Posted on 09/30/2005 9:45:29 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
NEW YORK - The fire department's new Muslim chaplain abruptly resigned Friday after saying in a published interview that a broader conspiracy, not 19 al-Qaida hijackers, may have been responsible for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
"It became clear to him that he would have difficulty functioning as an FDNY chaplain," Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta told reporters an hour before Imam Intikab Habib was to be officially sworn in. "There has been no prior indication that he held those views."
Habib told Newsday in an interview published Friday that he was skeptical of the official version of the attack on the World Trade Center, which killed 343 firefighters.
"I've heard professionals say that nowhere ever in history did a steel building come down with fire alone," he told the newspaper.
"It takes two or three weeks to demolish a building like that. But it was pulled down in a couple of hours," he said. "Was it 19 hijackers who brought it down, or was it a conspiracy?"
The 30-year Guyana native joined the department as chaplain on Aug. 15 after the FDNY's Islamic Society recommended him for the part-time position, which pays $18,000 a year.
Scoppetta said Habib, who was educated in Islamic law in Saudi Arabia and preaches at a New York mosque, had appeared qualified and passed a background check.
"It's sad," said Kevin James, a spokesman for the Islamic Society of Fire Department Personnel. "We had no idea those were his views. He's entitled to his opinion but he's not the right person for the chaplain."
As if there's not one on every American already? I and millions like me were marked for murder by bin Laden himself years before 9/11.
Naturally, no Muslims condemned the terrorist threat. That's why I'll never buy into this "religion of peace" bullcrap.
Only a matter of time before CAIR and the ACLU land on the FDNY with both feet.
Why the hell did FDNY need a Muslim chaplain for in the first place? What a crock.
Please don't squeeze the Charmin!
It's Orwellian doublethink. That's how Leftists can insist that Islam is a lovely religion and must be tolerated, but it's an absolute failure that Islam is recognized in the Iraqi constitution.
You're right and that's the scariest part.
Sorry to say but it's very unlikely your going to be able to find a muslim Chaplain that doesn't hold those views or the view that it's a great thing that 19 martyrs destroyed the WTC...one or the other. The best choice is to not pay for a muslim chaplain...period. Islam is at war with the US...they are the enemy and I don't care what anyone says to the contrary.
Maybe somebody also plowed jetliners into them at 500+mph when nobody was looking.
Kevin James, a spokesman for the Islamic Society of Fire Department Personnel.
scary...
what this really shows is how deep the cancer goes within the US muslim community.
Now I'm really confused. I read a long time ago a statement by a Mullah who said Allah did it. I wish these learned clerics would get their story straight.
Never ceases to amaze me....they believe the Jews were behind 9/11 ..yet praise Osama for pulling it off.
Wow, excellent analysis. Thanks...I'll use that one in the future.
The 19 hijackers were the product of a multi-year conspiracy.
Tough break - especially with any chance of that Freedom Center chaplain gig falling through also.
Who hired this guy in the first place?!
"Was it 19 hijackers who brought it down, or was it a conspiracy?"
Now I'm really confused. I read a long time ago a statement by a Mullah who said Allah did it. I wish these learned clerics would get their story straight.
Has Calypso Louie ever weighed in on this? I'm sure he has some really good explanation as to what really happened!
Didn't Al Bundy hate and ridicule Habib?
having an imam to care for my soul would be like having kevorkian as my doctor
"However, he was just saying what the rest of the Muslim world believes."
Actually the Muslim world simultaneously 1) Believe 9/11 was the work of a Jewish conspiracy, 2) Are happy that 9/11 and 3) Hate the Jews. They see no apparent contradiction between these three points of view.
Well, gee, they wouldn't have bothered to hire an imam as an FDNY chaplain if there weren't... Muslims serving, presumably honorably, in the FDNY.
Or do you disagree with my presumption? Or do you think that their fellow non-Muslim colleagues are just misguided?
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