Furthermore, critics point to a statement made by Omar Ahmad ( a joint founder of CAIR ) in 1998 in which he said that Muslim Americans " have a duty to deliver the message of Islam " and that " Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant.

They trace their family tree to Abdal ( the first and founder of the Abdali tribe ), through Hajji Jamal Khan, Yousef, Yaru, Mohammad, Omar Khan, Khisar Khan, Ismail, Nek, Daru, Saifal, and Barak.

Omar Khaleefa has argued that the medieval scientist Alhazen should be considered the founder of psychophysics.

Omar Ahmad () was the founder of the Council on American-Islamic Relations ( CAIR ), a Washington D. C .- based Muslim civil rights organization.

He ranked second to Mullah Muhammad Omar, the Taliban ’ s founder and was known to be a close associate of Osama bin Laden.

Fergana also played a central role in the history of the Mughal dynasty of South Asia in that Omar Sheikh Mirza, chieftain of Farghana, was the father of Zahiruddin Muhammad Babur ( 1483 – 1530 ), founder of the Mughal dynasty in India.

Ruben Omar Pestano Lavilla, Jr., a listed terrorist of U. S. State Department, and founder of Philippine terror group Rajah Sulaiman Movement, was arrested in Bahrain on July 24, 2008.

In 1953 Omar Fontana, one of the sons of the founder of Sadia Attilio Fontana noticed a Douglas DC-3 that remained parked at Joaçaba Airport, near Concórdia, the whole weekend.

General José Remón was the man behind the scenes of several coups that ousted Dr. Arnulfo Arias from power, and arguably the true founder of the social reforming militarism that was later dubbed " Torrijismo " after General Omar Torrijos.

At Malatya, Razi met Shaikh Sehab al-Din Abu Hafs ‘ Omar al-Sohravardi, nephew of the founder of the Sohravardi order.

* Abu Mansoor Al-Amriki ( born Omar Hammami ), American-born member of the Somali Islamist paramilitary group al-Shabaab.

The Investigative Project on Terrorism reported that on August 7, 2007, a Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) agent testified at the Holy Land Foundation trial that CAIR was " listed as a member of the Muslim Brotherhood's Palestine Committee ", that it had received money from the Foundation ( conflicting with Nihad Awad's Congressional testimony ), and that co-founders Awad and Omar Ahmad were " listed as individual members the Brotherhood Palestine Committee in America.

" Speakers at past Socialism conferences include filmmaker and author Tariq Ali, actor Wallace Shawn, The Nation sportswriter Dave Zirin, writer Glenn Greenwald, journalist Amy Goodman, environmental writer John Bellamy Foster, The Nation contributor Jeremy Scahill, Iraq Veterans Against the War member Camilo Mejía, and Palestinian rights activists Omar Barghouti and Ali Abunimah.

An excerpt from the memoirs of Adrian Pelt states, “ during deliberations of the Libyan National Constitutional Convention, a paper drawing of a proposed national flag was presented to the convention by Omar Faiek Shennib ( distinguished member of the delegation from Cyrenaica ).

Born in Cape Town, Omar was a respected member of the Muslim community.

A member of the crew, sailor Omar Alberto Rupp, was killed.

Her father, Tengku Setia Raja Terengganu Tengku Hitam Omar, was a member of the Singapore royal family, serving in the Terengganu State Civil Service as the State Secretary of Terengganu ; he was exiled since the death of the last Sultan of Singapore, Alauddin Alam Shah, in 1897.

The surviving member of the pair of soldiers who stole Agatha's locket in Beetleburg ; his brother Omar was killed by the mechanism in the locket which suppressed her Spark.

Omar Bongo, who was President of Gabon in the late 20th century, was a member of the Bateke.

Kuby, with Kunstler, represented Gregory Lee Johnson, a protester who burned a U. S. Flag at the 1984 Republican National Convention ; Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, the blind cleric who headed the Egyptian-based militant group Al-Gama ' a al-Islamiyya, accused of planning and encouraging terrorist attacks against Americans ; Colin Ferguson, the man responsible for the 1993 LIRR shootings ( who chose to represent himself at trial ); Qubilah Shabazz, the daughter of Malcolm X, accused of plotting to murder Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam ; Glenn Harris, a New York public school teacher who absconded with a fifteen year-old girl for two months ; Darrell Cabey, a youth who was acquitted of assault on Bernard Goetz and successfully sued him for shooting Cabey ; Yu Kikumura, a member of the Japanese Red Army ; and associates of the Gambino Crime Family.

Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddien III also refused to accept that he was to ranked as the most junior member in line to be the Yang Di Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.

In 2003, a controversy arose around the case of NLG member attorney Lynne Stewart, who was charged with transmitting " terrorist communications " from prison for Omar Abdel-Rahman, her former client and mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombings.

The son of Mahmoud Ezzat, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood's ruling body, is married to an Abaza, the late Omar Suleiman's daughter is also married into the family and there are marriages with the Royal House of Muhammad Ali of Egypt and the descendants of Prince Mahmoud El-Yasgy.

Omar al-Bashir reappointed Taha as the Second Vice President of Sudan in May 2010 in spite of speculations that he would be replaced by a more hard-line NCP member or a Darfurian.

Their son, Omar Abdullah is also involved in state and national politics, and has been a member of the Lok Sabha and is the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir.

The Banu Hafs, were a powerful group amongst the Almohads ; their ancestor is Omar Abu Hafs al-Hentati, a member of the council of ten and a close companion of Ibn Tumart.

In 2012, Olympic Team goalkeeper, Omar Abu Ruways was arrested by Israel for allegedly being a member of a terrorist cell.

Omar joined politics in 1998, as a Lok Sabha member, a feat he repeated in subsequent three elections and also remained a Union minister ; he took on the mantle of National Conference from his father in 2002, though he lost his own seat of Ganderbal during the 2002 state assembly elections, and so did his party, the political mandate ; four years later, he contested once again from the same seat and won in the 2008 Kashmir Elections.

Fluent in over ten languages ( including Korean, Chinese, Turkish, and Persian, the last one learned especially in order to read works by Omar Khayyám ), Menzhinsky was the second and last member of the Polish nobility among the Lubyanka's leaders.

The Banu Hafs, were a powerful group amongst the Almohads ; their ancestor is Omar Abu Hafs al-Hentati, a member of the council of ten and a close companion of Ibn Tumart.

The outcome was as follows Ali Mahdi a member of the USC party and a Hawiye to be the president, Omar Arte Ghalid a member of Siad Barre's Government and an member of the ISSAC Tribe to be the prime minister, Abdulkadir Zoppo a businessman and a member of the Rahanweyn tribe to become the first vice president and Omar Hagi another businessman and member of the Darod Tribe to become the second vice president.

While Djibouti ’ s President Ismail Omar Guelleh has close ties with Ethiopia ’ s ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front ( EPRDF ), he has tried to maintain an even hand, developing relations with Eritrea.

Front cover of ' Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam ' translated by Edward FitzGerald ( poet ) | Edward Fitzgerald, illustrated by Willy Pogány

Malaysia's Election Commission officials announced Anwar won by an astounding majority against Arif Shah Omar Shah of National Front coalition and over Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi's United Malays National Organisation ( UMNO ).

Today it is led by President Ismail Omar Guelleh and is in a coalition government with Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy ( FRUD ) and other parties.

On 30 June 1989, however, military officers under then Col. Omar Hassan al-Bashir, with National Islamic Front ( NIF ) instigation and support, replaced the Sadiq al-Mahdi government with the Revolutionary Command Council for National Salvation ( RCC ), a military junta of 15 military officers ( reduced to 12 in 1991 ) assisted by a civilian cabinet.

With Omar al-Bashir becoming President of Sudan, the National Congress Party was established as the only legally recognized political party in the nation in 1998, with very same ideology as its predecessors National Islamic Front ( NIF ) and the Revolutionary Command Council for National Salvation, which al-Bashir headed as Chairman until 1993.

General Omar al-Bashir, and the National Islamic Front headed by Dr. Hassan al-Turabi, overthrew the Sudanese government led by Ahmed al-Mirghani in 1989.

Then mayor of Shilavo, Hassan Ali Omar, was arrested in July 1995, for allegedly being a member of the Ogaden National Liberation Front.

In the presidential election held April 8, 2005 Ismail Omar Guelleh was re-elected to a second 6-year term at the head of a multi-party coalition that included the FRUD and other major parties.

In 1999, President Hassan Gouled Aptidon's chief of staff, head of security, and key adviser for over 20 years, Ismail Omar Guelleh was elected to the Presidency as the RPP candidate.

