UK Times: New York firefighters' imam forced to quit over 9/11 outburst

[seafan]

October 03, 2005

THE New York Fire Department begins looking for a new Muslim chaplain today after sacking its newest spiritual adviser for saying that he did not believe that hijackers from al-Qaeda or any other group brought down the World Trade Centre on September 11, 2001.

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Mr Habib, a New York resident since 2000, said: “I, as an individual, do not know who did the attacks. I do not believe it was 19 hijackers who did those attacks. Experts say that it takes two or three weeks to demolish a building like that, but it was pulled down in a couple of hours. Was it 19 hijackers who brought it down or was it a conspiracy?”

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The imam, originally from Guyana, was forced to resign within hours and Michael Bloomberg, the Mayor, ordered an investigation into how he had been chosen six weeks earlier without any questions on the 2001 catastrophe. “I am glad that he has resigned,” Mr Bloomberg said. “This is not a person who should be representing a department that was devastated on 9/11 and answering their spiritual needs.”

Mr Habib, who was trained in Saudi Arabia, said that he regretted causing offence when he told Newsday newspaper that he tended to believe theories that the September 11 attacks were a conspiracy designed to further US interests. He said he had never dealt with the media before but stood by his view that the cause of the towers’ collapse was uncertain.


http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-1808729,00.html

[Vincardog]

1. The truth can not be spoken welcome to the new speak

[tainowarrior]

2. fired for his beliefs

he wasn't racist, he wasn't offensive, he wasn't doing anything but supporting a proposed theory that has been put forwards by geologists who studied geological waves at the time of the fall, structural analysts who assure that the building's frame would have not melted from the heat of the crash, etc.

Were there hijackers on the plane? Most likely. Did the force of those plans bring down the buildings? No. Something is fishy. I believe the planes were a coverup for bombs planted inside the buildings. I still question why buildings 4 and 5, which did not receive a damned scratch from the airplanes, fell apart too. Why?

I'm not convinced.:tinfoilhat:

[TNOE]

3. Ah yes

we can't be letting the truth get out now...... fire the infidel!

[Moderator]

4. Lock

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