August 18, 2010 Mischief in Manhattan We Muslims know the Ground Zero mosque is meant to be a deliberate provocation By Tarek Fatah and Raheel Raza The Ottawa Citizen Last week, a journalist who writes for the North Country Times, a…
September 27, 2007 Tarek Fatah The National Post Though few in the West have noticed the phenomenon, a significant and rapidly growing amount of money is now being managed in accord with Islamic law, the Shariah. According to one study,…
October 24, 2006 A small strip of cloth symbolizing Islamic separateness By MARGARET WENTE The Globe and Mail In progressive, tolerant Sweden, now home to 300,000 Muslims, the times are changing. The tough new message for immigrants: Learn Swedish and get a…
“…using the language of tolerance to justify oppressive practices is a grotesque perversion of liberalism. The veiling debate is a case in point. No amount of rhetorical sleight of hand can disguise the fact that the full-face veil makes women,…
October 20, 2006 Ladies as hooded bandits by Khalid Hasan The Friday Times, Lahore NEW YORK - The rumpus being created in the West by exhibitionist and deluded Muslim women, whose conduct flies in the face of clear Quranic injunctions…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…