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."
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GOOD!
Was waiting for this after reading it in my morning paper.
However, he was just saying what the rest of the Muslim world believes.
Idiot. No conspiracy, just a Zionist plot to raise gas prices.
Most Muslims are lying filth. Simple.
Moonbat is right.
Michelle Malkin has covered this one nicely in her blog today. She says, "Government at all levels still refuses to screen out Wahhabist and terror-apologizing influences in our prisons, in the military, at the FBI, and in other prominent positions."
Must be a moderate muslim.
Sounds like a DU'er who believes in the Bush MIHOP theory.
I will bet anything that this Imam believes that the Jews were warned before the planes hit.
And good riddance to foul rubbish!
...and take your filthy Mein Q'uran with you, jackass.
Mr. Habid, thanks but no thanks.
Moderate Muslim [n]: One who's run out of suicide bombers.
Yes it was a broader conspiracy. It included Saudi princes funding Wahabi madrasas training Islamic children nothing but hatred of all that is Western. It involved Osama bin-Laden and his gang funneling money into the US. It involved a variety of safe houses in Germany and the US for the terrorists. It involved Pakastani intelligence setting up the taliban government in Afghanistan.
Oh, that wasn't the conspiracy he was talking about.
Careful or you'll get a fatwah*. :)
* Maybe a parody of "fat-whaaa" could be a big crying baby with a diaper on his head throwing a tantrum. :)
A moderate Muslim is a typical Muslom who just keeps his radical beliefs to himself. Sometimes, they just accidentally slip up, as this guy did.
Never ceases to amaze me....they believe the Jews were behind 9/11 ..yet praise Osama for pulling it off.
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