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Sheikh Imran Hosein and Captain Dan Hanley on Career-Ending 9/11 Whistleblowing
Sheikh Imran Hosein was born in the Caribbean island of Trinidad in 1942 from parents whose ancestors had migrated as indentured labourer from India. He is a graduate of the Aleemiyah Institute in Karachi and has studied at sevaral instutions of higher learning including the University of Karachi,the University of the West Indies, Al Azhar University and the Graduate Institute of International Relations in Switzerland. He is widely viewed as the leading Islamic eschatologist and has published many books,
Captain Dan Hanley served in the US navy as an aviator with honors and distinction for 10 years and then as a United Airlines pilot for 25 years. Over a flying career span of 35 years, flying 15 different aircraft accruing over 20,000 flight hours. He says: “I can unequivocally state, without reservation or embarrassment, that I could not have flown the 9/11 flight profiles, especially the Pentagon profile, and neither could the unqualified alleged Muslim hijackers.”
Below is a rough transcript of the conversation.
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Kevin Barrett: Welcome to Truth Jihad Audiovisual and also Sheikh Imran Hossein's podcast. I'm Kevin Barrett, honored to be doing this with two of my favorite people, Captain Dan Hanley of 9/11 Pilots and Sheikh Imran Hosein, one of my touchstones in terms of Islamic knowledge and scholarship.It's an honor to be with both of you.
Dan Hanley: Well, Kevin, thank you for having me on and thank both of you gentlemen. I feel honored and privileged just to be able to talk to both of you renowned Islamic scholars.
Sheikh Imran Hosein: Thank you, Kevin. It's wonderful to see you again and wonderful to be back in contact with you today.
Yes, I feel very much the same. So…the three of us have a lot in common. We're all Muslims from the Western Hemisphere. We all lost our jobs because of 9/11, one way or another. And we all ended up leaving the United States because of 9/11. And now all three of us have some trepidations about even returning to the United States, even briefly for a visit, due to what might happen to us at immigration.
And so given that, I thought we could start maybe by just briefly introducing ourselves and how we lost our jobs and ended up leaving the United States due to 9/11. Sheikh Imran Hossein, you have the honor of being the first to have lost your job and left the United States after 9/11, and to have been fully wide awake about it. So why don't you go ahead and tell us about how you reacted when it happened an what transpired?
Sheikh Imran Hosein: Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. I was resident in New York in the United States for 10 years, from 1991 to 2001, as the Director of Islamic Studies for the Joint Committee of Muslim Organizations of Greater New York, which included my conducting the Friday Congregational Prayer once a month at the United Nations headquarters in Manhattan's for 10 years continuously.
When 9/11 took place, I was in Ne
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