Author Archive for Tarek S. Fatah

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.

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown in TIME Magazine: "It’s not illiberal for liberal societies to disapprove of the veil"

by Tarek S. Fatah • October 14, 2006 • 2 Comments

Oct. 08, 2006 Nothing To Hide By Yasmin Alinbhai-Brown TIME Magazine For years, I have vehemently opposed the politics of Jack Straw, a leading member of Tony Blair’s Cabinet and former British Foreign Secretary. He has backed the disastrous war…

by Tarek S. Fatah • October 14, 2006 • 1 Comment

March 27, 2006 Masking the truth By Prof. Mohammad Qadeer Queen’s University, Kingston Globe and Mail, Toronto If you live in New York, London, Toronto or other cities of Europe and North America, you may have seen an occasional woman with…

by Tarek S. Fatah • October 14, 2006 • 7 Comments

September 24, 2006 By Dr. Mahfooz Kanwar The Calgary Sun I once supported multiculturalism in Canada because I believed, at the time, it gave us a sense of pluralism, diversity, and a variety of cultural and social customs. However, multiculturism has…

by Tarek S. Fatah • October 14, 2006 • 2 Comments

October 13, 2006 The Big Burqa debate By Ray Hanania YNet News As usual, the only people debating the wearing or not wearing of the obscene “burqa” are men. The voices of very few women have engaged in this high profile debate…

by Tarek S. Fatah • October 2, 2006 • 0 Comments

October 2, 2006 By TAREK FATAH The Globe and Mail Many Canadians are rightfully upset at the derisive manner with which Pakistan’s ruler, General Pervez Musharraf, mocked our soldiers serving in Afghanistan. Others are simply scratching their heads, not knowing…

by Tarek S. Fatah • August 28, 2006 • 0 Comments

Hello, This article tells you a lot of how the Islamist network operates in Canada. In the report, the ISNA spokesperson reveals what most Islamists feel about Canada. Kathy Bullock tells the Globe and Mail: “There is no definable Canadian culture,…

by Tarek S. Fatah • August 28, 2006 • 0 Comments

Friends, After causing the death of a thousand people and giving Israel the excuse of reducing parts of Lebanon to rubble, Hezbollah’s Nasrallah, says, Oops…I am sorry. He told a Lebanese TV: “Had we known that the kidnapping of the…

by Tarek S. Fatah • August 20, 2006 • 0 Comments

The name Sayyid Qutb is synonymous with the agenda of the Political Islamist movement. This Egyptian from the 50s and 60s, along with his Indian-Pakistani counterpart, Abul Ala Maudoodi, are to the Islamists today what Marx and Lenin were to…

by Tarek S. Fatah • August 19, 2006 • 0 Comments

Today’s Globe and Mail carries an excellent report on the composition of Toronto’s Muslim community. Sarah Elton, a CBC Radio producer, pens the piece. In a crucial departure from conventional classification of various Muslim communities, Elton, a Muslim herself, categorizes…

by Tarek S. Fatah • August 18, 2006 • 0 Comments

06/12/2005 Veiled Threats By Yasmin Alibhai-Brown The Evening Standard Last week when I was browsing in shops on Chiswick High Road, I became aware of awoman shadowing me, rather too close in that private space we all subconsciously carry around…

by Tarek S. Fatah • August 13, 2006 • 0 Comments

San Grewal is a Toronto Star reporter who first burst into limelight after 9/11 when he did a story on the hate being preached in Toronto-area mosques. Five years later, in the August 13, 2006 issue of the Toronto Star,…

by Tarek S. Fatah • August 12, 2006 • 0 Comments

July 17, 2006 Good morning Mrs. Hashmi A Muslim scholar is here illegally — teaching an extreme brand of Islam By NICHOLAS KOHLER Maclean’s Magazine, Toronto A controversial Pakistani scholar living in Canada who, critics charge, teaches her female students…

by Tarek S. Fatah • August 12, 2006 • 0 Comments

Hello all, Here is a story from the Ottawa Citizen archives. The writer made some specific allegations in 2004 that went unchallenged by those named in the story. The July 2004 reports says: “…Saudi Arabia has spent hundreds of millions…

by Tarek S. Fatah • August 12, 2006 • 4 Comments

Illustration showing Mohammed (on the right) preaching his final sermon to his earliest converts, on Mount Ararat near Mecca; taken from a medieval-era manuscript of the astronomical treatise The Remaining Signs of Past Centuries by the Persian scholar al-Biruni; currently housed in the collection of the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris (Manuscrits Arabe 1489 fol. 5v). This scene was popular among medieval Islamic artists, and several nearly identical versions of this drawing (such as this one [shown in detail below] and this one) were made in the Middle Ages.

