The traffic consultant hired by Oyster Bay town officials to review a planned Bethpage mosque expansion has been fired for posting anti-Muslim comments on a social media page.

Florida-based traffic consultant Jeffrey Buckholz was terminated late Thursday, town officials confirmed Friday.

“We are shocked and outraged to learn of this, and are immediately dismissing him from this case,” Town Supervisor Joseph Saladino said Friday in a statement emailed to Newsday.

Town spokesman Brian Nevin did not respond to additional questions from Newsday.

WHAT NEWSDAY FOUND

Oyster Bay has fired a traffic consultant who had been part of the town's review of a proposed Bethpage mosque expansion.

The consultant, Jeffrey Buckholz, in one social media post, said of Muslims, “They want to conquer us —

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