Tarek Fatah

LATEST STORIES BY TAREK FATAH

FATAH: Is God on a leave of absence?

As hundreds of our fellow human beings die painful deaths every day because of COVID-19, and millions more suffer in self-isolation, it is painful to hear so-called ‘men of God’ asking us to pray for forgiveness and beg for mercy from the ‘most beneficent and most powerful’.

March 26, 2020 Columnists

An Afghan Sikh woman reacts near the site of a Sikh religious complex attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, March 25, 2020.

FATAH: The coronavirus reminds us that the world is one family

What prophets and philosophers could not achieve over centuries of preaching holy books read in sacred places of worship, a deadly virus can accomplish in a matter of mere months, if we let it.

March 18, 2020 Columnists

A man wearing a protective face mask crosses the deserted Rue de Rivoli in Paris as a lockdown is imposed to slow the rate of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in France, March 18, 2020.

FATAH: Bernie Sanders and the end of Sharia-Bolshevism

The men running Senator Bernie Sanders campaign for the Democratic Party nomination may have been oblivious to how ordinary Americans feel about his close relationship to Sharia-supporting Muslims, but the rest of the country, including liberal Muslims and Indian Americans, found his close association with more radical Muslims deeply disturbing.

March 11, 2020 Columnists

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders announces that he will be continuing his campaign for U.S. president at least through his March 15 debate with former Vice President Joe Biden as he holds a news conference in Burlington, Vermont, U.S. March 11, 2020.

FATAH: McCarthyism 2.0 and Sanders’ political suicide

In the early 1950s, while American troops battled the communists in the Korean War, another war was being waged against imagined socialists and communists within the U.S. Administration of President Truman.

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March 4, 2020 Columnists

Senator Bernie Sanders looks on during a press conference at his campaign office in Burlington, Vermont, U.S., March 4, 2020.

FATAH: 47 years after Wounded Knee, let's heal the wounds

Not long after arriving in Canada in 1987, years before we became official Canadians, a totem pole arrived in our home to honour this country’s aboriginal and indigenous peoples on whose land we planned to live our new lives.

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February 26, 2020 Columnists

A demonstrator raises his fist as he sits on a bridge overlooking an encampment of the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory, set up in support of the Wet'suwet'en Nation who are trying to stop construction of B.C.'s Coastal GasLink pipeline, in Tyendinaga, Ont., Feb. 26, 2020. (REUTERS/Alex Filipe)

FATAH: The larger question to ask during these blockades

Canada and its economy are being held hostage by segments of our First Nations who justifiably feel slighted by what they claim is a lack of respect over centuries that today has crystalized into the blockades of our rail networks.

February 19, 2020 Columnists

A Canadian flag hangs upside down at a railway blockade as part of protests against British Columbia's Coastal GasLink pipeline, in Edmonton February 19, 2020. (REUTERS/Codie McLachlan)

FATAH: Anti-Chinese racism during Black History Month

There were six or seven of us inside the hospital elevator when a woman tried to make a last-second dash to enter the car. Under normal circumstances the passenger nearest to the door stops the closing door to let in the fellow passenger. But not in this case.

February 12, 2020 Columnists

A man wearing a mask walks in the Chinatown district of downtown Toronto, Ontario, after 3 patients with novel coronavirus were reported in Canada January 28, 2020. REUTERS/Carlos Osorio ORG XMIT: GGG-TOR112

FATAH: Palestinians need a state, not statements

For the Palestinians, the year 2020 has begun just as the year 1920 had — marking 100 years of statelessness, except this time all hope for a country they can call their own seems to have completely dissipated.

February 5, 2020 Columnists

U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu participate in a joint statement in the East Room of the White House on Jan. 28, 2020 in Washington, D.C.

FATAH: A God in captivity

In 1978, fate would take me to what we Muslims believe is the House of God or Allah, the black cube in Mecca built by the patriarch Abraham and his son Ishmael on the instructions of the divine.

January 29, 2020 Columnists

Ayodhya, India. Architecture of Ayodhya, also known as Saketa, an ancient city of India, believed to be the birthplace of Rama. (Getty Images)

FATAH: Turkish ambitions threaten new conflict in Mediterranean

A new conflict is simmering in the Eastern Mediterranean that, to the untrained eye, may seem to be the Libyan Civil War. But it, in fact, has Turkey trying to re-establish its domain in the Arab World that it lost after the First World War, something that ended almost 600 years of Ottoman Turkish rule over the Arab people in the colonized Arab lands.

January 22, 2020 Columnists

Libyan Field Marshall Khalifa Haftar steps into a limousine as he departs from the Hotel de Rome on January 21, 2020 in Berlin, Germany.