Tarek Fatah is a paradoxical figure; indeed, he personifies the paradoxes of most moderate Muslims. He speaks out strongly against Muslim Brotherhood organizations and Sharia encroachment in the West, but is extraordinarily concerned at the same to absolve Islam of all responsibility for the crimes done in its name and in accord with its teachings. Around ten years ago I spent a day with him and others in New York, where among other meetings, we met with Roger Ailes and other Fox News officials. Fatah was an amiable fellow, but I began to grow disenchanted when he replied exasperatedly to Nonie Darwish’s pointing out that the Qur’an was full of violent passages with the now-common dodge that the Bible contains violent passages as well — as if the world were as full of Christians screaming “Jesus is Lord” and opening fire on crowds of non-Christians as it is of Muslims screaming “Allahu akbar” as they take out Infidels.
By the end of that long and eventful day I was extremely skeptical of Fatah’s sincerity. My suspicions were compounded when he attacked the courageous ex-Muslim truth-teller Wafa Sultan, in much the same terms that Leftists and Islamic supremacists use to smear and destroy those whom they fear and hate. He also engaged in sly apologetics to exonerate Islamic texts and teachings of any responsibility for jihad terror, rather than calling for and working for genuine reform — see Hugh Fitzgerald’s magnificent three-part takedown of Fatah here, here, and here. (The Sun News shows about which Hugh was commenting are gone from the Internet, but his articles stand on their own.) Fatah soon thereafter began to denounce me as a racist and bigot, which I expect coming from Leftist Alinskyites and Islamic jihad enablers, but was sheer opportunism and jockeying for market share coming from him. (Despite that, he showed up at a reception for me given before a speech I gave in Toronto a few years ago, pretending that we were friends and allies. I reminded him of his earlier statements and asked him why he had come; he had no answer, but I suspect it was because essentially everyone involved in resisting jihad in Canada was there, and he couldn’t bear not to be and lose out on a chance to appear to be an important player.)
And now there is a bounty on his head from the All-India Faisan-e-Madina Council, which only shows that the All-India Faisan-e-Madina Council, in its hatred, bloodlust, and savagery, doesn’t realize who its true friends are. In any case, however, this just illustrates yet again the uphill battle that Islamic reformers, and even pseudo-reformers such as Tarek Fatah, face: when they speak out against Islamic practices that have a foundation in the Qur’an and Sunnah, they’re threatened with death as heretics or apostates. That’s why we don’t see more Islamic reformers, even insincere and opportunistic ones.
“Muslim organisation announces Rs 10 lakh reward for beheading Tarek Fatah,” Hindustan Times, February 24, 2017:
A Bareilly-based Muslim organisation has announced a “reward” of Rs 10 lakh to behead Islamic scholar Tarek Fatah for allegedly promoting “un-Islamic” views through his TV programme.
The All-India Faisan-e-Madina Council also demanded an immediate ban on ‘Fateh [sic] ka Fatwa’, a television programme hosted by Fatah on a private news channel.
“Tarek Fatah is conspiring to disrupt harmony between Hindus and Muslims. He is as an agent of our enemies. He must be stopped at any cost and our organisation will pay Rs 10,00,786 to any person who will decapitate him,” said Moeen Siddique, head of the council.
“He and his programme are being funded by foreign enemies of our country and the government must initiate an inquiry against him,” Siddique said.
Fateh [sic], a Canadian national of Pakistani origin, is known for his secular views against Islamic fundamentalism.
“In his programme, he claims that it is not required to wear a burqa and terms triple talaq as haram. Muslims must not listen to his advice and come forward against him,” said Siddique.
Other Muslim social organisations too voiced their resentment against Fatah.
Jamat Raza-e-Mustafa, another social organisation that works under the aegis of Dargah-e Ala Hazrat, has written a letter to the President Pranab Mukherjee, demanding a ban on the television programme and expulsion of Fatah from the country….
Ian H says
Since India has essentially the British legal system I presume Moeen Siddique and his mates will now be arrested and charged with attempted murder for offering a contract on someone’s life. If not why not.
jayell says
If the Indian ‘British-style’ legal system went the same way as the Indian ‘British-style’ Civil Service straight after independence, I wouldn’t hold your breath.
miriamrove says
Indian legal system is akin to Sharia. Only it has a different name. M
gravenimage says
Things are *not* that far gone in India, miriam–only 13% of the population is Muslim. They do not have Shari’ah law there–not yet, anyway.
But the authorities do regularly appease Muslim savagery or try to ignore it–which is probably what they will do regarding this appalling death threat.
Anonymous says
If this goes to court, I wouldn’t be surprised if Tarek is punished for “offending the sentiments of a community”. There is no shortage of non-muslims in India eager to prove their ‘secular’ credentials.
