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America, hold your nose and vote Trump – My column in today’s Toronto Sun

“A self-confessed lecher with a record of not being able to hold his tongue, Trump may very well sneak in as the next president of the United States. That’s because, as nasty as he is, presidential sexual escapades are not exactly unknown in the White House. For example, we all know about Marilyn and Monica, whose names are forever linked to two Democratic presidents most Americans admire.”

November 2, 2016

Tarek Fatah

The Toronto Sun

When the first roller coaster opened at Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York in 1884, it was meant to make one’s stomach churn as you went down 600 feet, before rising up to a platform and then returning via another carriage.

The 19th century American inventor of this ride, LaMarcus Adna Thompson, would marvel at some of the thrill-filled roller coaster rides in today’s amusement parks, but he could never have imagined the roller coaster that has become the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

Not that dirty campaigns and character issues were unknown in 1884.

In fact, the presidential election held on Nov. 4 of that year that elected New York Democratic Governor Grover Cleveland, was bested by controversy over the character of his Republican opponent, Senator James G. Blaine.

Just as the 2016 election has come down to character and integrity versus policy and programs, in 1884, Republican Blaine fought under the shadow of the “Mulligan letters”.

They were discovered by Boston bookkeeper James Mulligan in 1876, showing Blaine had sold his influence in Congress to various businesses.

A week from now we’ll know whether the latest scandal to hit Hillary Clinton — her amateur hour performance as U.S. secretary of state with classified emails — was enough to make her stumble in the final mad dash of the marathon presidential election campaign.

Added to that are allegations she traded access to the state department in exchange for millions of dollars donated to her Clinton Foundation by Saudi Arabia and other dictatorships.

Notwithstanding Clinton’s woes, her opponent, Donald Trump, is no knight in shining armour.

A self-confessed lecher with a record of not being able to hold his tongue, Trump may very well sneak in as the next president of the United States.

That’s because, as nasty as he is, presidential sexual escapades are not exactly unknown in the White House.

(For example, we all know about Marilyn and Monica, whose names are forever linked to two Democratic presidents most Americans admire).

If Trump wins it will be a nightmare for the American political establishment — in both parties — who feel they have a God-given entitlement to the corridors of power.

Just two weeks ago Trump was considered toast, with down-ticket Republicans distancing themselves from the man whose audio recordings would have sunk even the Titanic.

But today, Trump and Clinton are neck-and-neck, mainly because of two odd props in the year-long presidential drama that have sent the 2016 roller coaster into an unknown dark tunnel.

They are Clinton’s close, Saudi-raised aide, Huma Abedin, and her now estranged husband, former congressman Anthony Weiner, best known for sending pictures of his private parts to women, as well as allegedly sexting underage girls.

While Republicans were trying to point out the links between Abedin and a Saudi Islamist journal she co-edited for many years, it was her husband’s sexts that led to the discovery of thousands of emails possibly relevant to the Clinton case on a computer he shared with his wife.

It’s outrageous that emails that may have contained classified information could have ended up on the computer of a man who was allegedly luring underage girls for fantasy sex.

On Nov. 8, let this roller coaster come to a standstill, America.

Hold your nose and vote for Trump.

Let Hillary play with Bill amid the wealth they collected in the name of charity.

Indian Mulla Ansar Azeez Nadwi dressed in a Saudi frock, wearing a tell-tale Wahabbi moustacheless beard goes on a 30-minute rant against Tarek Fatah. Accuses Canadian author of being both a RAW and an ISI Agent

Note the guttural accent of this Indian mullah as he tries to pass himself off as holier than thou just by wearing a clownish mish-mash of a Saudi thobe and a Indian waistcoat.

It is said in Hindi and Urdu, “Kawaa chaley Hans ki chaal; Apni chaal hi bhool gaya.” [When a crow tries to walk like stork, he forgets his own walk altogether]. Now sit back and enjoy.

If this link does not work, then try the YouTube link below.


