zero.  

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New York strip club Scores seeks to open inside Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort in Atlantic City
By ERIC SCOTT CAMPBELL and SCOTT CRONICK Staff Writers | Posted: Tuesday, August 31, 2010
With Starlight Events’ petition detailing what the club would offer
A famous New York strip club company has applied to become the only one to do business in an Atlantic City casino.
If the proposed Scores-Atlantic City location in the Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort obtains the Casino Control Commission’s blessing, however, New Jersey law will require the entertainers to exercise more modesty than they do in Manhattan.
Starlight Events LLC applied Friday to operate a 9,800-square-foot gentlemen’s club in Stage Deli’s former location on the casino’s second floor. The club would serve alcohol to customers, who could watch entertainers dance and strip from evening wear to underwear over the course of three songs.

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Wild About Harry
Harry Nilsson pioneered his own special genre of the rock ’n’ roll bender. It often began with a phone call at an odd hour and ended, in the case of Micky Dolenz of the Monkees, three days later at a massage parlor in Phoenix. Robin Williams, whose 1980 film ‘‘Popeye’’ was scored by Nilsson, covers his face when recalling a similar spree with the songwriter: ‘‘Did I really? A weed whacker?!’’
There’s no end of booze and drugs — and famous friends — in John Scheinfeld’s documentary ‘‘Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin’ About Him?),’’ which will open on Sept. 10 in New York. But the film is more than a catalog of the singer’s exploits, the extent of which almost certainly contributed to his early death, in 1994 at age 52. Randy Newman compares him to Schubert. ‘‘John loved him, too’’ Yoko Ono says.

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There is growing Islamophobia engulfing the country combined with a rise in xenophobia, http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2011798,00.html. The Islamophobia has been unleashed as a result of the unfortunate controversy over the Islamic center and mosque that will be built within two blocks of Ground Zero. Much has been written about this controversy, but there has been scant commentary about its impact on immigration and immigrants. It is time to step into this lacuna, which we do so in this blog post to link this Islamophobia to the xenophobia against immigrants. We are especially motivated to write after an immigrant Bangladeshi cabbie in New York last week was almost stabbed to death after the passenger, his assailant, realized he was a Muslim. More recently, arson has been suspected at a proposed construction site for a mosque and Islamic cultural center in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Strangely, anti-Islamic sentiment, which was largely absent after September 11, has suddenly flared in New York City after the controversy surrounding the proposed Islamic center, even though two strip clubs, liquor stores and criminal defense attorneys who represent suspected terrorists thrive withi …

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He’s a fan of beautiful vistas, golf and preppy clothes. He hates condoms. He prefers strippers, skankbags and girls with bizarre names. So, Tiger Woods is sure to have a great time in New York City.
According to a disturbing rumor in US Weekly, the wood of Tiger will be seen chasing Carrie Bradshaw wannabes around Manhattan for the foreseeable future. The gossip rag quotes an unidentified neighbor of Woods in the downtown area, claiming the golfer introduced himself and said he’d be sticking around … and sticking it to any girlfriends the man might bring around.
Woods has been laying low since his split with Elin Nordegren, playing golf in Jersey this week and only ordering three hookers from Bada Bing! (instead of his customary four).
All kidding aside, we do have some hot tips for him to get the most out of his New York experience. Keep reading for our recommended list of activities for Tiger’s wood.

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According to court papers, the defendant—identified in court papers only as CW-1, but “outed” as Jude Buoneto by McMahon—began working for the government in 2008, and the sex trafficking allegedly happened in 2009. Originally, reported the Times, the government said the trafficking ring had operated from 2008 to early 2009, but it has since changed its allegation and now says the ring was active for three months in the summer of 2009.
McMahon told the paper that no matter when the alleged crimes took place, the government should not have let his client continue to commit them, saying, “They let this thing get away from them a little bit.”
Buoneto has a history of sexual violence, according to McMahon, who said his client raped one girl and sexually abused another in the 1990s, and once ran a brothel in Brooklyn with his mother. Prosecutors say that when Buoneto was 19, he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor offenses involving injuring a child under 17, and also to sexual abuse in the third degree. They say he will be called to testify, and claim he has information on the Gambino family beyond the trafficking charges.

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Whereas under customary law lands may be held by women (as among the Minangkabau in West Sumatra) or equally by men and women (as among most Dayak peoples in Borneo), when they get formal titles as smallholders these are vested in male heads of households,” the report states. “The marginalization of women has been cited as a cause of the increased instances of prostitution in oil palm areas. According to the Indonesian Ministry of Women’s Empowerment, the impact of oil palm plantations on rural women can include: an increase in time and effort to carry out domestic chores through the loss of access to clean and adequate water and fuel wood and an increase in medical costs due to loss of access to medicinal plants obtained from gardens and forests; loss of food and income from home gardens and cropping areas; loss of indigenous knowledge and socio-cultural systems and; an increase in domestic violence against women and children due to increased social and economic stresses.

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So what makes for hallowed ground? The New York financial district is apparently too holy for a mosque, but not for strip clubs and bodegas and the rest of the features of a Manhattan neighborhood. (Nor, for that matter, does it seem to be too sacred for the financiers themselves. Aren’t they the real bad neighbors?) And Palin and Beck and I could all agree that the Lincoln Memorial has transcendent symbolic importance. But the way it’s important to me and the way it’s important to them are different. If they thought their Saturday rally was about using the legacy of Lincoln and King to “restore honor” to America, it seemed to me to be about exploiting that legacy to smuggle in a different meaning about our history and national character. In other words, sacred places aren’t sacred in the same way to everyone. They’re contested terrain; when we see significance in a patch of dirt, we’re saying something about the meaning of past events there. And when we say something about the meaning of past events, we are always, truly, arguing about the present.

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On that day, he stole our American innocence. Later, George Bush delivered (to the dustbin of history) our sense of safety and security. Instead of avenging our national insult, he used the bombing as an opportunity to conquer an oil producing nation. He devoted ten times the military resources to taking over oil wells that he did to killing a modern mass murderer. His greed delivered victory to Bin Laden.
Clearly, the venomous opposition to the Park 51 Muslim community center in Manhattan isn’t about what’s being argued. The notion that this neighborhood is sacred ground is, well, simply contrived. It’s not even at “Ground Zero.” You can’t even see the World Trade Center construction site from the building. It is in a neighborhood of strip clubs, massage parlors and sandwich shops more reminiscent of the dirty, old New York. A religious community center would be a step up for the street. Even an atheist would think so.

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Ground Zero Mosque and Prostitution
http://www.futureofcapitalism.com/2010/08/ground-zero-mosque-and-prostitution
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His late-blooming real estate career came after a difficult youth: Mr. Gamal pleaded guilty to at least six misdemeanors in his late teens and early 20s, including charges related to disorderly conduct, drunk driving and attempted shoplifting. He was once arrested for soliciting a prostitute in Manhattan, according to a law enforcement official.
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And as for the prostitution solicitation, the Times report on it fails just about every test of journalistic ethics. It’s based on an anonymous source, and the Times doesn’t tell us how the matter was resolved — was he convicted? Acquitted? Plenty of people are arrested for crimes they did not commit. Even so, something reminds me of the “Why They Hate Us” post about the Florida-based mother of the Al Qaeda operative saying his son complained about “women wearing skimpy clothes.”

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