Tarek Fatah

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FATAH: Only the Bloc won - the rest of Canada lost

Canada has emerged from the 2019 elections bitterly divided into regional strongholds of political parties that has pitted resource rich Prairie provinces against the virtue-signalling regions to its east and west and a resurgent Quebec that has its own vision of a nation.

October 23, 2019 Columnists

Bloc Quebecois leader Yves-Francois Blanchet reacts after the federal election in Montreal, Oct. 22, 2019. (REUTERS/Andrej Ivanov/File Photo)

FATAH: Trump betrays Kurds, Canada's Liberals and NDP stay silent

To understand the betrayal of Syria’s Kurds by President Trump, one needs to have a grasp of the decision makers who today control the affairs of the state in America.

October 16, 2019 Columnists

A woman covers her face as she stands along the side of a road on the outskirts of the town of Tal Tamr near the Syrian Kurdish town of Ras al-Ain along the border with Turkey in the northeastern Hassakeh province on October 16, 2019. (DELIL SOULEIMAN/AFP via Getty Images)

FATAH: Jagmeet Singh won the debate - and now he has my vote

Monday night’s debate was at best a comedy of errors. While there have been questions about the dual citizenship status of a couple candidates, it’s only Jagmeet Singh – the Canadian born in Canada – who has been unfairly considered by some as not really a true Canadian.

October 9, 2019 Columnists

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh speaks at a news conference after an English language federal election debate at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Que., on Monday, Oct. 7, 2019.

FATAH: Pakistan threatens the world with nuclear war

Not since 1956 when Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev threatened the West with the infamous words, “We will bury you” have world leaders heard the head of a nuclear state brandish its atomic weapons to intimidate the world.

October 2, 2019 Columnists

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan addresses the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, on Sept. 27, 2019.

FATAH: Carry on Greta, but beware the millionaire Marxists

Every time Greta Thunberg speaks, she fills my heart with joy. As a parent of an autistic daughter, the courage of this Swedish girl and her ability to speak the truth as she sees it reminds me our own family’s struggles until the day we realized we had truth living in our home.

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September 25, 2019 Columnists

Youth climate activist Greta Thunberg speaks during the UN Climate Action Summit on Sept. 23, 2019 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City.

FATAH: Trudeau – fake and egocentric

It took an American magazine — TIME — to blow the lid on Justin Trudeau’s 18-year-old blackface secret, and now we learn from a British newspaper, The Telegraph, that our prime minister was lying to us even as he staged well-acted apologies.

September 23, 2019 Columnists

A video depicts Prime Minister Justin Trudeau again in blackface. (Global News)

FATAH: Is the 9/11 mastermind still a matter of public debate?

After trying and failing to cover up allegations of anti-Semitism of their Quebec candidate Imam Hassan Guillet, one would have assumed the Trudeau Liberals would be careful in making sure they vetted future candidates with links to overseas political ideologies or religious and racial causes.

September 19, 2019 Columnists

Sameer Zuberi, front middle, was spokesman for the Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations. (Postmedia Network files)

FATAH: 18 years after 9/11, our enemy is stronger

As names of the victims of jihad who died on September 11, 2001 were read out on Wednesday morning in New York , it occurred to me that a crucial aspect of remembering the tragedy was missing.

September 11, 2019 Columnists

A lei is placed at the 9/11 during the September 11 Commemoration Ceremony at the at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2019, in New York.

FATAH: Multiculturalism is being manipulated to harm Canada

One would have to be politically blind and deaf if they haven’t noticed the increasing role of foreign countries and ideologies playing out a divisive role in Canadian politics.

September 4, 2019 Columnists

FATAH: Rejecting hijab dooms woman to 24 years in prison

You may never have heard of Saba Kord-Afshari, but the 20-year-old Iranian woman was sentenced to 24 years in prison by the Islamic Republic of Iran on Monday for the crime of defying the country’s ‘hijab law’ that forbids all women in Iran from displaying their uncovered head in public.

August 29, 2019 Columnists