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Congress seeks to silence authors Tarek Fatah and Taslima Nasreen. Both writers attacked in India’s Upper House Rajya Sabha

On July 20, 2016 during a parliamentary debate on the strife in Kashmir and the press censorship imposed in that State, the leader of the India’s opposition Congress Party in the Upper House of Parliament, Mr. Ghulam Nabi Azad took an unprecedented swipe at Bangladesh-born writer Taslima Nasreen and Pakistan-born Tarek Fatah, describing them as ‘anti-Islamic’ non-Indians.

The attack came after both Taslima Nasreen and Tarek Fatah participated in TV debates to discuss the role of a Saudi-backed Islamic supremacist wahhabi preacher in India, Dr. Zakir Naik in fanning Islamic radicalism in Bangladesh, Pakistan and India, specifically in the State of Kashmir.

While asking for press freedom and freedom of speech, Mr. Azad ironically argued that both Taslima and Fatah be stopped from appearing on Indian TV networks and blamed the current Indian government for not silencing any discussion on Islam.

Here is an extract of Mr. Azad’s speech:

As bizarre as his allegation was, the Muslim Congress leader seemed particularly upset that both Nasreen and Fatah were vocal critics of the Islamists and Jihadis in J&K and identified themselves with Indian heritage.

The next day the Indian TV network ZeeNews hosted a discussion on this issue with spokesmen of both the ruling BJP and the opposition Congress Party where the secular Congress’s representative insisted we no one should discuss Islam on TV networks even if the acts of terror were being carried put by jihadis in the name of Islam.

Here is the discussion in two parts:

Part One:


Part Two:

Music, Radical Islam and Canadian Values – How Islamists bully Canadian School Boards into embracing their Medieval Agenda

“What should alarm all of us is the fact that the proponents of radical Islam have found space where they can bully our elected representatives into subservience, force our school boards into submission and strut their Islamist ideology to force Saudi Islam on to Muslims — some of whom may not be aware of their own rich musical history, especially if they have arrived here from India.”

September 7, 2016

Tarek Fatah

The Toronto Sun

Kellie Leitch

The debate about “Canadian values” — started by Kellie Leitch, one of the candidates for the leadership of the Conservative Party — erupted into the predictable insinuation that she was racist, xenophobic and guilty of the ultimate offence of the times: Islamophobia.

Fortunately, for her, it did not take long for the question of Canadian values clashing head on with medieval beliefs to erupt when the Globe and Mail on Tuesday reported on how a number of Muslim families in Toronto had taken their children out of music classes, insisting they “cannot allow their children to be in the same room where musical instruments are being played.”

The story revolved around Mohammad Nouman Dasu, a Quran teacher at Scarborough’s Jame Abu Bakr Siddique mosque, who led the campaign to ban Muslim students from being exposed to music.

It wasn’t just him. The senior imam of the mosque, Kasim Ingar, told the Globe and Mail: “We [Muslims] here believe that music is haram [forbiddenl]. We can neither listen to it, nor can we play a role in it.”

Imam Ingar, who also heads the Scarborough Muslim Association, added: “We do not compromise with anyone on the clear-cut orders and principles conveyed by the Prophet [Muhammad].”

Kellie Leitch and her supporters or opponents may not know that music; particularly instrumental music, pits two visions of Islam against one another.

Musicians in Esfahan, Iran.

One Islam embraces the sitar and sarangi of India and the qanun of the Arab world. The other vision of my faith is an essential component of the radical Islam of Saudi Arabia that also includes moustacheless beards, armed jihad proponents who restrict music to the beating of a dull camel-skinned primitive drum, known as the “duff.”

What should alarm all of us is the fact that the proponents of radical Islam have found space where they can bully our elected representatives into subservience, force our school boards into submission and strut their Islamist ideology to force Saudi Islam on to Muslims — some of whom may not be aware of their own rich musical history, especially if they have arrived here from India.

The late Maya Angelou, who wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, once said: “Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.” But then she was an infidel destined to burn in hell according to some Saudi-influenced imams of Toronto.

To those who are offended at the defence of Canadian values, I ask: How low will you stoop under the weight of white liberal guilt to accommodate those who hate music?

