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."
That's just it, you see. No plane parts were found in the wreckage. So it must have been an optical illusion foisted by the zionist conspirators.
I know-it was Hollywood special effects. You know how we Americans can take special effects and do anything we want to on film. We can make it look like 2 planes are flying into buildings.
Why do they even need a chaplin?
I would also be interested in this info...
Well, post 57 was the best I could come up with. :( Not what I had hoped to find.
It is a good reminder for us all. Thank you for posting.
I do recall, after the 9/11 attacks, one of the NY newspapers printed a breakdown of the victims nationalities and religion. I can't find it. Maybe someone else would be more successful.
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