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FDNY Chaplain Resigns After 9/11 Remarks
ap on Yahoo ^ | 9/30/05 | Michael Weissenstein - ap

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."


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; US: New York; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 911; chaplain; enemieswithin; fdny; firefighters; intikabhabib; islamicsociety; muslimchaplains; remarks; resignation; resigns
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1 posted on 09/30/2005 9:45:31 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge

GOOD!


2 posted on 09/30/2005 9:46:59 AM PDT by areafiftyone (Politicians Are Like Diapers, Both Need To Be Changed Often And For The Same Reason!)
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To: NormsRevenge

Was waiting for this after reading it in my morning paper.

However, he was just saying what the rest of the Muslim world believes.


3 posted on 09/30/2005 9:49:21 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: NormsRevenge
Sounds like the FDNY needs to tweak their background check process a bit.
4 posted on 09/30/2005 9:50:19 AM PDT by Mulch (tm)
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To: NormsRevenge

Idiot. No conspiracy, just a Zionist plot to raise gas prices.


5 posted on 09/30/2005 9:50:47 AM PDT by Pondman88
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To: NormsRevenge

Most Muslims are lying filth. Simple.


6 posted on 09/30/2005 9:50:51 AM PDT by steel_resolve
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To: NormsRevenge

Moonbat is right.


7 posted on 09/30/2005 9:50:57 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (US socialist liberalism would be dead without the help of politicians who claim to be conservative.)
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To: NormsRevenge
"A spokesman for the Fire Department, Frank Gribbon, said that Habib was recommended by the department's Islamic Society and was hired "based on his credentials as a religious person. We don't ask new employees about their political views before we hire them."

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."

8 posted on 09/30/2005 9:52:20 AM PDT by BigFinn
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To: NormsRevenge

Must be a moderate muslim.


9 posted on 09/30/2005 9:53:40 AM PDT by spunkets
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To: areafiftyone
"...no prior indication he held those views."
Until he opened his mouth.
10 posted on 09/30/2005 9:54:37 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Troubled by NOLA looting ? You ain't seen nothing yet.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Sounds like a DU'er who believes in the Bush MIHOP theory.


11 posted on 09/30/2005 9:54:40 AM PDT by ladtx ("It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it." -- -- General Douglas MacArthur)
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To: NormsRevenge

I will bet anything that this Imam believes that the Jews were warned before the planes hit.


12 posted on 09/30/2005 9:57:07 AM PDT by frogjerk (LIBERALISM - Being miserable for no good reason)
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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.

And good riddance to foul rubbish!

...and take your filthy Mein Q'uran with you, jackass.


13 posted on 09/30/2005 9:57:20 AM PDT by Prime Choice (E=mc^3. Don't drink and derive.)
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Scoppetta said Habib, who was educated in Islamic law in Saudi Arabia and preaches [hate and anti-US conspiracies] at a New York mosque, had appeared qualified and passed a background check.

Mr. Habid, thanks but no thanks.

14 posted on 09/30/2005 9:57:36 AM PDT by george wythe
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To: spunkets
Must be a moderate muslim.

Moderate Muslim [n]: One who's run out of suicide bombers.

15 posted on 09/30/2005 9:58:43 AM PDT by Prime Choice (E=mc^3. Don't drink and derive.)
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To: NormsRevenge
interview that a broader conspiracy, not 19 al-Qaida hijackers, may have been responsible for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

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.

16 posted on 09/30/2005 10:02:26 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (We need a strict constructionist - not someone who plays shadow puppet theater with the Constitution)
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To: Prime Choice

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. :)


17 posted on 09/30/2005 10:03:52 AM PDT by anymouse
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To: Prime Choice

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.


18 posted on 09/30/2005 10:04:21 AM PDT by Hildy
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To: frogjerk

Never ceases to amaze me....they believe the Jews were behind 9/11 ..yet praise Osama for pulling it off.


19 posted on 09/30/2005 10:05:02 AM PDT by Dixiekraut (Convey)
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To: steel_resolve
It's close enough that it's proper to generalize and say "all".

20 posted on 09/30/2005 10:06:08 AM PDT by I see my hands (Until this civil war heats up.. Have a nice day.)
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