Tarek Fatah is author of “The Tragic Illusion of an Islamic State” that was runners-up for the prestigious Donner Prize in 2008. His second book, “The Jew is Not My Enemy” won the Helen and Stan Vine Award in 2010.
Fatah is a columnist at The Toronto Sun and hosts a weekly Sunday afternoon talk show on Toronto’s CFRB NewsTalk 1010.
Born in Pakistan in 1949, Tarek S. Fatah was a leftist student leader in the turbulent days of the late 1960s and 70s when he was twice imprisoned by successive military dictators.
In 1977, he was charged with sedition by yet another military regime and barred from being a journalist in the country.
My apologies to non-Hindi/Urdu speakers as there are no English subtitles to this unethical exercise by BBC Hindi’s Muslim and Leftist journalists in New Delhi.
The Muslim group best known for carrying out Female Genital Mutilation FGM on girls in North America has now launched a campaign to destroy Toilet seats to ensure Muslims only defecate the way Arabs did in the Seventh Century and not the…
HYDERABAD, India: A video has emerged showing a Muslim cleric in India leading a funeral prayer for the Kouachi Brothers, where he praises and endorses the mass murder of cartoonists and satirists of the French magazine Charlie Hebdo. According to…
November 1, 2017 Jonathan Kay Medium.com In case you haven’t yet had a chance to catch up on today’s Indian news, a second arrest has been made in an alleged conspiracy to assassinate Canadian writer Tarek Fatah. According to India Today,…
October 31, 2017 By Caroline Fourest It has taken me years to reveal the double-talk of the controversial Islamic speaker Tariq Ramadan. Since 2009, I have known that he has also led a double life, contradicting his many sermons on…
“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…
Canadian Bano Shahdady dumped her Burka and her Pakistani Husband. He came back disguised in her Burka, and killed her March 7, 2014 By John Goddard TORONTO—When her baby got a heart transplant at Sick Children’s Hospital, Bano Shahdady threw…
“Vote-banks, expensive suits, coloured socks and ethno-religious identity, not policy, drive today’s politics.” October 22, 2017 Tarek Fatah The Toronto Sun Just over 11 years ago, then-British foreign secretary Jack Straw wrote about his discomfort with the Islamic face-covering niqabs and…
“Around the world, numerous criminals have fled arrest wearing burkas, everywhere from London’s Heathrow airport to the infamous Lal Masjid armed revolt by jihadis in Islamabad. My plea to vote-grabbing Canadian politicians of all political stripes in English-speaking Canada is,…
“There is no requirement in the Qur’an for Muslim women to cover their faces: Muslim Canadian Congress, 2009” Sept. 17, 2013 Tarek Fatah The Toronto SUN: While Canada has been embroiled in the controversy surrounding Quebec’s plan to outlaw the…
Oct. 25, 2006. 09:27 AM Is covering women’s faces feminism? By Rosie DiManno The Toronto Star Oh, this is rich: a defence of the veil as feminist prerogative. What next — promotion of the chastity belt as post-feminist birth…
Just another day in the life of some women in the Arab World. Don’t ask me what is being said. Take it to an Inter-Faith industry expert and ask him or her to shower their insight on this brutality. Start with…
Bank robber calls Burka the perfect disguise NATIONAL CITY, Calif. – Elysia Roiz told 10News she was desperate for money to support her 2-year-old special needs son when she decided to wear a burqa to rob the Wells Fargo on…
Friends, British Muslim journalist Zaiba Malik had never worn the niqab. But with everyone from Jack Straw to Tessa Jowell weighing in with their views on the veil, she decided to put one on for the day. She was shocked…
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…
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…
Mar 7, 2002 updated Aug 31, 2017 By Daniel Pipes The niqab and burqa both should be banned on security grounds, because one cannot allow faceless and bodyless persons walking the streets, driving cars, and otherwise making use of public…
In 2016, during my visit to India, I was hosted by ‘India TV’ in their prime time current affairs show ‘Aap Ki Adalat’ (Your Court). Millions saw me being interrogated on Live TV and that discussion was repeated many times. Aap…
November 2013 – BBC Diplomatic Editor Mark Urban reports, Saudi Arabia has invested in Pakistani nuclear weapons projects, and believes it could obtain atomic bombs at will. He reports that “several nuclear weapons made in Pakistan for Saudi Arabia are…
“Three things mark the Khadr announcement. The government didn’t want to be associated with it. They wanted it done swiftly. And they didn’t want Trudeau on the same continent when the news broke” …
July 4, 2017 Tarek Fatah The Toronto Sun Two news stories concerning terrorism should make Canadians realize that not only are we being governed under the doctrine of ‘sock and awe’, but that our values have turned upside down in…
July 5, 2017 Farzana Hassan The Toronto Sun Ever since the Trudeau government’s reported $10 million-plus settlement with Omar Khadr became public, one aspect of the debate has centred around whether he was responsible for his actions at the age…
“Omar Khadr was the luckiest teenager in the world and remains one of the world’s most fortunate adults. Just how many times in combat does an enemy kill the unit medic and survive to be captured? Let alone that Khadr was…
July 7, 2017 Terry Glavin Macleans Magazine Well. That was quick. Only five days into a national bedlam of opprobrium and sanctimony that began with rumours that Ottawa intended to say sorry and shell out $10.5 million to make amends…
July 5, 2017 By Mark Bonokoki The Toronto Sun In the bombed-out and bullet-riddled al-Qaida compound in Afghanistan where Omar Khadr was the only survivor, albeit shot up and near death, U.S. military personnel found a very telling video. It showed…