August 5, 2006 Did Muhammad Really Say That? By Omar Sacirbey The Washington Post Jihaad Abdul-Majid has often found inspiration in the words and deeds of Islam’s prophet, Muhammad, from his acts of compassion and charity to his counsel…

by Tarek S. Fatah • August 12, 2006 • 0 Comments

By Nadia Al-Sakkaf The Yemen Times He is a man of thought who continuously displays genuine interest in the welfare of humanity. Internationally renowned for his efforts on behalf of pluralism and human rights, His Royal Highness Prince Hassan bin…

by Tarek S. Fatah • September 17, 2005 • 10 Comments

Sep. 16, 2005. 06:39 AM Sharia ban is fair, and not racist By ROSIE DIMANNO The Toronto Star The time has come for Canadians to be weaned off the teat of multiculturalism as a primary source of sustenance and self-identity. Surely, in…

by Tarek S. Fatah • September 10, 2005 • 1 Comment

September 10, 2005 The Globe and Mail Dear Mr. McGuinty: An important tenet of Canadian democracy hangs in the balance of your response to the matter of religious arbitration in the province of Ontario. While many Canadians may assume that…

by Tarek S. Fatah • September 10, 2005 • 2 Comments

Aug 12, 2005 By TAREK FATAH The Kitchener-Waterloo Record On behalf of Canada’s liberal and progressive Muslims, I appreciate Premier Dalton McGuinty delaying a decision on the use of “sharia” in Ontario’s Arbitration Act. However, I urge him now to…

by Tarek S. Fatah • June 25, 2005 • 1 Comment

June 21, 2005 by Patrick Bond, Dennis Brutus and Virginia Setshedi ZNet Magazine What’s on offer for Africa from the trendy but top-down initiatives called Make Poverty History and Live 8, and even the Johannesburg-based Global Call to Action Against…

by Tarek S. Fatah • June 23, 2005 • 0 Comments

By Ji Giles Ungpakorn International Socialism This article is an attempt to analyse the politics of the NGOs in Asia, using our experiences as socialists in Thailand as an example. Nearly 20 years have elapsed since the massive proliferation of…

by Tarek S. Fatah • June 23, 2005 • 0 Comments

January 5, 2002 by Aziz Choudry GATT Watch If there’s one phrase I could do with hearing less of during 2002, it’s “civil society”. I’m not alone. Many of my friends, community activists and organisers in a number of countries…

by Tarek S. Fatah • June 23, 2005 • 0 Comments

December 1997 by James Petras Monhtly Review By the early 1980s the more perceptive sectors of the neoliberal ruling classes realized that their policies were polarizing the society and provoking large-scale social discontent. Neoliberal politicians began to finance and promote…

by Tarek S. Fatah • June 22, 2005 • 2 Comments

June 22, 2005 Don’t succumb to imams, rabbis, and priests Ontario needs one law for all its citizens, regardless of religion By Tarek Fatah The Toronto Star In 1991, as the full impact of a recession hit the NDP government…

by Tarek S. Fatah • June 14, 2005 • 1 Comment

Tuesday, June 14, 2005 Page A7 Shirin Ebadi decries Islamic law for Canada By INGRID PERITZ Globe and Mail http://tinyurl.com/do3l7 MONTREAL — Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi, a leading human-rights crusader in her native Iran, took a firm stand against the…

by Tarek S. Fatah • June 12, 2005 • 0 Comments

Shariah based Arbitration is Racist and Unconstitutional Submissions by Muslim Canadian Congress:Review of Arbitration Process by Marion Boydhttp://tinyurl.com/86dy8 The Muslim Canadian Congress is a national organization that provides a voice to progressive Muslims who are not represented by existing organizations.…

by Tarek S. Fatah • June 11, 2005 • 0 Comments

May 14, 2005 By ESTANISLAO OZIEWICZ Globe and Mail The grand mufti of Marseilles is adding his voice to those opposed to applying religious laws in family matters, a practice Ontario is proposing to extend to Muslims in the province.…

by Tarek S. Fatah • January 15, 2005 • 3 Comments

September 21, 2004 Keep mosque and state separate By Nadia Khouri National Post http://www.nationalpost.com The irony in the Ontario government’s decision to consider allowing anIslamic shariah court is that many Muslims themselves oppose the idea.Muslims, like people of other faiths,…

by Tarek S. Fatah • January 10, 2005 • 0 Comments

Aug. 28, 2004 Argues it does not protect women By Tarannum Kamlani and Nicholas Keung The Toronto Star Marion Boyd is at the centre of a storm of debate surrounding proposals to use Islamic sharia law in family disputes. Ontario’s…

by Tarek S. Fatah • January 2, 2005 • 1 Comment

December 23, 2004 By MARGARET WENTE Globe and Mail http://tinyurl.com/3ref6 I could have sworn we had separation between church and state in Canada. I could have even sworn we had one law for all. But I was wrong. Because if…

by Tarek S. Fatah • January 2, 2005 • 3 Comments

December 22, 2004 By Khalid Hasan The Daily Times, Lahore, Pakistan WASHINGTON: A battle between progressive and conservative Muslim groups isunderway in the Canadian province of Ontario where the latter are demandinglegal cover for arbitration of disputes under Sharia law.The…

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