=93We don't live for this world, as many of the Ikhwan [Brotherhood]
seem to believe unfortunately. We live for the afterlife. This dunya
[world] is for Joe Kaufman and Alan Dershowitz and George Bush. Let
them have it because they'll have no share in the next
life.=94
- Radical Islamist and CAIR Staffer, Omer Subhani
On March 1, 2008, CAIR-Florida representative Jawhar =93Joe=94 Badran,
with CAIR-Florida Executive Director Altaf Ali by his side, proclaimed
on camera that =93Hamas is not a terrorist organization.=94 Statements
such as these from CAIR officials come sparse, as the group=92s sup****t
for its murderous Palestinian patriarch is usually hidden. However,
it turns out that one of Badran=92s CAIR-Florida colleagues, Omer
Subhani, said the same months before. And he continues to do so.
Omer Subhani is a 25-year-old Pakistani-American, who currently holds
the position of Communications Director for the South Florida office
of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Being an officer for
CAIR, an organization aligned with terrorist groups overseas =96 most
notably Hamas =96 Subhani has the burden of attempting to explain (or
explain away) CAIR=92s sinister connections.
But first, he must explain his own.
Subhani has been involved in radical Muslim organizations, since at
least his teenage years. Last month, he wrote, on his personal blog,
=93I remember back when I was a freshman in high school, me and my
closest friend initiated the first annual MYNA Basketball Tournament
at Florida International University in 1996 I believe.=94 He stated
that MYNA or Muslim Youth of North America was created by the Muslim
Students Association (MSA) and admits that the MSA=92s founders =93were
former members or nominally inclined to the Muslim Brotherhood and its
teachings of activism (and world domination of course).=94
In addition, Subhani was involved with Islamic Relief (IR), a
=93charity=94 that, like CAIR, has been recognized as being a front for
Hamas. He was a contact for a fundraiser for the group, which was
held at Nova Southeastern University, in December 2004.
As a child, Subhani gained knowledge of his relatives=92 fondness for
suicide bombers. In October 2007, he stated on his blog, =93I learned,
through my adult relatives=92 conversations mostly, that Pakistan was a
great regional military power that had fought and defeated India
multiple times in warfare. Pakistani soldiers, I was told, were Muslim
heroes who strapped grenades to themselves in the face of Indian tanks
and laid down in front of the tanks in order to take out the more
powerful Indian military. They sacrificed their lives for Pakistani
freedom.=94
Last November, Subhani, concerned over the leader****p situation in
Pakistan, predicted the death of former Pakistani Prime Minister
Benazir Bhutto. Following a duel suicide bombing that took place in
Karachi, he wrote, =93Bhutto escaped an assassination attempt on her
life the first time she came back to Pakistan. She would likely not be
as successful as Musharraf in avoiding assassination attempts on a
regular basis.=94 And after the successful suicide attack that took her
life in December, Subhani mercilessly ripped her apart, saying, =93I am
disgusted with the U.S. media. Their coverage of Bhutto as some sort
of martyr is despicable and inappropriate... She was a crook, plain
and simple.=94
Indeed, Subhani has a strong connection to his native Pakistan. This
is evidenced by the fact that he refers to it as the =93mother land.=94
He is quick to point out, though, that he is =93an American and a
Pakistani second, if at all.=94 He has also said that he has =93zero
allegiance to any other country besides America.=94 Yet, in November of
2007, he wrote, =93I recently saw Michael Moore=92s latest movie, Sicko.
It was very informative and also very depressing. I am seriously
considering at some point in my life moving to either Canada or
Europe... All of that makes me want to jump on a boat to Cuba; it=92s
only 90 some miles away from my home. Viva Fidel.=94
In truth, Subhani has a sincere hatred towards the United States.
Last month, he even wrote, =93As an American we all have the right to
like our country or even to hate it.=94
But Subhani goes much further than to just have a simple disdain for
America. In November, he wrote, =93By our own definitions of
terrorism... the US is a terrorist state.=94
Mimicking our enemy overseas, Subhani has called our presence in Iraq
an =93illegal occupation,=94 whilst mocking our troops. This month, he
wrote, =93It takes a massive level of indoctrination and in other cases,
arrogance, to figure that another nation is =91interfering=92 in a country
that our nation has illegally occupied... President Bush and other
American officials, in public castigations of Iran, have said that
Iran has been consistently meddlesome in Iraq and that the Iranians
have long sought to arm and train Iraqi militias... Oh, but you know,
those 150,000 American troops =96 they=92ve been nothing but angels.=94
Subhani has also compared both us and Israel to al-Qaeda, likening
both countries to =93cold blooded killers.=94 In April, he wrote, =93The
rationale is exactly the same, unsurprisingly. If you were to kill
someone you would obviously blame your actions on either ignorance of
the cir***stance or situation, or on someone else=92s actions. It seems
al-Qaeda is just taking the approach that the U.S. and Israel have
used for decades... What all of this implies is that cold blooded
killers, no matter their ethnicity or religions or upbringings, think
the same way.=94
But while Subhani considers the United States and Israel to be
terrorist entities, he refuses to say the same about Hamas and
Hezbollah, two groups found on the U.S. State Department=92s list of
Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs). In November, he stated,
=93Hamas, Hezbollah, and other national liberation movements use every
means at their disposal to fight occupation or oppression. It=92s wrong
to kill innocent people. It=92s wrong to fire rockets indiscriminately
at towns and villages. But that does not mean because they commit such
actions that Hamas and Hezbollah are completely and utterly devout
terrorist organizations, as the mainstream press here in the US likes
to label them.=94
In January, he wrote, =93I do not agree with the idea that Hamas is a
terrorist organization... Israel is far worse. Hamas has not been
brutally occupying Israel for over 40 years.=94 And in March, he stated,
=93As far as saying that Hamas is a terrorist organization - that is a
statement of opinion for anyone who makes it - even the State
Department... [I]s Hamas a terrorist organization? Of course it=92s
not... Israeli war crimes, do***ented by the most respected human
rights groups in the United States and Israel, far surpass anything
Hamas or any other Palestinian organization could ever hope to
accomplish.=94
And in April, he admitted about his group that it has a policy of not
denouncing either Hamas or Hezbollah. He wrote, =93I=92ve seen on TV and
in print people demanding CAIR to =91condemn=92 groups like Hamas and
Hezbollah. CAIR has openly condemned their violent actions, but as an
organization it refuses to condemn them as groups.=94
Subhani=92s obsession with Hamas and Israel has led him to believe that
hatred of Jews is justified. He calls this =93legitimate antisemitism=94
and provides a laundry list of demands that Israel needs to meet,
before anyone can, according to him, =93expect antisemitism to dwindle.=94
All of the above quotes were made starting the month Subhani joined
the staff of CAIR, September of 2007. On the top of his blog, which
even includes a piece calling for the release of 9/11 mastermind
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, a disclaimer is found. It=92s there for a
reason. It=92s to be used as an excuse to say, if an article ever comes
out such as this, Subhani=92s statements will be his alone.
However, Subhani=92s outrageous words are a manifestation of CAIR=92s true
self =96 that being a group based on the destruction of Israel, sup****t
for terrorists, and a general disdain for the West (i.e. the United
States).
Last April, Subhani wrote, =93[I]f any CAIR officials have done any
wrong doing then they should be punished.=94 While his words do not
reach the level of any type of prescribed punishment, Subhani
certainly has said enough to warrant his being watched as a potential
threat. Who could expect any less for an individual that considers
and proclaims Hamas to be anything but that which it is, a terrorist
organization?
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