Whitehead Telling Tall Tales

It seems Andy Whitehead is becoming fonder of me as the days go by. He wrote a piece about my comments regarding Sami Al-Arian. Since he's out there to attempt to discredit me with more false accusations I think it's more than appropriate that I respond.

Omer Subhani, the communications director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) South Florida, authors a blog. On April 16, he wrote that he had “serious doubts” about Sami Al-Arian, the disgraced former college professor and Islamist terrorist. Read his post here.

In his blog entry, Subhani attempts to come across as an impartial observer of the trial who was swayed by the outcome of the case. If his claim weren’t so biased, it’d be funny. But when it comes to CAIR and radical Islam, nobody is laughing.

I never said I was swayed by anything. My questions about the case still linger and what is on my blog is my own opinion based upon limited knowledge of the actual case. I don't make a living off of it like some people, ahem. And Andy, don't talk about bias when your web site is called "Anti-CAIR" and you devote your life to defaming any politically active Muslim American as an "Islamist."

Perhaps Subhani is not aware that CAIR is calling Al-Arian a “political prisoner”?

Is Subhani not aware that CAIR has sided with Al-Arian against the United States from day one?

I'm aware, Andy.

Is Subhani really this ignorant? Consider, he is the communications director for a CAIR chapter; this means he is on CAIR Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper’s speed-dial list. Is Hooper not keeping Subhani up to date on the party line? Subhani attends American universities; he cannot claim he doesn’t speak, read and write English.

Some facts: I began working for CAIR in September of 2007. Ibrahim doesn't have me on speed dial, but he sure does have my email address, and he has not informed me of any "party line." And I do not currently attend "American universities." I graduated, as is stated on my blog profile, and am working with CAIR to better serve fellow Muslim Americans and my community in general.

So, what motivates Subhani?

Simple. It’s another case of CAIR trying to con the rubes. Only this time it didn’t work. At the time Anti-CAIR reviewed Subhani’s post, he had exactly zero supporters among those responding. True to the CAIR playbook, Subhani has deleted posts — could they have been critical (i.e., telling the truth) of Subhani or CAIR?

First of all, barely anyone visits my blog in the first place. I started it in October of 2007. Most of the people who comment on my blog are people who disagree with me. I've had the pleasure of fielding comments from Muslims Against Shariah, Jihad Watch, and now from you, Andy. Having "zero supporters" is nothing new because my blog is not publicized by me and it seems that right wing groupies have nothing better to do than write remarks on my blog. Lastly, I have never deleted a single post anyone has written on my blog. I am more than happy to watch friends of yours make complete fools of themselves, like that moron at Muslims Against Shariah, Khalim Massoud. The post you are mentioning was deleted by the person who posted it. Probably a friend of yours, maybe you should ask him/her. As for my motivations, I just stated one of them above: "to better serve fellow Muslim Americans and my community in general."

Subhani has learned that when you associate with the terrorist supporters of CAIR that every word you say is naturally suspect; this is as it should be.

I learned that? Are you sure? And held suspect by whom? You? That's fine with me, Andy. I'm definitely not looking to convince you of anything lest my Islamist agenda for world domination be discovered. Definitely wouldn't want that to happen.

For the record, Al-Arian’s claim that his plea agreement voided any requirement to further testimony was denied.

We note that Subhani calls Anti-CAIR bigots and that we “tell lies”.

I documented your bigoted and xenophobic remarks already. The lie you told was that Al-Arian refused to uphold his plea deal. No where in the deal does it say he must testify in other cases. Further, the prosecution and his defense agreed, verbally in court, that he would not have to deal with the government any more after the deal, but of course as we now know our government broke the deal and is forcing him to testify.

Subhani, a law school student, should know that defamation is against the law; i.e., you can sue someone if they tell a lie about you. If CAIR believes that Anti-CAIR is defaming them, why don’t they sue us?

Or did they try that once before and run away from their case when the truth became too uncomfortable?

My post was about Sami Al-Arain, genius. Not about CAIR. I never said you lied about CAIR, but about Al-Arian. Do you know how to read?

As for Anti-CAIR suing Subhani for defaming us? Not a chance. After many years of following CAIR’s lap dogs, we’ve found that they do more damage to their organization than we ever could.

We hope that Subhani continues to stand up for Islamic terrorists and terrorist supporting groups like CAIR.

Gee, thanks for not suing me (???). And why would you hope that I continue to stand up for Islamic terrorists? That's like me saying I hope you continue to be a blatant idiot. I wouldn't hope for that. It seems like you want me to be an Islamic terrorist or to become one. Based upon my own writings you would have to be a moron to think that was going to happen. But I won't put that past you, Andy.