I have watched interviews of Tarek; while he does absolve islam, the quran and their prophet of any guilt, he also unamiguosly attacks the actions of jihadis and islamist activists, simply taking care to add a clause that their actions are unislamic.
I have wondered why he does that and assumed it was to avoid a death sentence / fatwa like the one that haunts Salman Rushdie to this day. Appears that, for all the precautions he took, they didn’t help him much; the mullahs were still offended and he got the fatwa after all.
Christianblood says
gravenimage posted
(..But the (Indian) authorities do regularly appease Muslim savagery or try to ignore it–which is probably what they will do regarding this appalling death threat..)
You are right, Graven. No doubt Indian political elites are now deeply infected with the mental and cultural diseases that come from the politically-correct system known as liberal democracy and therefore Indian politics and Indian society and will be more and more like Swedish society or like other Western countries who appease islamists and call islam to be “the religion of peace”.
Graven, bit unrelated but yesterday an Al-Qaeda branch in Syria known as “White Helmets” have won an “Oscar” in the US and it is totally unreported even in Anti-Jihad websites in the West.
Please read more on the link below and watch the video on who the so-called “White Helmets” really are on the link below:
http://theduran.com/oscar-documentary-short-goes-isis-al-qaeda/
gravenimage says
Christianblood, your assumption that all appeasement is from Western sources is mistaken. Sadly, you find appeasement of Islam in many parts of the world.
Agnishtoma says
You seem to be an insufferable “Know it all”!!! We Hindus are still a majority. I’ve been living in India for 40years and my father for 75 grandpa for 96 years and belive me we never had Sharia law operating in the land. Check your facts before you shoot off your mouth.
Agnishtoma says
Just to show how absurd your blanket statement is, we can also conclude based on your statment, that because an Indian was shot a few days in Kansas by a nut job “White man”, white supremacists are taking over the law in the US under Trumps presidency. Is that true?? Just because a few idiotic clerics issued a fatwa doesnt mean India is following the Sharia.
Christianblood says
Agnishtoma
It is clear that muslim radicals were gaining more and more power in India in the last few years to the point where they now can pronounce a deadly islamic fatwas openly on Indian TVs like they did on this moderate muslim and that is undeniable. Hindu nationalists in India are more likely to attack peaceful Christians or Dalits but would turn the blind eye to muslim atrocities against their own Hindu people. love jihad is a good example of this.
Agnishtoma says
I too am a Hindu nationalist in the way that I want to protect my ancient culture and religion native to this land from getting obliterated. I don’t want to attack or harm anybody. Remember that west is under attack from Islam only. We are under attack from Islam openly and Christian missionaries clandestinely. Sometimes these missionaries start to interfere in everything like agriculture, temple festivals etc. They criticize Hindu deities with sweat words. But most Hindus are respectful to deities or prophets of other religions. It is then that those unfortunate things happen
Yes you are right about love jihad and clerics issuing fatwas on TV. But still what Miriam says isn’t true. We may have a flawed legal system that sucks. But still it is fair and is as humane as possible. Nowadays many Muslim women oppose oppression by Sharia
Agnishtoma says
As for Hindu nationalists attacking Christians and dalits than Muslims yeah you’re partly right anf wrong. It depends on the state. If you are in a state like uttar Pradesh and west brngal, yes what you say Is true. This is because the entire machinery of the state legal, police the social justice department are behind them. But in states like Maharashtra, Gujarat what you say isn’t true. Particularly in west bengal the chief minister is
Importing wholesale Bangladeshi Muslims and the demographic is getting changed. It is likewise in kerala, one of the states where the bulk of India’s “contribution to the ISIS” comes from. Back in the 40s both were strong Hindu states. But Islamic and missionary activity is changing thibgs.
Christianblood says
Agnishtoma
Dear Agnishtoma, you are right. Some missionaries could be somewhat annoying to Hindu in India by the way they do their missionary works but this is very small minority mostly from charismatic Christians but the overwhelming majority of Christians are not like that and are peaceful and non-judgmental and do a good humanitarian work among the poor. I think some of the Hindu Nationalists are becoming angry when poor Hindu untouchable Dalits convert to Christianity. In any case, Christianity in all its forms is not a threat to Hindu India and the number of Christians is very small there (may be 2 percent?) but Hindu need to be very wary about the spread of evil and dangerous radical islam in India which is spreading like a wild fire! One question I have is, in 1947 pakistan succeeded from India on the basis of islamic religion and yet you still have huge amount of muslims in India so how did that happen?
marina says
Tarek Fatah may have secular views. But he is still a Muslim. Cannot trust a Muslim.
gravenimage says
He’s a pretty iffy character, and an apologist for Islam:
“A brief debate with Tarek Fatah”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/05/a-brief-debate-with-tarek-fatah
Still too moderate for truly pious Muslims, though.
lolwut? says
It’s a game he plays to get us to lower our guard.
