The new Muslim chaplain with the FDNY doesn’t believe Al Qaida caused 9/11 (via LGF). Surely the firefighters who lost friends in the World Trade Center will have a feef with him.

In a telephone interview Thursday, Imam Intikab Habib, 30, a native of Guyana who studied Islam in Saudi Arabia, said he doubted the United States government’s official story blaming 19 hijackers associated with al-Quaida and Osama bin Laden.

“I as an individual don’t know who did the attacks,” said Habib, 30, a soft-spoken man who immigrated to New York in July 2000 after spending six years in Saudi Arabia getting a degree in Islamic theology and law. “There are so many conflicting reports about it. I don’t believe it was 19 … hijackers who did those attacks.”

Asked to elaborate on his reasons for doubting that story, he talked about video and news reports widely disseminated in the Muslim community.

“I’ve heard professionals say that nowhere ever in history did a steel building come down with fire alone,” he said. “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?”

We’ve seen this type of lunacy time and time again throughout the Muslim world. Perhaps I should use a different word than lunacy because it’s not quite fitting. Allow me to explain what I mean.

The shock of 9/11 in the United States was and still is great. The shock of 9/11 in the Muslim world perhaps might be greater because many are trying to rationalize how 19 of their fellow Muslims could have committed such an act. Some refuse to believe that other Muslims could have deliberately targeted thousands of innocent civilians. Then of course there’s the role of the Arab press which has advanced these conspiracy theories.

I am not an engineer or an architect therefore I cannot explain how the towers collapsed, however what would the rational reason for the U.S. to tear down the buildings be? The most common argument is that President Bush wanted to start a war in Afghanistan against the Taliban and Al Qaida. There was already ample evidence to start such a war at least against Al Qaida that should have began during the 1990s but wasn’t.

I’d like to hear some reactions to this statement from firefighters in New York. Would it effect their job or their confidence in those around them?

Update (Mac): As LGF and Michelle Malkin notes, Imam Intikab Habib has resigned already. That was quick.

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