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…
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Syed Qutb – Father of AlQaida: Obsessed with Sexuality & Contempt for the West
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The name Sayyid (or Syed) Qutb is synonymous with the agenda of the worldwide political Islamist movement. This Egyptian from the 50s and 60s, along with his Indian-Pakistani counterpart, Syed Abul Ala Maudoodi, are to Islamists today what Marx and…
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Globe and Mail report on Canada’s Muslim Communities: It’s the "Spiritual" vs. "Religious"
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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…
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"Why should the State tolerate the Burka," asks Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
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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…
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Toronto Star reporter writes about "shockingly anti-western views" of many Muslims
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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,…
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Farhat Hashmi: A Muslim scholar is in Canada illegally — teaching an extreme brand of Islam
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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…
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Saudi Arabia funds Islamists in Canada; $1.5 million annually to just one Toronto mosque
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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…
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Did Prophet Muhammad really say what they say he said? Muslims re-examine the words of their Prophet
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![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.](http://tarekfatah.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/0_01-160x96.jpg)
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…
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Hassan bin Talal: The Arab philosopher who couldn’t be King
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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…
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Rosie DiManno: It is absurd and repugnant to label critcs of Sharia as Islamophobic
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September 16, 2005 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 the 21st…
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Margaret Atwood and other Feminists write an Open Letter to Premier McGuinty: "Don’t ghettoize women’s rights"
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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…
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"Keep Sharia Law out of Canadian judicial system"
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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…
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Are mainstream NGOs failing Africa?
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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…
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NGOs: Enemies or Allies?
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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…
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All this ‘Civil Society’ talk takes us nowhere
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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…