Muslim FDNY Chaplain Resigns After 9/11 Remarks
NEW YORK (AP) -- The fire department's new Muslim chaplain abruptly resigned Friday after saying in a published interview that he believes something other than al-Qaida hijackers brought down the World Trade Center.
''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 Sept. 11 terrorist attacks 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?''
1 comment:
I don't see anything offensive in his comments.
They were stupid and he sounded like an idiot. but I fail to see anything offensive or, frankly disrespectful in what he said. He didn't blame the government, Jews or Israel. All he said was that he thought that the evidence pointed to some kind of conspiracy, rather than terrorism. And then he said he didn't know who did it.
So based on what the guy actually said, why in the world is the mayor's office saying this was an offensive statement?
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