One of the reasons I avoid attending Friday congregations at mosques is a specific ritual prayer uttered by most Mosque Imams just prior to the formal Friday prayer we Muslims refer to as the Juma’a. In the prayer, the clerics…
“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…
This is a video from 1994 at a time when hardly anyone watched what Islamists were doing as they spread their poison ivy across the Muslim diaspora in the West. Here, Dr. Mohammed Malkawi, a.k.a. “Abu Talha,” is speaking at…
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…
What can Muslims do to reclaim their ‘Beautiful Religion’? As people observe beheadings and savagery by ISIS, female genital mutilations and honor killings, the abduction of girls by Boko Haram, the execution of innocents in Iran, the slaughtering and…
On the day after Christmas in 2014 while most of the country was opening their Christmas presents, about 10-20,000 pro-Sharia Muslim Canadians and dozens of Islamist speakers gathered in the Metro Toronto Convention Centre at what is labelled as the…
“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…
“I belong to an 800-member Yahoo! Group called the Toronto Freelance Editors and Writers. On Friday, I posted a version of this short essay titled, “Islam vs. Islamism,” which some members said they found helpful. For general readers the takeaway…
Individual freedoms such as the right to drink alcohol or consensual sex “threaten the whole society and its well-being. That is the spirit of Sharia. … Who can tell me what is more brutal. Somebody committing an act for which…
On November 24, 2014, I was invited by the Senate Standing Committee on National Security and Defence in Ottawa to speak on security threats Canada faces at the hands of Islamic radicals, and to give my opinion on the much-touted…
A discussion on Religion and Rationality between Islamist convert Hamza Andreas Tzortzis and Physics professor and author, Pervez Hoodbhoy took place at Pakistan’s LUMS University on February 26, 2012. Its worth a listen as it exhibits the tactics employed by…
“Mr. Gardee does not speak for any Muslim in this country. But he speaks for every Islamist in this country. You have to make the distinction. A Muslim is someone who practices his faith. An Islamist is someone uses the…
The author of this well researched essay is Dr. Jeffrey M. Bale, an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of International Policy and Management at the Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS). He obtained his BA in Middle Eastern and…
“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…
On the day ISIS beheaded Briton David Haines, I remembered my talk at IdeaCity in Toronto in 2011 where I touched on why the West is failing in its fight against Islamofascism. Thought I should share it with you. Ideacity, also…
Hi, As Pakistan faces new upheaval and the military struggles to find innovative ways to overthrow an elected government, just thought I should share this interview with Kiran Nazish, currently with the New York Times, but back in 2011 worked…
Listen to young Muslim Britons, raised and educated in the UK, defend the amputation of limbs, stoning of ‘adulterers’. Scary when you hear young women defending their own second class status etc. Obviously, the United Kingdom has failed and should…
Does Grover Norquist support Islamists in the United States, including Muslim Brotherhood operatives?
Michael Coren of Sun News Network on the controversy surrounding the ejection of a non-Muslim from a course teaching Islamic Preaching at a Canadian Univesity. After his monologue, Coren chats with Tarek Fatah on the background of the professor who…
“If the Awami League of Hasina is either pushed out of office by mass protests or in an election, be prepared to see another Pakistan emerge on India’s eastern flanks, with hard-core allies of the Muslim Brotherhood turning back the…
The documentary titled “Islam vs. Islamists,” was produced by ABG Films with $675,000 in public funds from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. It was originally slated to run as part of PBS’ “America at a Crossroads” series. However, after viewing…
