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."
Yeah! Because there's NO WAY that there are actually Muslims serving in the FDNY! Just not possible! How could they!
The curse of diversity. Why would they hire a Muslim chaplain?
"Jihad Soldier." A foreign documentary film which substantiates what you said. Personal interviews with terrorists and terrorist recruiters. Saw it on LINK the other night.
Placation and fear, and a hope that they won't pee on their own carpet again. What other reason would there be to hire a top member of a suicide/homicide cult?
http://www.jrn.columbia.edu/studentwork/bronxbeat/2001/050601/muslim0506_01.shtml
As of the date of the 2001 article, there were only 12 muslims on the FDNY.
There is an Islamic Society of the FD and the Vulcan Society has also pushed for the hire of a muslim chaplain.
These groups both protested against the hiring of exonerated frm. police officer, E. McMellon - who accidentally shot and killed the muslim man, Amadou Diallo...
Fire alone discounting the multi ton jet and the multi tons of jet fuel.
Why would they hire any chaplain?
I would be genuinely interested to know how many of those Muslims were actively working on Sept. 11th; and then how many of them stayed on the job after it was clear that fanatial members of their religion did the job. I'd also be interested to know if any of them were among the casualties.
Did this muslim dingleberry not realize that once iron reaches a certain heat it starts to melt? There was so much fuel on those planes it added to the problem.
Now there is a surprise.
Semper Fi
I honestly don't know how they could have called him a "chaplain".
You mean, like this hamophobe was "presumably" not radical?
Mohamophages of the world, unite; you have nothing to lose but...well, nothing.
Well, hey, put some feet to your genuine interest, and then report back to us.
Good idea, I'll see what I can dig up a bit later today.
Couldn't find anything. I did find this page
http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/091101rescuers.html
with names and pictures of the firefighters who died; none are obviously Muslim that I could tell.
Regardless it's a good page for us all to look at again.
Hang this AH from a streetlight.
The joys of a 'diversified' workforce.
I'm not sure the background check really needed to get much farther than this.
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