“Attacking journalists is a time-tested Pakistan ISI method used to intimidate the media into silence. Sardar, Niedringhaus and Gannon were not the only journalists targeted. In Pakistan, an assassination attempt was made on the country’s leading liberal commentator, TV anchor…
… I say, “Vote PQ to save Canada” “Between Marois, who is fighting against Saudi-based Islamism with her secular charter and Couillard, to whom this issue doesn’t appear to be a priority, I say, “Vote PQ to save Canada.” April…
“In my view, shared by all my Muslim friends, burqa is the single most reprehensible cause for keeping Muslims backward (it is synonymous to jehalat — ignorance and backwardness). The sooner it is abolished, the better.” November 3, 2007 Khushwant…
“Back in April, 1970, I remember how human ingenuity, teamwork and technology saved the crew of the badly damaged Apollo 13 spacecraft, and brought the astronauts safely back to earth as the rest of us sat on the edge of…
Tarek Fatah The Toronto Sun In the many trips I have had to make to Geneva, advocating on behalf of Balochistan before the United Nations Human Rights Council, I have made it a ritual to start my visit with…
“The problem isn’t just Trudeau. It’s the backroom boys who bubble wrap their leaders and make them appear as political Barbie dolls. As they stage-managed last weekend’s Liberal convention, Kiev was burning. Yet neither Trudeau nor his handlers thought it…
“Message to U.S. President Barack Obama: Please stop saying, ‘Al-Qaida is defeated.’ It’s not. It’s very much alive, and your policies are helping it stay that way.” Tarek Fatah The Toronto Sun Just when you thought amateur hour had run…
“Muslim scholars are caught in their own predicament. Most are willing to concede that historical timelines suggest Aisha could not have been aged nine when she became Muhammad’s bride. However, if they were to admit this flaw in the Hadith…
“Once we give up on the right to offend in the name of ‘tolerance’ or ‘respect,’ we constrain our ability to challenge those in power, and therefore to challenge injustice.” February 13, 2014 Tarek Fatah The Toronto Sun In February,…
Tarek Fatah, The Toronto Sun. It would have been inconceivable that any U.S. official, let alone a Secretary of State, would host a delegation from Serbia the day after mass graves were discovered in Srebrenica in 1995. Yet on Sunday,…
“Young women put on a hijab and go dancing, wearing high heels and lipstick. They wear tight jeans that show their bellies,” 75-year old Nawal Al-Saadawi, Egypt’s leading feminist, noted recently. She is bitter at how the covering of a…
“We are tired of being marginalized. We came to Canada to integrate, but it seems officials at the TDSB would like us to segregate ourselves into ghettoes.” Those are the words of Suban Abdullahi, mother of two kids in the…
“… not all diplomats are created equal. U.S. diplomats can get away with murder as was the case when one of them shot dead a Pakistani man in broad daylight. Another U.S. diplomat in Kenya killed a Kenyan in a…
“As a first step we will have to unlock our language and learn, once more, how to call a spade a spade. The worldwide cancer of terrorism by some Muslims is inspired by the teachings of Islam. To deny this…
“This is the year (2014) that Indian and U.S. interests are supposed to converge, considering the vacuum left behind after America’s defeat in Afghanistan that has left the Taliban and al-Qaida greatly strengthened. But all that is now in jeopardy.…
Friends. Many Pakistanis ask why it is only now, 42 years after the Genocide in Bangladesh by the Pakistan Army that war crimes trials have taken place and collaborators of the Pakistan Army are being convicted, including Abdul Quader Molla…
“Africans have failed Mandela in many ways. Inviting the Chinese dictators to honour the great man is just one of those faults. However, in merchandising Mandela to the world as a fashionable fetish, the rest of us have also let…
December 4, 2013 Tarek Fatah The Toronto Sun While much of the world is focused on the 2014 withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, another major change is unfolding in the region. By the time the Americans have jettisoned their…
November 20, 2013 Finding Islam in the Hindu heartland Tarek Fatah The Toronto Sun More than 700 years ago, a Muslim saint was born in India, who laid the foundations of an Indian Islam. Today, that faith seems to be…
Today’s militant Islamic youth of Kashmir carry placards of bin Laden in anti-India rallies and hoist Taliban flags, while their Shia Muslim rivals are inspired by Khomeini and Hezbollah. A senior Kashmiri Muslim police officer confided “over 50% of Kashmiris between…
“Perhaps one question that should be asked during Islamic History Month is why so many Muslims leave Islamic countries to live among non-Muslims, while so few non-Muslims apply for citizenship in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan or Iran, the triad of countries…
“If Islamabad’s nuclear program was India-focussed, then why are they building ICBMs that can hit targets 7,000 km away? The furthest Indian city from Pakistan is no more than 1,000 km, yet this fact seems to be not making its…
“Malala Yousafzai deserves the Nobel Prize, not just because she epitomizes courage and freedom, but because in seeking freedom from the Taliban in the East, she has lost some if it to the public relations men in the West, who…
“Now is the time for Islamic organizations to state flatly in their weekly sermons from the pulpit: Just as slavery and concubines are permitted under Islam, but have been abandoned in practice by most Muslims, so too must the doctrine…
“Which begs the question. Who is the enemy this Toronto mural wants Muslims to fight against? Where is this non-Arab territory that this mural wishes us Muslims to conquer and be victorious over? Could it be Canada?” In the ongoing…
October 2, 2102 Tarek Fatah The Toronto Sun Omar Khadr is on record calling a black female soldier guarding his cellblock a “slave” and a “whore.” Yet today, feminists and human rights groups are rallying around him as if he…
Tavleen Singh writes on Hints of Islamist radicalism among India’s Muslim community: Now that things have calmed down enough in Muzaffarnagar for the Prime Minister and Sonia Gandhi to make a visit the time has come for some dispassionate…
Tarek Fatah in The Toronto SUN: While Canada has been embroiled in the controversy surrounding Quebec’s plan to outlaw the hijab as a headdress for its Muslim public employees, across the pond in the UK, it’s the niqab, — a full-face…
September 12, 2013 Tarek Fatah in the Jerusalem Post: In meeting with leading Jewish intellectuals in North America and some in Israel itself, I am struck by the lack of knowledge they have about Pakistan. The possibility of a future…
The annual ‘World Summit on Counter Terrorism’ attracted nearly 1,000 delegates from more than 50 countries ranging from India and Brazil to Canada and Australia to Herzliya, Israel. They included academics, intelligence officials, retired generals and police officials, and the…