“When I hear the Germans say that they maintain a very moral dealing with debt and firmly believe that debts must be repaid, then I think: That’s a big joke! Germany is the country that has never paid its debts.…
“As Philippe Legrain, senior fellow at the London School of Economics (LSC) says in Foreign Policy magazine … 90% of what Eurozone governments and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have lent to the Greek government after 2010 has not gone…
Friends, The U.S. Supreme Court ruling lifting the ban on Gay Marriage guarantees a right to same-sex marriage. This huge stride in universal human rights has come after a very long struggle. In 1995, I ran for a seat in the…
“It is true that for many Muslims, Islam is a moral compass that guides them in their daily, law-abiding lives. But for many others, Islam is intrinsically interwoven with the doctrine of armed jihad and the goal of ultimate Muslim…
“It’s the pen and the sword; the sword always wins.” May 20, 2015 Tarek Fatah The Toronto Sun On my way to Delhi’s Indira Gandhi airport Sunday night for a flight back to Canada, I made a detour to pay…
“Saudis have been very successful in convincing the West that it is not they who pose a threat to our liberties, but Iran. This notwithstanding the fact that as early as November, 2013, the BBC’s diplomatic editor, Mark Urban, broke…
“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…
“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 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”…
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…
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…
“The irony is the Jews murdered were from a sect that poses no threat to Palestinians. … it wasn’t as if these four rabbis were in IDF uniforms… No, these were simply men of religion, killed not for what they did,…
“We have to establish Islam (in Canada). I want to see Islam in every single corner of the city. I would like to see Hijabis, Niqabis (face-masked women) everywhere in the city. I want to see brothers (Muslim men) in…
October 22, 2015 Tarek Fatah The Toronto Sun A year ago when the words ISIS and ISIL had not yet entered our vocabulary, writing in this space I asked the question: “Have Islamist jihadis declared world war?” Well, now it…
“I dread the day Justin Trudeau is prime minister and Andrew Leslie his defence minister.” October 8, 2014 Tarek Fatah The Toronto Sun Jenan Moussa is a reporter for the Arabic language TV network Akhbar AlAan out of Dubai. For…
“If we cannot remove an al-Qaida war cry from the walls of Toronto, do we have any hope in hell in defeating ISIS?” Tarek Fatah The Toronto Sun On Sept. 3, the head of al-Qaida, Ayman al-Zawahiri, released a video…
“Islamic State is being formed exactly the way Saudi Arabia was formed when thousands of bloodthirsty jihadis rose from the Sultanate of Nejd and invaded the Kingdom of Hejaz, slaughtering the country’s citizens into submission in 1925.” Tarek Fatah The…
“A chameleon with close ties to Pakistani military intelligence.” September 3, 2014 Tarek Fatah The Toronto Sun Every country has an army, but in Pakistan it’s the other way around — the army has a country. From its inception in…
“Norway has been home to radical Muslims for quite some time. In one event in Oslo last year, 4,000 Muslim attendees raised their hands in support of sharia law and the killing of gays. A week before the protest, their…
“As early as 1377, no less a scholar than the eminent historian Ibn Khaldun wrote: “The Negro nations are, as a rule, submissive to slavery, because (Negroes) have little that is (essentially) human and possess attributes that are quite similar…
“On Monday, a day after an Israeli missile killed 18 family members of the Hamas police chief in Gaza, Iraqi men in Baghdad slaughtered 28 Iraqi women. There was plenty of fury over the dead family, almost none for the women,…
“…Israel should recognize that no amount of bombing Gaza by the Israeli Air Force will end this hatred. Killing innocent civilians and collective punishment are medieval practices, best left to the barbarians of Hamas and ISIS. Civilized people should resist…
“Today, 40 million Kurds are the world’s largest ethnic group without a country of their own. They also stand out as a Muslim community that has a culture of gender equality. Female fighters go into battle shoulder-to-shoulder with their male counterparts. After…
“The sooner we Muslims acknowledge this truth [not all of our history is as unblemished as our parents and clerics wanted us to believe as children], the better equipped we will be to join the rest of humanity as partners…
On the very day Dr. Qamar was killed, a former Pakistani ambassador to the United States, who also served as the country’s information minister, was caught on video making derogatory remarks about Indian politicians. Referring to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s…