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Great news for the New York housing market — landlords are finally the good guys! Yes, wise old Mayor Bloomberg and our beloved President Obama have just given their warmest good wishes for landlords to collect unpaid rent by storming in, screaming curses and beating the heck out of their tenants. And the news gets even better, landlords — your brother is allowed to do it too!
Yes, just act like Sharif el-Gamal, the developer of the Ground Zero Mosque, and punch your brother’s tenant so hard you break his nose and cheekbones, and America’s ruling class will fall at your feet. You may even get Mayor Bloomberg to give a weepy press conference, surrounded by a gaggle of rabbis, in which he sheds tender tears over your right to insult the American people by building a Victory Mosque in the heart of their deepest wound.
Of course, it helps if you’ve been arrested seven times for everything from patronizing prostitutes to disorderly conduct to petit larceny.  And that you owe

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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. In 2005, Mr. Gamal was arrested after he punched a man who owed rent to his brother, who is also a property owner. Mr. Gamal later settled the matter for about $15,000. “I regret many things that I did in my youth; I have not always led a perfect life,” Mr. Gamal said in a statement issued Sunday by his spokesman.
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UPDATE 2: It turns out that the Times is also playing catch-up on Mr. Gamal’s criminal history. On Saturday, James Fanelli at the New York Daily News covered that topic (”Park51 developer Sharif El-Gamal has a history of run-ins with the law”). Holy moly (so to speak). Read the whole thing (”Sharif El-Gamal has a history of at least seven run-ins with the law, including a 1994 bust for patronizing a prostitute.”). 

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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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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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Before the Internet, vice cops had it relatively easy. Most cities had specific areas known for street prostitution where undercover officers posing as johns could chat up a lady, strike a deal to pay for a sex act, and then pull out the cuffs. But in the last decade, the oldest profession has “gone high-tech,” says Jaime Ayala, Deputy Chief of Police in Arlington, Texas.
Anyone who has perused the adult sections of Craigslist or Backpage knows that men and women (and boys and girls) advertise their sexual services online. What this means for police is a lot more legwork. At the same time, a rise in awareness about the ugly world of human trafficking, where women from abroad—and, in some cases, American children—are held hostage in brothels disguised as massage parlors, has shifted law enforcement focus and resources away from traditional vice work, according to many attorneys.

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The old press release ignored basic facts. The proposed community center, Park51, is neither a house of worship, nor in the immediate vicinity of the former World Trade Center. The center will be two blocks away from the Vesey Street side of the WTC footprint, and even further away from the Ground Zero main drag on Church Street. Park51 is about seven blocks away from the planned 9-11 Tribute Center on Liberty Street, just off Church. A quick glance at a map of Lower Manhattan should convince anyone that this whole “controversy” was ginned up. You can’t even see Park Place from the former WTC site.
The other factual problem with the initial press release’s exhortation to “keep” “Ground Zero” “religion-free” is that the area around the Twin Towers has never been, and will never be, religion-free (or strip club-free, or discount shoe emporium-free). This is downtown New York City, folks. The major Ground Zero tourist strip is Church Street, which backs onto the old St. Paul’s ch …

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Geller said that the President “has, in effect, sided with the Islamic jihadists”. The group held their first protest in New york, announcing a further one in 9/11. Among the speakers is “Dutch Parliamentarian and freedom fighter Geert Wilders”, who will be spreading his message in the city once known as New Amsterdam.
There have been protests against building mosques throughout the US, including Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, Wisconsin and California. This must raise questions over the radius of the “hallowed ground” around the ruins of the World Trade Centre. New Yorkers also point to the strip clubs, lap dancing parlours and similar that are located as close to Ground Zero as the planned cultural centre. Presumably the Christians involved in stoking the controversy feel that it is OK to have a bar where you can pay to leer at naked women on “sacred space”.

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So they hired a clothing store owner named David Oppenheim. Easily mistaken for Greek or Cuban, fluent in Yiddish and German, Oppenheim leveraged his unfeigned enthusiasm for booze and late nights to infiltrate numerous back rooms. And the committee engaged young men like William Lustgarten, who lived in the building now maintained as the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, to roam the streets in teams, accept solicitations from prostitutes, and testify to witnessing the exchange of money and the display of the prostitute’s “person.”
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With the advent of World War I, the federal government called on the committee’s stable of investigators to monitor prostitution near the troops stationed at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. (This was part of an effort to protect the health of soldiers that led to the incarceration, in hospitals, jails and mental institutions, of nearly 18,000 women suspected of being prostitutes or having venereal disease.)

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After Sept. 11, President George W. Bush took great pains to distinguish between Islam in general and terrorists who are Muslim. Initially, polls found the U.S. public made that distinction. A Pew survey soon after Sept. 11 asked whether Islam encourages violence more than other faiths, and Americans were twice as likely to say no than yes. Within a couple of years, however, that distinction was gone. Most Americans thought that Islam did encourage violence more.
“Events are filtered through the media and the reaction by others” as well as people’s pre-existing views, said Alan Cooperman, of the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.
Public leaders’ reactions to the planned Islamic cultural center two blocks from the World Trade Center site offer the latest example.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg and President Barack Obama supported the project’s developers’ right to proceed, and Obama spoke out against religious discrimination. However, the president sent a mixed message when he said the next day that he wasn’t commenting on the wisdom of the project’s location — a neighborhood filled with bars, restaurants, a strip club and an off-track betting parlor.

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