Ala Bassam Abdullah Bani-Nimra, 13, of Salfit, killed by IDF gunfire to his head during a demonstration. Thaer Ali Daoud Omar Muala, 17, Amari refugee camp, killed by IDF gunfire to his head during a demonstration at Ayosh Junction.

Omar Samir Abdul-Hamid al-Mashni, 16, of Beit Our al-Tahta, near Ramallah, killed by IDF gunfire to his head during a demonstration following Friday prayers at Jerusalem ’ s al-Aqsa mosque.

* Omar al-Bashir, current head of state of Sudan, for actions in Darfur.

“ Sheik Omar Abdul Rahman uses New York as a base ,” said Mamdouh Beltagui, the head of the state information service in Egypt.

Pipes has accused CAIR of demanding that a billboard declaring Osama bin Laden " the sworn enemy " be brought down in 1998 as " offensive to Moslems ", denying bin Laden's responsibility for the Africa embassy bombings, calling the conviction of the 1993 World Trade Center bombers " a travesty of justice ," calling the conviction of the blind Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman a " hate crime ", calling the extradition order of suspected Hamas terrorist Mousa Mohammed Abu Marzook " anti-Islamic ", calling President Bush's closing of the Holy Land Foundation for collecting money used to support Hamas " unjust " and " disturbing ", praising and defending convicted murderer H. Rap Brown as well as convicted attempted murderer Adnan Chaudhry, and their LA office head calling Israelis " zionazis "; he also quotes the FBI's former chief of counterterrorism Steven Pomerantz saying that CAIR " effectively " gives aid to international terrorist groups.

His next column identified Peter Tatchell, British National Party leader Nick Griffin and Omar Bakri Mohammed of Al-Muhajiroun as the top three " hate filled bigots ", saying that Tatchell needed " a good slap in the face " and his " queer campaign army " should " pack their bent bags and head back to Australia ".

The two took on controversial civil rights and criminal cases, including cases where they represented Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, head of the Egyptian-based terrorist group Gama ' a al-Islamiyah, responsible for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing ; Colin Ferguson, the man responsible for the LIRR shootings, who would later reject Kuby & Kunstler's legal counsel and choose to represent himself at trial ; Qubilah Shabazz, the daughter of Malcolm X, accused of plotting to murder Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam ; Glenn Harris, a New York public school teacher who absconded with a fifteen-year-old girl for two months ; Nico Minardos, a flamboyant actor indicted by Rudy Giuliani for conspiracy to ship arms to Iran ; Darrell Cabey, one of the persons shot by Bernard Goetz ; and associates of the Gambino crime family.

Lieutenant General Omar Hassan Ahmad Al-Bashir (; born 1944 ) is the President of Sudan and the head of the National Congress Party.

There was only one leader for Afghanistan Mullah Omar, the head of Taliban who ran Kabul's political party until the US invaded on October 7, 2001.

Muhammad Ali's strength lay in the popular support of the citizens of Cairo, who looked on him as a savior from their afflictions ; and great numbers armed themselves, and with the sayyid Omar and the sheiks at their head, commenced to patrol and guarding the city at night.

The head of the Argentina's 1978 FIFA World Cup organizing committee, Omar Actis, was assassinated in August 1976.

He was prevented from taking further action by the local governor and direct order of Mullah Omar, although tyres were burnt on the head of the great Buddha.

200 delegates took part in the contest, which was overseen by the Hiran region's head of elections, Sadaq Omar Sabriye.

* Yusuf Garaad Omar – former journalist and head of BBC Somali Service

When Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddien III was proclaimed as the 28th Sultan of Brunei on 6 June 1950, he also became the head of the Islamic religion in the country.

Omar González succeeded Alfredo Guevara as the head of the ICAIC and remains in that position today.

Israeli troops are accused of using hooding in prisons in for instance Tulkarm ( where 23-year old Mustafa Barakat died while in custody, most of which he spent hooded ), Ashkelon ( death of 17-year old Samir Omar ) and Gaza ( death of Ayman Nassar ); many deaths in Israeli detention centers involved hooded prisoners, such as Husniyeh Abdel Qader, who " was held in solitary confinement with her hands cuffed behind her back and her head in a dirty bag during the first four days of her detention.

Jericho-who turns out to be Brigadier Omar Khatib ( called " The Tormentor "), the head of the AMAM-is picked up by Mossad agents pretending to be American intelligence.