You, whose ancestors produced Shakespeare, will you let his love of music be mocked as a sin? The Bard wrote in Twelfth Night:

“If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.”

The hatred of music by radical Islamists and the Muslim solution to such contempt of our values reminds me of the Ottoman solution in dealing with the Saudis of the early 19th century.

In 1802, the first Wahabbi Saudi state attacked Iraq and ransacked the tomb of Prophet Muhammad’s grandson in Karbala. Later these Wahabbi fanatics occupied all of what is Saudi Arabia today.

The Ottomans, relying on their Egyptian army led by an Albanian general Muhammad Ali, struck back and after a long war, defeated the music-hating Wahabi Saudis in 1818. Ottoman retribution was swift and fierce. The Saudi capital of Dirye was destroyed and thousands beheaded. Suffice to say there was no ‘Last Post’ bugle call for the dead.

The Ottoman Turks dragged the defeated Saudi ruler Abdullah bin Saud back to Istanbul where they tortured him by playing music in his ears; the instrument being the lute, supposedly forbidden in Islam. Its is said the Saudi was driven insane by the music and was soon beheaded with his naked body put on display on the streets.

But that was 1818 and we are in 2016.

If it were for me, I would host a rock concert by a Muslim band in the parking ground of the car dealership next door to Imam Ingar and Mullah Dasu’s music-free mosque, of course after evening prayers are over.

Have Ingar and Dasu not heard of their fellow Indian A.R. Rahman who converted from Hinduism to Islam to sing and perform music like no other? I am sure they’ve heard of Nietzsche, who said, “Without music, life would be a mistake.”

Beware of the ‘Islamophobia’ Racket – Christian Arab school principal faces Islamist threats in Toronto area school in Canada

Christopher Hitchens is said to have described “Islamophobia” as “a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.”

September 6, 2016

Tarek Fatah

The Toronto Sun

As if Islamist propaganda in our schools wasn’t enough, the York Region School Board is now investigating allegations by one unidentified “community member” that an elementary school principal put “anti-Muslim” posts on her Facebook page. The story was flashed across the Toronto Star as its main online headline Tuesday.

In much of urban Canada, schools permit Muslim Brotherhood-inspired Islamist student groups to push their agenda among students.

But instead of cracking down on Islamism within our schools, we seem to be concerned about those who stand up to these purveyors of an ideology that creates the pool from which jihadis of the future are recruited.

Let us see what school principal in question, Ghada Sadaka, reportedly posted on her Facebook page that triggered this controversy. According to Toronto Star reporter Noor Javed, the school principal shared and commented on: videos purportedly showing violent “Muslim takeovers” of Paris and London; articles expressing concerns around bringing refugees to Canada, given their “terrorist sympathies;” and video of a Dutch Muslim mayor telling fellow Muslims, they can “f——” if they don’t like freedom.

In much of urban Canada, schools permit Muslim Brotherhood-inspired Islamist student groups to push their agenda

Nowhere does the report say Sadaka denounced all Muslims or peaceful followers of Islam, yet a single, unnamed individual told Star reporter Noor Javed, she felt the Facebook posts were “blatantly spreading hate” and so complained to the school board.

This individual claimed, “It is obvious” the person putting up the posts “has a dislike towards Muslims.”

I’m a Muslim and it is not obvious to me, nor does everyone share this anonymous complainant’s views. Mumtaz Khan of Markham, a father of two boys in the York Region school system, tweeted early Tuesday: “#GhadSadaka, how (is it) anti-Muslim post? How long Islamophobia will b used to silence reasoned voices.”

Instead of cracking down on Islamism in our schools, we are concerned with those who stand up to it.

Elaborating on his tweet, Khan told me, “At a time when almost every school in the Greater Toronto Area, including Markham, has Islamists operating under various names, it is unfortunate that Toronto Star would target an Arab school principal who was standing up to worldwide Islamic extremism.”

His views were echoed by Intizar Zaidi of Richmond Hill who tweeted: “Why is @TorontoStar painting schoolprincipal #GhadaSadaka as ‘Islamophobic’? She is against radicalism by Muslims. She is not against Islam.”

