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Canadian Heritage committee —hatred against Muslims compared to the United Kingdom and the United States: Canada is the only country where Muslims took up the fight against sharia law in 2005. We said we would oppose it. We fulfilled the appetite of people saying Muslims are good people and they stand up fo
September 20th, 2017Committee meeting
Tarek Fatah
Canadian Heritage committee Well, it's impossible, because the moment you start to speak the truth, you will be called a racist. It's a dead end. You have to admit that a vast majority of this population are simply terrified at addressing any issue. Here I am telling you that 500 mosques 20 times a day are
September 20th, 2017Committee meeting
Tarek Fatah
Canadian Heritage committee Absolutely.
September 20th, 2017Committee meeting
Tarek Fatah
Canadian Heritage committee Here's the—
September 20th, 2017Committee meeting
Tarek Fatah
Canadian Heritage committee You address issues of bigotry against Muslims or Jews or Hindus or the aboriginal. You embrace the ideas of W.E.B. Du Bois in fighting racism. You cannot apply that to ideas and say that because there is bigotry toward Muslims, and I have witnessed that, and even now bar anyone f
September 20th, 2017Committee meeting
Tarek Fatah
Canadian Heritage committee Pardon? Yes. Your recommendations should recognize the right of a Muslim to publicly challenge what is rotten in Islamdom and to fight authority in the tradition of Martin Luther and Erasmus and before them, like the 10th century Persian Muslim saint, Mansur Al-Hallaj who was be
September 20th, 2017Committee meeting
Tarek Fatah
Canadian Heritage committee Good afternoon, Madam Chair, members of Parliament, ladies and gentlemen. I'd like to talk about the issues facing us in the context of what is happening today and yesterday with regard to a Canadian city and a Canadian victim of terrorism and Islamophobia. Yesterday at the Uni
September 20th, 2017Committee meeting
Tarek Fatah
Foreign Affairs committee Why would anyone be reluctant to apply the law to charitable institutions that are not permitted to be political parties?
February 3rd, 2015Committee meeting
Tarek Fatah
Foreign Affairs committee Yes, I'm just going—
February 3rd, 2015Committee meeting
Tarek Fatah
Foreign Affairs committee No, no, no. I'm just talking of criminal activity and the violation of the charitable act. The abysmal cowardice of members of Parliament in urban centres who are looking for vote banks is such that they will look the other way just to get re-elected. Just to get re-elected, they
February 3rd, 2015Committee meeting
Tarek Fatah
Foreign Affairs committee I currently have a death threat being investigated by the Toronto police and the OPP—
February 3rd, 2015Committee meeting
Tarek Fatah
Foreign Affairs committee Yes, I am, right now, as I speak to you.
February 3rd, 2015Committee meeting
Tarek Fatah
Foreign Affairs committee To begin with, jihad has nothing to do with Islam. It's a post-Muhammad law. In fact, I would go to the extent to say that the enemies of the prophet Muhammad, who formed the Umayyad dynasty, are primarily responsible. The same people who slaughtered his family are primarily resp
February 3rd, 2015Committee meeting
Tarek Fatah
Foreign Affairs committee To begin with, the New Democrat members of Parliament who are Muslim share the same views as I do. They are members of Parliament primarily as politicians not because they're Muslim.
February 3rd, 2015Committee meeting
Tarek Fatah
Foreign Affairs committee We just ended up over here. I didn't come to Canada to be a Muslim. I came from Saudi Arabia to get away from the atrocities over there. So I have deep respect for not only the women but the gentleman, my namesake in your caucus, who is also.... They have a French background. The
February 3rd, 2015Committee meeting
Tarek Fatah