The Jihadists aren’t the real threat, it’s the so called “Moderates” who smile and gain enough trust so they can political power and once they gain that power and their numbers grow their true nature comes out.
The Quran actually teaches muslims how to behave in non-muslims areas while they are weak and to act EXACTLT like Fatah does until they are no longer weak.
Fatah is an Islamic Trojan horse like Raheel Raza.
Mac-101 says
So offering an award for the murder and beheading of a person is NOT a crime in India?
Janakiraman Rajalakshmi says
As far as India is concerned , a muslim can get away with anything. More so if he / she happens to be a politician , film star & so forth. Earlier it was one such muslim politician of Uttar Pradesh called azam khan that announced such a bounty for anyone (sic) “bringing the head of ” the Danish Editor who published a cartoon. That was during congress rule. Nobody took any action against him. He continues to remain in active politics . Several times has orchestrated many killings of hindus in UP that get brushed off as “communal riots”.
In West Bengal even Hindu nouns denoting Father & Mother have been supplanted by muslim ones like ammi & what not. The chief minister is one hell of an appeaser. It would not be an exaggeration to say all over India it is the same. Our history books written by leftists glorify all muslims who invaded , pillaged , beheaded , converted & ruled despotically. Hindus are told they came to usher in equality.
Indian film industry is under their control. Hence all films necessarily glorify them.
Though calling themselves ‘minorities’ they are substantial in number. Their votes supply oxygen for various politicians to survive.
Mac-101 says
It always amassed me that it appears to my uneducated observations that the Muslims have so much power in Bollywood, when a true Muslim should be avoiding it to the max!
Agnishtoma says
Well no less than Dawood Ibrahim funds the bollywood circus. And also we have the anti national pro pak Salman and Sha-Rukh Khans the Karan Johars etc etc. They always rope in Pak actors who dont condemn terrorism by their country and highly self arrogant. Their movies always paint Hindu culture in a poor light and Islamic culture as sophisticated.
Actually in the first place i dont know why people still watch “Islamo sickular” bollywood. I have watched only 2 films in the last 25 years. Frankly sick and disgusting films are made. On the other hand there are many local language movies industries that make far sensible films than Bollywood. Boycotting bollywood is one way to stem the Islami menace
Mac-101 says
Agnishtoma, Do the Muslim Indian movies have all the singing and dancing that Bollywood is known for?
Agnishtoma says
Yeah of course they have. Here’s the full link to the complete Islamic songs in Bollywood
http://muvyz.com/playlist/zo20270
I dont deny some of them do have good tunes. Also not many songs have the nauseating song and dance sequence. As i said Islamic cultures are shown as more sophisticated. Also look at the images below. See how police are respectfull towards mosques and how disrespectful towards temples. Not accidental, but planned acts emanating right up from the top politicians.
https://qph.ec.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-03dfe10ce981b961ee1f0a391325bdf3
https://qph.ec.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-20695b8b3f57f2ba7f13cb2150335031-c
Agnishtoma says
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Yeah of course they have. Here’s the full link to the complete Islamic songs in Bollywood
http://muvyz.com/playlist/zo20270
I dont deny some of them do have good tunes. Also not many songs have the nauseating song and dance sequence. As i said Islamic cultures are shown as more sophisticated. Also look at the images below. See how police are respectfull towards mosques and how disrespectful towards temples. Not accidental, but planned acts emanating right up from the top politicians.
https://qph.ec.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-03dfe10ce981b961ee1f0a391325bdf3
https://qph.ec.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-20695b8b3f57f2ba7f13cb2150335031-c
Mac-101 says
So how do the Muslims allow the singing and dancing since they are not allowed in Islam?
Agnishtoma says
Fortunately these guys are not Gung-Ho sharia supporters as they have tasted freedom. But in the eyes of the ISIS or Al-Quaeda these guys would be Takfiris and killed off
Mac-101 says
Agnishtoma, Thanks for the insight.
berserker says
All one has to do is examine the life of Muhammad to understand Islam: http://www.justislam.co.uk/images/Ibn%20Ishaq%20-%20Sirat%20Rasul%20Allah.pdf
Now compare him to any other major religious figure.
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
The Hindi word “lakh” means 100,000 (and “crore” means 10,000,000 = 100 lakhs). So “Rs 10 lakh” means one million rupees, which http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1+million+rupees+in+USD says is worth US$14,980. The “Rs 10,00,786” seems to be a misprint for 1,000,786 rupees, which is worth US$14,990. What’s the going rate for a Mafia hit nowadays? (But the Mafia doesn’t offer a decapitation service.)
