Posted on 09/30/2005 9:03:28 AM PDT by dennisw
An imam slated to be sworn in today as the second Muslim chaplain in Fire Department history, instead resigned after making controversial remarks on the Sept. 11 attacks in an interview with Newsday.
"The Fire Department this morning received the resignation of Imam Intikab Habib from his position of FDNY Chaplain," said FDNY Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta. "Based on comments he made to Newsday, Imam Intikab Habib would have been unable to effectively serve in the role he was appointed to."
In a telephone interview Thursday, Habib, 30, a native of Guyana who studied Islam in Saudi Arabia, said he questioned whether 19 hijackers were responsible for the Sept. 11 terror attacks, and suggested a broader conspiracy may have brought down the Twin Towers and killed more than 2,700 people.
He said he doubted the United States government's official story blaming 19 hijackers associated with al-Quaida and Osama bin Laden.
"I as an individual don't know who did the attacks," said Habib, 30, a soft-spoken man who immigrated to New York in July 2000 after spending six years in Saudi Arabia getting a degree in Islamic theology and law. "There are so many conflicting reports about it. I don't believe it was 19 ... hijackers who did those attacks."
Asked to elaborate on his reasons for doubting that story, he talked about video and news reports widely disseminated in the Muslim community.
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It is absurd this guy got hired in the first place. I would be interested to know the number of Muslim firefighters in the NYC Fire Department.
A Muslim fire chaplin in New York City? Is he going to begin his prayers asking for Allah to bring death and destruction to the firefighters?
Islamics are like little children in their logic skills.
Some wacko over at the NYFD hoped this guy would fly under the radar.
"...........questioned whether 19 hijackers were responsible for the Sept. 11 terror attacks, and suggested a broader conspiracy may have brought down the Twin Towers and killed more than 2,700 people..........."
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Anyone surprised at his thinking?
Say it ain't so Habib!!
He was discussing homeland security. He stated that he would be creative with the funds and use the money for diversity programs.
And I personally think that many on this forum are getting way too "stuck on stuck on stupid".
Getting right up there wit the whole "It's Bush's Fault!" thing.
My guess would be too many.
I find it offensive that this man was even considered for the job of chaplain for the FDNY. Muslim nuts killed over 300 New York City firemen. Political correctness offends common sense.
Diversity baby, gots to have diversity. It doesn't matter if there is just one Muslim on the department.
An intense investigation of this "Islamic Society" seems to be in order.
Habib was one of several imams recommended for the chaplain's job by the Islamic Society for the Fire Department, as a result of his work teaching junior high students at Al-Ihsan Academy in Ozone Park, a private Islamic school, where he worked for about five years.
Terrorists-in-training, no doubt.
Maybe, but do you deny the statements, "Stuck on Stupid" and "It's Bush's Fault", are rooted in Truth?
I see nothing wrong with the repetition. Everytime they are used it re-inforces a certain point better than a paragraph ever could. It gets through to even the casual observer. Those that do not follow politics, now even joke about how the Dems put everything on Bush's head. That hurts the Dems in elections.
So does re-inforceing the idea that they are "stuck" on certain points to the height of stupidity.
Later in the interview he revealed the "real" hijackers to have been from the Temple B'nai Torah (Newton, MA) women's auxilliary...
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