I asked Zaidi, a retired father of three adult children, to elaborate on his tweet. “I am shocked that anyone would read school principal Ghada Sadaka’s social media posts and conclude that she is ‘Islamophobic’,” he said.

Newmarket father of two, Amer Schezad, was also confounded by the Star report. He tweeted: “What a shame @TorontoStar @njaved does a bad job on a school principal #GhadaSadaka who was against Islamic extremism and radicalism.”

This is not the first time the Star appears to have acted as the voice of outrage by a small minority — in this case, one person — at the expense of the broader Muslim Canadian community.

I also doubt it’s a coincidence the Star sought out reaction to the story from the National Council of Canadian Muslims, but not from the secular, anti-Islamist Muslim Canadian Congress. The Toronto Star over the years has often handed over its comment pages to Islamists, to the exclusion of anti-Islamist commentators.

Christopher Hitchens is said to have described “Islamophobia” as “a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.”

Food for thought.

U.S. Congressman Gohmert backs an ‘Independent Balochistan’ | Mocks John Kerry as he reads my Toronto Sun column in the U.S. Congress on Mass Graves

“Lifting the Burka off the Burkini”- Column in Toronto Sun exposes the Islamist Agenda

“If both swimsuits [the burkini and the wetsuit] provide head-to-toe cover, why don’t these Muslim women wear the wetsuit? Why do they insist on the burkini? After all, the wetsuit would meet all the silly requirements imposed by man-made sharia laws that have forced the Muslim world to be permanently anchored in medieval times.”

August 31, 2016

Tarek Fatah

The Toronto Sun

In their hysterical reaction to the “burkini ban” in France, bleeding-heart liberals in the West demonstrated again how gullible they are and how easy it is for the worldwide Islamist movement to manipulate them.

In carefully staged theatre, the Islamists pulled off a stunt by making Muslim women out to be victims of white, male, armed police.

They tugged at our outrage whenever we see the state trampling on individual liberty, especially if the victim is a female.

Thus a video of a woman being beaten by a gang of Muslim men, somewhere in Europe or North Africa, barely raised an eyebrow, and didn’t make it to the front pages of any newspaper or TV network.
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However, the sight of a middle-aged Muslim woman napping in full body attire in 35 Celsius heat, with cameramen, being asked to leave the beach, or take off one layer of her burkini wrap, was enough to raise cries of racism, misogyny, bigotry and every possible human rights violation in the UN Charter.

One image, circulated on the micro blogging and social networking website Tumblr, best captured the logic of the left. It showed two women in almost identical full-body swimsuits, with the title:

“French Muslim in Burkini French Catholic in Wetsuit.”

Below the picture, the caption read:

“Only one will be asked to remove her swimming gear at gunpoint.”

To the defenders of the burkini, the picture illustrated Western racism and double standards.

To me, the picture raised a question:

“If both swimsuits provide head-to-toe cover, why don’t these Muslim women wear the wetsuit? Why do they insist on the burkini?”

After all, the wetsuit would meet all the silly requirements imposed by man-made sharia laws that have forced the Muslim world to be permanently anchored in medieval times.

That is when I had a eureka moment in understanding why the burkini is being pushed upon Muslim women, when for a good 1,400 years, we Muslims had no use for it.

The burkini is supposed to be many things, but above all it is a tool to “slut shame” western women, and Muslim women, who wear traditional beach wear, be it bikinis or a single piece swimsuit.

The objective is to project devout Muslim women as pious and pure females who are the guardians of the family’s honour, and to contrast them to non-Muslim or non-observant Muslim women who are of “loose character”.

As this twisted logic goes, the latter are sexually bound to a culture of immorality, cursed by Allah to, as infidels, burn in hellfire, for exposing their skin to entice men and trigger their sexual arousal.

American Muslim reformist Shireen Qudosi made a scathing attack on the burkini in a Fox News column.

She wrote, the burkini is an extension of the burka, which was “a totem of feminist oppression”.

The burkini, she said, was the result of “an abusive cultural conditioning” of Muslim women.