Angemon says
Can we get Linda Sarsour to comment on this?
davej says
Typically they can’t limit themselves to a disagreement or debate but proceed immediately to beheading. Emotionally retarded Muslims regard the punishment as proof of their Koranic correctness, their “final solution” to all critics..
As others have asked, are there not laws against death threats and incitement in India?
RCCA says
What is always missing in the discussion about Islam by liberals is the degree to which reformers of Islam are persecuted if not completely annihilated in Muslim majority countries. Those on the left insist that the Islam practiced in the US is “different” when in fact it’s the same religion, but US Muslims lack the political power to impose and enforce sharia.
gravenimage says
India: Muslim group offers $15,000 reward to anyone who beheads Muslim “moderate” Tarek Fatah
………………..
It’s questionable whether Fatah is really a “moderate”, but he is clearly too close for truly pious Muslims, who target *anyone* who is not a full Jihadist.
Will India do anything about this? I would not count on it.
And while I would like to believe that Fatah is safe in Canada, there are so many Muslims flooding in there that this is no longer a sure thing.
Darryl Kerney says
I’ve found myself saying,
“see ? even Tarek says so !”
when reading his column in our local paper.
if this doesn’t show that someone like him who believes in much of what we do is, “not islamic enough”,
then what does that say about islam ? that it IS in fact what the jihadists keep saying it is. And while he may call himself muslim and the public accepts that, when a Bounty, in full accordance with islam, is placed on his head, literally, it’s a clear cut example demonstrating the basic brutality of islam. That guy over there insulted us, so we have to kill him,
so peaceful.
Keval says
There is a leftist youth muslim leader in India, Shela Rashid; she posted a facebook post claiming “Prophet was a feminist’; and can you believe Muslims in India lodged a Police complain against her for defaming the Prophet.
gravenimage says
It’s always grimly amusing when Muslim Taqiyya runs afoul of overt Muslim supremacism.
Shanbarani says
Robert, the sources of Intolerance in the Koran are rooted in the Old Testament – Forcible conversion was used as a tool by Christian missionaries, in Europe, Asia and Latin America. The Hindu colony in Armenia was exterminated by Saint Gregorius in 307 AD, using forcible conversion and he got sainted for this
The Portuguese in Goa, India, had the inquisition until 1810, when forced to end it by the British
Christian society has evolved and no longer takes the bible literally. The Goa Inquisition was started by Saint Francis , who got sainted for this.
Tarek Fatah is a cunning Taqiyah artist, trying to jettison the mad mullahs and trying to preserve the core of Mohammed and the Koran . His show is run by Zee-TV, a BJP / Modi sympathizing TV channel, in an attempt to de-radicalise Indian muslims – The mad reactions of mullahs is alerting the Hindu public, despite the Taqiyah spin effort – The show is wildly popular among Hindus , as various bearded goats ( mullahs ) get exposed on TV
gravenimage says
Jews and Christians are not committing violence in the name of their faiths. And I do not believe Fatah’s aim is to “de-radicalize” Muslims, but to convince Infidels that Islam is not really violent.
overman says
That would be st francis xavier and not the other one.
Truth Triumps says
Break the Mirror, if the Image of your face it shows is Not Beautiful!!!!!!!!!!! That is what it shows. Why the persons who do this beheading will get Gluttonous Jannat. Hee in addition to that Money Gain on Earth.
So Called Supremacistic Religion!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dacritic says
As far as I’m concerned, ALL Muslim reformers of Islam are a paradox and insincere. Their end-goal is always the same, absolve Islam from all blame for the nonsense done in its name. To me, in certain ways, they are more dangerous than “terrorists” like ISIS. At least ISIS is honest enough to show what Islam REALLY is like.
The more stupid people believe folks like Tarek Fatah, the more Islam can grow, and then we can never fail at getting more terrorists.
Sam says
Agreed %100. “Reformers” cloud Islam so people cant understand what evil this cult is.
mortimer says
Will CANADIAN POLICITICIANS pass a MOTION IN PARLIAMENT to defend the right of TAREK FATAH to free speech and freedom from ATTACK.
Sam says
He will still say “Islam has nothing to do with it”
Lets be honest guys. If someone says he is a muslim. He is totally ignorant or Evil. Either case he would be great danger to FREEDOM.
JW readers know Islam is not a religion but political tyranny. We gotta start calling it what it is. EVIL
tbb says
I have had the same doubt in Fatah from the beginning.
Considering all that he’s said in articles and interviews, i found it very odd how he could remain as an adherent.
I am now at the point where i can no longer trust a word from any muslim.
Pat Condell- Is It Too Late?
https://youtu.be/uSxCeIfPwhk