Tarek Fatah

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FATAH: Why Shariah mortgage is a deception

Last week’s Ontario Superior Court judgment exonerating two men for a dozen criminal charges related to the marketing of Islamic mortgages based on Shariah law went unreported in all Canadian newspapers and network TV other than the online pages of CBC News.

June 12, 2019 Columnists

FATAH: Shariah law makes a comeback in Ontario

Two Muslim men — an activist turned Shariah mortgage seller and an Islamic cleric who sold his Islamic seal of approval on such mortgages — were acquitted on Friday of a dozen criminal charges by an Ontario Superior Court judge who validated aspects of Sharia law in reaching her decision. Justice Jane Ferguson described the trial as a “huge learning curve in Islamic finance.”

June 11, 2019 Columnists

FATAH: Don’t understand cricket? Ask Sir John A. Macdonald

While the crowds at Toronto’s Jurassic Park are a good gauge of the enthusiasm of seeing world-class basketball as the Raptors face the Golden State Warriors, there was almost no measure to reflect the many Canadians watching the Cricket World Cup currently underway in England.

June 4, 2019 Columnists

Sri Lanka's Lasith Malinga celebrates taking the wicket of Afghanistan's Hamid Hasan for six runs during the 2019 Cricket World Cup at Sophia Gardens stadium in Cardiff on June 4, 2019. (GEOFF CADDICK/AFP/Getty Images)

FATAH: Canada should embrace the new India

Few politicians have endured the hostility of their country’s liberal and left-wing elite and come back to knock them out like Muhammad Ali floored Sonny Liston in his 1965 heavyweight boxing match.

May 28, 2019 Columnists

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi waves to supporters at the Trade Facilitation Centre and Crafts Museum after offering prayers at the famous Kashi Vishwanath temple, in Varanasi on May 27, 2019.

FATAH: They should've called it the Christchurch-Colombo Call for Action

Oscar Wilde once said, “When good Americans die, they go to Paris.” Maybe that is the reason there were no Americans at last week’s Paris Summit hosted by President Emmanuel Macron of France and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand to “curb online extremism.”

May 21, 2019 Columnists

In this March 23, 2019 file photo, worshippers prepare to enter the Al Noor mosque a week after a mass shooting in Christchurch, New Zealand.

FATAH: Why Trump needs to cool it over Iran

As the Middle East reverberates towards yet another conflict, few people remember that in June 1982 when Israel invaded Lebanon to drive out the Palestinians, the IDF was welcomed by cheering Shia Lebanese crowds in South Lebanon.

May 14, 2019 Columnists

President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Slovak Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, May 3, 2019, in Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

FATAH: Holocaust Memorial Day - this time with an ethnic twist

Having attended various Holocaust Remembrance Days over the years, visiting Auschwitz and the concentration camp of Majdanek, all while researching for my book, “The Jew is Not My Enemy,” I have rarely come across Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists or Muslims in the mix.

May 7, 2019 Columnists

A crew member walks toward the National Holocaust Monument before the official opening in Ottawa, Wednesday September 27, 2017. Snowy days in the national capital could force the closure of the just opened National Holocaust Monument. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld)

FATAH: Islamist attacks still occur, but Canadian politicians don't denounce them

Riyas Aboobacker and Mark Steven Domingo do not know each other.

April 30, 2019 Columnists

Sri Lankans watch as soldiers clear the debris from inside of the damaged St. Anthony's Church after it was targeted in a series of Islamic State-claimed suicide bombings that killed hundreds of people during Easter Sunday, in Colombo, Saturday, April 27, 2019.

FATAH: Why Islamic terrorists slaughtered Christians in Sri Lanka

On April 11, 10 days before the horrific attacks by Islamic terrorists on Christians observing Easter in Sri Lanka, the country’s Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Police sent out an urgent alert to government officials and security heads of all agencies.

with Video

April 24, 2019 Columnists

Security personnel inspect the interior of St. Sebastian's Church in Negombo on April 22, 2019, a day after the church was hit in series of bomb blasts targeting churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka. (ISHARA S. KODIKARA/AFP/Getty Images)

FATAH: Trudeau is perfecting the art of the ghetto

The curse of identity politics and ethnic vote banks in Canada has become the most racist aspect of our country’s slow and steady slide into the moral bankruptcy of our political values.

April 16, 2019 Columnists

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau bows his head before speaking at the Khalsa Diwan Society Sikh Temple before marching in the Vaisakhi parade, in Vancouver on Saturday April 13, 2019. (The Canadian Press)