Tarek Fatah

Without fail, hardly a week goes by when news from the Islamic World does not embarrass ordinary Muslims worldwide.

On Saturday morning, a full-page newspaper advertisement stared at me.

On Sunday, the Swiss narrowly voted to ban all face coverings in public. The initiative behind the referendum was launched in 2016 by associates of the Swiss…

As hundreds die in Gaza once more, one cannot help feeling the pain of the Palestinians. They bury their dead children with no end in sight. Another ceasefire…

Where else in the world would a Catholic prime minister, the leader of its right-wing Christian Conservative opposition, the left-wing party headed by a…

If the sanctimonious and self-righteous mainstream media is to be believed, many Canadians did not celebrate our national holiday, Canada Day. A Toronto Star …

The latest news from Afghanistan reminds us again that the armies of the North can never bring freedom to the people of the South. Whether it is Vietnam or…

News that the mercury had hit almost 50 degrees Celsius in British Columbia reminded me of once reporting from Sibi in Balochistan in 1977 where it felt as if…

In preparation for the National Summit on so-called Islamophobia last Thursday, the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM) released a series of…

Following an unprecedented act of cyber warfare on the seas, at least six ships off the coast of the United Arab Emirates broadcast simultaneous warnings on…

When Canada and the United States surrendered to China’s recent hostage diplomacy, celebrations in Beijing over the return of Huawei’s CFO Meng Wanzhou showed…

While the rest of the world is distracted by the news of the Taliban pushing Afghanistan back into the dark ages, another conflict is brewing elsewhere in the…

Way back in the late 1960s, when the likes of Daniel Cohn-Bendit and Tariq Ali marched through the streets of Paris and London demanding an end to wars and…

If one were to rely on just the mainstream media, one would be left with the distinct impression that the Russian invasion of Ukraine was the only conflict on…

For all its faults, the U.S. has much to boast about when it comes to the rights of women. And that struggle began early in its history.

President Joe Biden has condemned the “poison” of white supremacy in the “body politic” of the United States after an 18-year-old white gunman killed 10 people…

On June 6, hundreds from London’s Muslim community marched to the London Muslim Mosque as part of ongoing commemorative events to mark the one-year anniversary…

Most of us are aware of the countless beheadings carried out by ISIS during their reign of terror and horror in Iraq and Syria. Other Islamic terror groups…

Nothing reflected the dissonance between Canada’s First Nations and the Pope’s Apology Tour than the anguished and impromptu rendering of a song in Cree sung…

There is a revolution taking place in the ‘Islamic’ Republic of Iran, where the Ayatollahs have operated an Islamic dictatorship since 1979.