Advice to NYFD: Scrub Your "Islamic Society" Before Picking Your Next Muslim Chaplain
By Andrew Cochran
"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." Well, that was a wise and honorable thing for the chap to do, after he embarrassed the fine men and women of the NYFD with his ridiculous comments. But the first fault lies with the NYFD for its lack of oversight of its own Islamic Society, which recommended Intikab Habib and several other imams for the job. The NYFD suffers from the same problem as the Federal Bureau of Prisons - they didn't determine how the imams were being educated, what they were reading, and what they were learing on their overseas trips to Saudi Arabia. So I recommend that the NYFD start the search by asking outside experts to do a top-to-bottom audit of the NYFD Islamic Society and tell them whether Wahabbism has infected it to the point of no return. I can recommend a number of such experts on the left sidebar of this site.
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