Tarek S. Fatah is author of “Chasing a Mirage: The Tragic Illusion of an Islamic State” that was runners-up for the prestigious Donner Prize in 2008. His second book, “The Jew is Not My Enemy” won the Helen and Stan Vine Award in 2010.
Fatah is a columnist at The Toronto Sun and hosts a weekly Sunday afternoon talk show on Toronto’s CFRB NewsTalk 1010.
Born in Pakistan in 1949, Tarek S. Fatah was a leftist student leader in the turbulent days of the late 1960s and 70s when he was twice imprisoned by successive military dictators.
In 1977, he was charged with sedition by yet another military regime and barred from being a journalist in the country.
Bano Shahdady threw away her Niqab, only to be killed by her husband disguised in a Niqab March 7, 2014 By John Goddard TORONTO—When her baby got a heart transplant at Sick Children’s Hospital, Bano Shahdady threw away her burka (niqab).…
“Miles to go, sisters, before we rest. Until then, we hang our heads in shame.” March 11, 2015 Tarek Fatah The Toronto Sun This year’s International Women’s Day on March 8 was marked in India by the news network NDTV…
February 27, 2015 Islamist seized for praising Paris attacks The Local OSLO - Norwegian islamist Mullah Krekar was arrested at his home in Oslo on Thursday evening after telling Norway’s NRK that the Charlie Hebdo terror attacks made him “happy”…
A bloodied Rafida Ahmad with her husband Avijit Roy lying on the ground. He was hacked to death by Islamist Jihadis in Dhaka. DHAKA, January 26, 2015 - Bangladeshi-American writer and secular blogger Avijit Roy has been hacked to death,…
“The frustration of anti-Islamist Muslims was best reflected in the headline of an essay by two American Muslim feminists, Asra Nomani and Hala Arafa, that appeared in The Daily Beast days after the White House conference ended. The headline read:…
“The impact of the Islamization of the country will be felt in Bangladesh, before long it will spread to Myanmar, Thailand, India, and the rest of the region. Perhaps then, too late, the rest of the world will notice.” February…
“As if to reinforce the blindfold the Obama administration wears on these matters, we also learned from Eric Schultz, the White House deputy press secretary, that the the U.S. government no longer considers the Taliban as a “jihadi terrorist” group,…
“As western leaders lined up to pay homage to a new dictator in Riyadh, they pretended they didn’t know that just two weeks before his death, Abdullah’s government had lashed liberal Saudi blogger Raif Badawi 50 times for the “crime”…
In March 2010, the Friends of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre invited a group of Canadians to visit Auschwitz and other death and concentration camps in Poland. It had a deep impact on me and made me re-commit myself to fight…
January 20, 2015 Tarek Fatah The Toronto Sun As the world struggles to understand and cope with the rise of pan-Islamism and international jihadi terrorism within western countries, one thing is becoming increasingly clear. The success of the Islamists is…
HYDERABAD, India: A video has emerged showing a Muslim cleric in India leading a funeral prayer for the Kouachi Brothers, where he praises and endorses the mass murder of cartoonists and satirists of the French magazine Charlie Hebdo. According to…
“O Allah, pour patience upon Muslims, strengthen their feet and give them victory over ‘Qawm el-Kafiroon’ (Non-Muslims). “O Allah, give victory to our brothers the Muslims, the oppressed, the tyrannized and the ‘Mujahedeen’ (those who fight jihad against non-Muslims)”. January…
Tarek Fatah speaks to Pat Boland of the Sun News Network in wake of violent protests in Pakistan demanding the death of Charlie Hebdo cartoonists who survived the January 7, 2015 Massacre.
The Mayor of Rotterdam, Ahmed AbouTaleb who was born in a Moroccan Muslim family expressed his frustration with his co-religionists who live in the Netherlands, yet hate the freedoms Dutch society values. He told NOS TV on January 8, 2015…
To many Muslims, any image of the prophet Muhammad is sacrilegious, but the ban has not always been absolute and there is a small but rich tradition of devotional Islamic art going back more than seven centuries that does depict…
What can Muslims do to reclaim their ‘Beautiful Religion’? As people observe beheadings and savagery by ISIS, female genital mutilations and honor killings, the abduction of girls by Boko Haram, the execution of innocents in Iran, the slaughtering and…
One of the reasons I avoid attending Friday congregations at mosques is a specific ritual prayer uttered by most Mosque Imams just prior to the formal Friday prayer we Muslims refer to as the Juma’a. In the prayer, the clerics…
On the day after Christmas in 2014 while most of the country was opening their Christmas presents, about 10-20,000 pro-Sharia Muslim Canadians and dozens of Islamist speakers gathered in the Metro Toronto Convention Centre at what is labelled as the…
August 15, 2003 Amir Taheri The New York Post FRANCE’S Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin has just appointed a committee to draft a law to ban the Islamist hijab (headgear) in state-owned establishments, including schools and hospitals. The decision has drawn…
“In a rare, candid admission of not knowing what motivates the jihadists, Maj. Gen. Michael K. Nagata, commander of American Special Operations forces in the Middle East, said: “We do not understand the movement, and until we do, we are…