Tarek Fatah

Casual Hate Against Tarek Fatah

May 25th, 2013

Chantelle Smith to Tarek Fatah: "wish you would had died of cancer you ugly paki"

Addressing the Muslim Anti-Western Narrative

December 31st, 2012

Unveiled: A Canadian Muslim Woman's Struggle Against Misogyny, Sharia and Jihad is a new book about which Tarek Fatah says: "The book needs to be read by anyone who has become exasperated by the ‘Muslim question’, be they Muslim or not." Michael Coren calls it "brave, resolute, informed, and essential reading". (Book also available on Kindle and Amazon).

The following excerpt is from a chapter entitled "Addressing the Muslim anti-Western Narrative" and is published with permission of the author, Farzana Hassan, a writer and commentator on Islam and Muslim issues who has been awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee medal for opposing radicalism.

"No nation which is big and influential enough to play an international role can claim a spotless record on the world stage (the Arabs themselves have been expansionist). The US has supported some brutal dictators in the past, but much less so in recent years. In fact, the much maligned Bush/Cheney philosophy vehemently opposed puppet regimes. The majority of Muslims contend that the US-led war on Iraq was waged simply for the US to gain access to Iraqi oil....More >>

Islamist in the White House?

August 22nd, 2012

Tarek Fatah digs deeper into the Muslim Brotherhood's worrying connection within the very heart of the White House, namely Huma Abedin.

Mainstream American media refuses to touch this issue with a ten-foot pole....More >>

Tarek Fatah Faces Down Islamist Fanatic on Twitter. Again

February 10th, 2012

Aiman Ayan (if that is his real name -- his Twitter handle is Aiman1979) wants Saudi writer Hamza Kashgari executed for blasphemy. When Muslim anti-jihadist Tarek Fatah steps into the conversation on Twitter, Aiman implies he deserves to share Kashgari's fate, too.

Watch the drama play out in the screenshots. It's a pretty typical run-in between an Islamist fanatic and a moderate Muslim intellectual. Fatah's best line: "@Aiman1979 U disgrace The Quran by asking for the death of a human being in the name of Islam. Who gave U that right? The Merciful?"

Tarek Fatah Canadian moderate Muslim

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Sharia Banking Goes Bankrupt

October 18th, 2011

With UM Financial in receivership, Islamists' efforts to build an alternative banking system insulated from the rest of the sector appears to have foundered on old fashioned financial mismanagement. Tarek Fatah reports that hundreds and potentially thousands of homeowners may be seriously out of luck:

UM Financial is in receivership, but that does not mean the end of Sharia banking in Canada. Far from it. There is just too much money to be made at the expense of a vulnerable and naive community for mainstream banks to not pay attention to their Muslim executives who are promoting this business. There are dozens of Western banks that have partnered with Arab Banks in this profitable ventrure where the depositor gets no interest on his or her deposits, yet pays 50 points above the market interest rate on their mortgage, as a supposed act of piety to please Allah, but in fact ends up enriching the banks.

It would seem that sharia finance is in trouble for precisely the same reasons cited by both economists and Occupy Wall Street protesters pointing at the failures of the conventional financial sector: greed and incompetence....More >>

Death Threats Against Tarek Fatah

March 10th, 2011

Note to the Toronto-area police. When a religious fanatic threatens one of Canada's foremost Muslim advocates of secularism and moderation, Tarek Fatah, do your job. Press charges.

On second thought, when a religious fanatic threatens anyone, press charges.

Best wishes on a speedy recovery, Tarek.

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Gender, Culture and Religion. Tackling Some Difficult Questions

September 1st, 2010

The Propagandist's own contributing writer Lauryn Oates will be joining Tarek Fatah, Aruna Papp, Morton Weinfeld, Alia Hogben and others October 1-2 in Calgary for the The Marsha Hanen Symposium on Ethical Leadership and Gender Equality, organized by by the Sheldon Chumir Foundation for Ethics in Leadership. The symposium's topic is Gender, Culture and Religion: Tackling Some Difficult Questions. From the Foundation's website:

The Sheldon Chumir Foundation is concerned with how we organize ourselves so as to live ethically well together – peacefully, with dignity for all and in mutual respect. Equality issues are central to our mandate. This Symposium will provide an opportunity for thoughtful engagement with one set of equality issues – those presented by the tension between gender equality and Canada’s cultural and religious diversity.

Registration details here.

In the spirit of this topic, today's Calgary Herald features Lauryn's op-ed

, What does misogyny look like? The image of gender inequality:

...In the guise of an objective position, relativism is nothing more than protection for selfishness and preservation of insularity. Relativism implies the privileges and freedoms we expect in the West are values that only we
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Ramadan Mubarak!

August 12th, 2010

Muslim kids, Ramadan, Christopher Hitchens The month of fasting has now begun, but it seems not even one month of the more ordinary kind has gone by since that September morning nine years ago without the eruption of some uproar that forces Muslims to the middle of it and obliges everyone else to issue opinions on the subject.

Now and again, a sensible voice enters the fray. It's quite often the voice of Christopher Hitchens. This month's rumpus is about plans to build a mosque in the vicinity of 9-11's epicentre in Manhattan, and again, what Hitchens has to say today may as well serve as the last word on the subject. He's had it up to the teeth with the "cheap appeals to parochialism, victimology and unreason" that have characterized this latest rumpus. Me too.

I do admire the case against the proposed Cordoba mosque that Tarek Fatah and Raheel Raza argue here, especially if this is true: "It's a repugnant thought that $100 million would be brought into the United States rather than be directed at dying and needy Muslims in Darfur or...More >>

Moderate Muslims Oppose Ground Zero Mosque

August 10th, 2010

In Why Ground Zero Still Matters to America, The Propagandist recently took a controversial stand against building the proposed mega-mosque in the vicinity of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center in Manhattan. Prominent moderate Muslims like Muslim Canadian Congress board member Raheel Raza and Tarek Fatah are now publicly opposing the Cordoba House project, laying into religious extremists and their politically-correct supporters.

"As a Muslim, I'm not buying that at all. How does building a mosque in the very place where Muslims murdered so many Americans create any kind of respect?" Raza says in a interview on The O'Reilly Factor.

"We don't show our caring for them by being intolerant. Building a mosque or a place of worship in the particular place across the street from Ground Zero is a slap in the face of all Americans," she adds. "Bloomberg and other bleeding-heart white liberals like him don't understand the battle that we moderate Muslims are faced with in terms of confronting radical Islam and Islamization and political Islam in North America, which has only grown since 9/11 because of political correctness."

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