“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…
“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…
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…
April 5, 2017 Tarek Fatah The Toronto Sun In the latest terrorist attacks, a bomb blew up inside a St. Petersburg subway station, killing 14 Russians, barely a fortnight after a jihadi killed four people in London, England. Yet there are…
“That was the first Fidel, the hero of my teenage years when I spent time in the dark prisons of American-backed Pakistani dictators. But then there was the Fidel who failed me. He devastated my faith in his promised revolution…
“Instead of going back to the drawing board and wondering how a controversial figure such as Huma Abedin – whose family is alleged in a National Review piece as having “significant Muslim Brotherhood connections” – managed to get associated with…
“What should alarm all of us is the fact that the proponents of radical Islam have found space where they can bully our elected representatives into subservience, force our school boards into submission and strut their Islamist ideology to force…
Christopher Hitchens is said to have described “Islamophobia” as “a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.” September 6, 2016 Tarek Fatah The Toronto Sun As if Islamist propaganda in our schools wasn’t enough, the York…
“If both swimsuits [the burkini and the wetsuit] provide head-to-toe cover, why don’t these Muslim women wear the wetsuit? Why do they insist on the burkini? After all, the wetsuit would meet all the silly requirements imposed by man-made sharia…
Friends, It is troubling to read Islamist-friendly articles being published as commentary in the liberal media around the world, from India to Indiana. Bias is one thing, but when op-eds are based on fabrication and total untruths, a line is crossed.…
“The fear of being labelled racist may silence many for now. But in the future there will be an ultra right-wing backlash in which innocent Muslims may well suffer. I remember the fallout when former British foreign secretary Jack Straw…
“This is the most offensive poster designed by the City of Toronto in years. Its intention seems to be to cover up the crimes of Islamists and distract Canadians from seeing the real threat to our society — Islamofascism, not so-called Islamophobia…
“Blaming guns for the Islamist murder of 49 people in the Orlando gay club, is like saying that Zyklon B gas was the cause of the Holocausts and not the Nazis.” – Chia Barsen June 22, 2016 Tarek Fatah The…
“Instead of falsely accusing others [Toronto Sun and PostMedia newspapers] of Islamophobia, perhaps [Haroon] Siddiqui should reflect on his own lack of contribution in fighting the forces of international jihadism. Perhaps the [Toronto] Star should as well, given its editorial…
March 30, 2016 Tarek Fatah The Toronto Sun Add Lahore as the latest entry to the list of cities to fall victim to jihadi terrorism. But there is an angle to this horrible act of carnage most have missed. My…
“In his carefully crafted speech, Obama talked about American Muslims strictly in terms of religiosity. As if there were no Muslim trade unionists or astronauts in America, no dancers or designers. As far as Obama was concerned, only mosques, minarets…
“If my actions have angered some Pakistani Canadians, may I suggest they examine their own consciences. They are defending a flag that symbolizes the 1971 genocide in East Pakistan and in part, the creation of the Taliban, terrorist attacks on…
“Both in its crude and barbaric jihadi variety, as well as in its more finely finessed Islamist propaganda, ISIS, al-Qaida, Taliban, Boko Haram and al-Shabaab could not be happier that the once powerful voice of Canada, a NATO power and…
“As horrific and detestable as the Saudi actions that included the beheading of human rights and democracy activist Nimr el-Nimr were, it was laughable to watch Iran’s hypocritical self-righteousness in response. Since 1979, Iran has executed tens of thousands of…
“As 2015 draws to a close, the number of terrorist killings this year has reached 378, meaning there was an average of just over one terrorist attack every day. Hundreds have died across the globe and invariably the killers are…
December 24, 2015 A Pakistani journalist’s notes from Cizre in Turkey, where the Kurdish struggle for dignity is getting bloodier everyday By Kiran Nazish In October this year, I spent some time in the Kurdish city of Cizre in southern Turkey with…
“Let us make sure that before Islamist organizations and mosques poison their minds, they are introduced to Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Sir John A. Macdonald, Pierre Trudeau, Tommy Douglas, and to Voltaire and Rousseau. Let us help them understand the futility…
“The fact is all these refugees fleeing war zones in the Arab World could very easily be accommodated in Turkey and Saudi Arabia. Instead, while Turkey wants to dump them in the sea and hope bleeding-heart, guilt-ridden liberal Europeans embrace…
“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”…