As for those who believe in the notion of “choice”, well, I’m sorry, but nudists should not have the choice to roam naked on Toronto’s lakefront or Vancouver’s shores; white supremacists should not have the choice to wear KKK bath wear while sun tanning, and neo-Nazis should not have the choice to have swastikas stitched on to their briefs or bikini tops.

Karima Baloch’s ‘Rakhsha Bandhan’ रक्षा बन्धन message to India’s PM Modi on behalf of the Sisters of Balochistan who have lost their Brothers to the Pakistan Military Occupation

‘Raksha Bandhan’ is an Indian festival which in simple words means the ‘Bond of Protection’. The festival celebrates the love and duty between brothers and sisters who may or may not be biologically related.

On this occasion, Karima Baloch, Chair of the Balochistan Students Organization (BSO) who is exiled refugee living in Canada, sent a message to Prime Minister Modi of India to adopt all the sisters of Balochistan who have lost their brothers to the killing or abduction by Pakistan’s occupying military. Here she speaks to Mr. Modi and ends with a ‘thank you’ in the prime minister’s mother tongue, Gujarati.

On Raksha Bandhan, sisters tie a rakhi (sacred thread) on her brother or adopted brother’s wrist. This symbolizes the sister’s love and prayers for her brother’s well-being, and the brother’s lifelong vow to protect her.

The festival falls on the full moon day (Shravan Poornima) of the Shravan month of the Hindu lunisolar calendar. Raksha Bandhan is primarily observed in northern and western India, Mauritius and major parts of Nepal. It is also celebrated by Hindus in parts of Pakistan, and by non-resident Indians and non-resident Nepalis around the world.

“Pakistan is a ‘Na-Pak’ (unclean) country that is a Brothel” – Late Khair Baksh Marri, leader of the Balochistan Freedom Movement

Late #BabaMarri's words on #Pakistan,
"Pakistan is unclean" "living in #Pak is shamelessness"#14AugustBlackDay. pic.twitter.com/asrAu5QBy3

— Jahán Balóc (@Baloch_World) August 14, 2016

Meet Aaron ‘Harun’ Driver, Canada’s latest Jihadi Terrorist who wanted to kill in the name of Islam and ISIS, the Islamic State

OTTAWA, Canada — Police aired a video on Thursday showing slain terror suspect Aaron ‘Haroon’ Driver railing against western “enemies of Islam,” a video they believe was meant as a precursor to Driver’s plan to detonate a bomb in a Canadian urban centre.

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Here is a transcript of the English-language audio on the video courtesy the Toronto Sun:

“Oh Canada, you received many warnings. You were told many times what will become of those who fight against the Islamic State. You watched as your allies in Europe and America had their bullets and bombs returned back to them. You saw bodies of the filthy French laying in their own streets.

You saw explosions in Paris and Brussels, similar to the explosions they were dropping on citizens of the Islamic State. You saw brave men and women respond to the call of jihad. You saw that each member of the coalition of crusaders was being punished for their aggression against the Muslims. Then, perhaps, you found yourself safe from retaliation because you ran away from the battlefield. No, no by Allah you still have much to pay for.

You still have a heavy debt which has to be paid. You still have Muslim blood on your hands, and for this we are thirsty for your blood. There’s a fire burning in the chest of every Muslim, and this fire can be cooled only by the spilling of your blood. Your war on Islam is not the kind of crime we allow ourselves to dismiss, to forgive or to forget, insha’Allah.

You will pay for everything you ever brought against us. Whether you drop a bomb or fire a single bullet, we will hold you accountable for this, insha’Allah. Whether you spend millions in the war against Islam or you spend a single cent, we will hold you accountable, insha’Allah.

When you creep an inch towards the lands of Islam or you set foot over its boundaries, we will hold you accountable, insha’Allah.

You call yourselves peacekeepers on this Earth, but (Allah) has already warned us against you. You’re nothing but mischief-makers, and all you do is spread oppression and corruption. So today is the day you experience what it’s like to be targeted for your belief, insha’Allah.

I give my pledge of allegiance to (ISIL leader) Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi … who’s called for jihad in the lands of crusaders, and I respond to this call.”