Tarek Fatah
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Tarek Fatah is a Canadian writer, broadcaster and political activist. He is the author of Chasing a Mirage: The Tragic Illusion of an Islamic State (Wiley: 2008) that was shortlisted for the prestigious Donner Prize in 2009. Fatah's second book, titled The Jew Is Not My Enemy: Unveiling the Myths that Fuel Muslim Anti-Semitism (McClelland & Stewart: 2010) won the Helen and Stan Vine Book Award in 2011.

He is the founder of the liberal and secular organisation, Muslim Canadian Congress.

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RIM Asked to Hand Over Memogate Data to Pakistan Court

13 Comments | Posted December 31, 2011 | 12/31/11 12:45 AM ET

Research in Motion (RIM) and the Canadian High Commission in Islamabad have become the latest actors in the so-called "memogate affair" that observers believe is a slow-motion palace coup by Pakistan's military aimed at unseating the civilian administration of President Zardari.

In a decision on Friday, the Supreme...

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A Tree Called 'Kennedy': Happy 40th Birthday Bangladesh!

2 Comments | Posted December 16, 2011 | 12/16/11 07:54 AM ET

In the late hours of March 25, 1971, as the citizens of Dhaka slept, the Pakistan Army launched a war on its own people. By the time the sun rose, thousands of students in two university residential halls were dead and countless more lay wounded.

Dhaka University had been a...

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Burka Ban Triggers Feminist-Islamist Hysteria

213 Comments | Posted December 15, 2011 | 12/15/11 11:19 AM ET

The banning of the burka and niqab in Canada's citizenship courts has elicited some bizarre and hysterical reaction from Islamists, their leftist allies, and the liberal media.

Immigration Minister Jason Kenney's words had barely echoed across the country when the usual apologists of the Muslim Brotherhood agenda in Canada were...

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"A Man's Honour Lies Between the Legs of a Woman"

58 Comments | Posted December 7, 2011 | 12/07/11 01:02 PM ET

In Khaled Hosseini's soul-piercing novel A Thousand Splendid Suns, the character Nana, a poor unwed mother, tells her five-year-old daughter, Mariam: "Learn this now and learn it well, my daughter: Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam."

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Is a Palace Coup Unfolding in Pakistan?

Posted November 16, 2011 | 11/16/11 10:36 AM ET

A palace coup could be in the offing in nuclear-armed Pakistan as pro-Taliban army generals try to undermine democratically elected civilian government of President Asif Ali Zardari.

First indications that something foul was afoot in Islamabad came on the weekend when Pakistan's top four military officials, including powerful Chief...

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Hey Sikhs: Happy 543rd Birthday!

Posted November 10, 2011 | 11/10/11 12:24 PM ET

Today, millions of Sikhs and their friends around the world are celebrating Gurpurab, but few outside India know the significance of this day or its history. It's the 543rd birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev, the founder of the Sikh faith and one of the greatest symbols of pluralism and...

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The Enemy of America Is My Friend, No Matter What

Posted November 9, 2011 | 11/09/11 08:58 AM ET


It seems we Muslims have developed an entirely new doctrine that determines who is friend or foe and have added it as a new tenet of our faith.

A country could ride roughshod over its Muslim population, jail us, ban our language and religious practices,...

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Sharia Comes to Libya (Thank You America)

Posted October 27, 2011 | 10/27/11 10:05 AM ET

If George Bush's adventures ended up handing Iraq on a silver platter to America's enemies in Iran, President Obama's softer and gentler imperialism has been the catalyst that stands to deliver North Africa into the hands of the anti-American Muslim Brotherhood. Dumb and Dumber could hardly ask for a better...

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Gaddafi's Mob Murder: Arab Winter, Not Spring

Posted October 21, 2011 | 10/21/11 05:17 PM ET

If there was any doubt in my mind that the so-called Arab Spring was nothing more than a backdrop to a long winter freeze, that doubt was set aside by the gory scenes of the death of Col. Gaddafi, played again and again on TV networks. The mad dog of...

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HuffPost Exclusive: Sharia Banking Goes Bankrupt

Posted October 17, 2011 | 10/17/11 01:11 PM ET

The leading promoter of Sharia banking in Canada, UM Financial Inc. has gone into receivership without much fanfare. None of the nation's newspapers have bothered to report the development, despite the fact it could possibly affect hundreds of homeowners. Had it not been for...

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My Interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali (Video)

Posted October 12, 2011 | 10/12/11 01:35 PM ET

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