WSJ Asks Ground Zero Strippers What They Think About Park 51 Ctr.

[pinboy3niner]

WSJ Asks Strippers What They Think About The Ground Zero Mosque
by Steven Jessop | 4:07 pm, August 20th, 2010


Many people on both sides of the argument have weighed in on the Park 51 Islamic center, more commonly known as the Ground Zero Mosque. But until now, one important and clearly relevant voice was left unheard – that of the exotic dancer community that apparently thrives around the Word Trade Center site. Now, thanks to the Wall Street Journal, that voice is being heard.

The article contests the idea that the location of the planned center sits on “hallowed ground,” explaining that the area isn’t that much different from any other spot in New York (read: surrounded by strip clubs and off-track betting facilities). The fact that the building used to house a Burlington Coat Factory and harbor homeless people also detracts from the sanctity of the space.

But the best thing about the story is the rare opportunity it provides to catch snippets of calm discourse (rather than the usual frenzied kind) from a group of people who work near the site, some of whom were directly affected by the terrorist attacks on 9/11 – “They’re not building a mosque in the World Trade Center,” one stripper said. “It’s all good. You have your synagogues and your churches. And you have a mosque.” Why can’t everyone speak as simply about the situation as a woman described as wearing “a tiny, shiny red dress?”


http://www.mediaite.com/online/wsj-asks-strippers-what-they-think-about-the-ground-zero-mosque/

[Scuba]

1. harboring the homeless adds to the sanctity n/t

[RC]

2. Ground Zero is not “hallowed ground,”

It is an obscenity allowed by our government to get their war going.

[NYC Liberal]

3. I don't even call it "Ground Zero" because it's bullshit framing

[stubtoe]

4. Yep.

I was just thinking about that today. Still gets me riled.

[snot]

5. Per the WSJ article,

"Chris, the stripper who volunteered in the Ground Zero recovery, sat on a barstool in a tiny, shiny red dress and defended Park51. “They’re not building a mosque in the World Trade Center,” she pointed out. “It’s all good. You have your synagogues and your churches. And you have a mosque.”

"Chris said she lost eight friends on Sept. 11, 2001 — firefighters from the Brooklyn firehouse next to her home at the time. “The people who did it are not going to the mosque,” she said."

The stripper WHO ACTUALLY LOST FRIENDS on 9/11 and WHO ACTUALLY VOLUNTEERED in the recovery.

[seabeyond]

6. i really didnt care what the stripper had to say. i really care about what the woman that lost

8 friends, is from the area and helped in the recovery, has to say.

too bad it is all about her being a stripper.