Tarek Fatah

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FATAH: Karima fled Pakistan for her life, only to see it end in Canada

Perhaps in the distant future when Balochistan attains its long-sought-after freedom from Pakistan’s occupation, a filmmaker will be inspired to make an epic called “Karima, the story of Balochistan.”

December 23, 2020 Columnists

Karima Baloch, 32 photographed in Toronto, Ont. on Thursday January 7, 2016.

FATAH: China’s troops trained in Canada against which country?

If you haven’t yet read about the scandal of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau allowing China’s communist-led military to train in winter warfare, you’ve got to be living in Chinese-occupied Tibet or inside China’s concentration camps for its Uighur Muslim minority.

December 16, 2020 Columnists

Canadian and Chinese flags are seen prior to a meeting with Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and China's President Xi Jinping at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, Dec. 5, 2017.

FATAH: Trudeau’s hypocrisy on India protests speaks volumes

Back in the 1970s, Irish American support for the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and Irish terrorism came in many forms.

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December 9, 2020 Columnists

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attends a news conference at Rideau Cottage, as efforts continue to help slow the spread of COVID-19, in Ottawa, Nov. 20, 2020.

FATAH: Who will utter the words 'Islamist terrorism?'

While the whole world unites in the struggle to put an end to the COVID-19 pandemic, another scourge continues to spread unabated, morphing itself into death and destruction with few willing to even name it, let alone confront its lethal message of devastation.

December 2, 2020 Columnists

The bodies of 43 farm workers are seen during a funeral in Zabarmari, Nigeria, on November 29, 2020 after they were killed by Boko Haram fighters. The victims were labourers from Sokoto state in northwest Nigeria, roughly 1,000 kilometres (600 miles) away, who had travelled to the northeast to find work. (Photo by Audu Marte / AFP) (Photo by AUDU MARTE/AFP via Getty Images)

FATAH: Ethiopia ignored by the G20

As the G20 summit of world leaders met via videoconference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to implement what the host country titled ‘Realizing Opportunities of the 21st Century For All’, across the Red Sea, Africa’s oldest country Ethiopia was unravelling with tens of thousands dead and many more uprooted as refugees.

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November 25, 2020 Columnists

Ethiopian soldiers rest at the 5th Battalion of the Northern Command of the Ethiopian Army in Dansha, Ethiopia, on Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2020.

FATAH: Bob Rae takes on China

The name Bob Rae has become synonymous with being the voice of the underdog and the voiceless ever since he came into the public eye as an MP, then MPP, Premier of Ontario, interim leader of the Liberal Party, the voice of the Rohingya Muslims of Myanmar and now Canada’s Ambassador to the United Nations.

November 18, 2020 Columnists

Bob Rae holds a press conference regarding his appointment as the next ambassador to the United Nations on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Monday, July 6, 2020.

FATAH: Yet another Palestinian sorrow

The sorrows that befell the Palestinian people continue unabated as the world seems to have abandoned them with the recent rapprochement between some Arab countries and the Jewish State of Israel.

November 11, 2020 Columnists

Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat speaks to the media after a meeting July 30, 2008 at the U.S. State Department in Washington, D.C.

FATAH: Trump's warnings about election fraud may prove true

As early as April this year, U.S. President Donald Trump raised the danger of “fraud” taking place if postal balloting was permitted. Speaking to media at the White House, Trump said “mail-in voting is horrible, it’s corrupt.”

November 5, 2020 Columnists

A counter-protester stands next to a woman holding a sign as supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump demonstrate near the Republican National Committee building after Election Day, in Washington, D.C., U.S., November 5, 2020.

FATAH: Hold your nose and vote for Trump — again

Four years ago, a week before the 2016 elections I wrote a column with the same headline, “Hold your nose and vote for Trump.” My case was not an endorsement of the trumpeter, but against Clinton who was facing allegations that she traded access to the state department in exchange for millions of dollars donated to her Clinton Foundation by unsavoury foreign kingdoms and dictatorships.

October 31, 2020 Columnists

U.S. President Donald Trump gestures to supporters after speaking at a campaign rally at Green Bay Austin Straubel International Airport in Green Bay, Wis. on Oct. 30, 2020.

FATAH: Vive la France!

The horrific beheadings in France by Islamists is not the first time the country has been attacked by “Allah O Akbar” chanting warriors of Islam seeking martyrdom by killing the ‘kuffar’ — Christian, Jew, Hindu, Buddhist and Atheists.

October 29, 2020 Columnists

A forensic team stands in front of the Notre-Dame church in Nice, France, after a man armed with a knife fatally attacked people inside the church, Thursday, on Oct. 29, 2020.