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Erecting a gay bar next door

Good luck finding 72 virgins in this joint.

In one of the wackier ideas to come from the debates surrounding the mosque near Ground Zero, a cable-TV host says he wants to erect a gay bar for Muslims near the proposed house of worship.

“It is an effort to break down barriers and reduce deadly homophobia in the Islamic world,” Greg Gutfeld, of Fox News’ “Red Eye,” wrote on his blog.

“I hope that the mosque owners will be as open to the bar as I am to the new mosque.”

Reps for the Islamic center, proposed for Park Place, said on Twitter, “We’re open to dialog [sic], just not shenanigans.”