Pls take time to read the whole article.
Fearing for safety, Muslim official quits
Tarek Fatah, the outspoken, controversial communications director of the Muslim Canadian Congress, has resigned, citing concerns for his safety and that of his family.
Mr. Fatah said he will also resign from the MCC's board, severing all official ties with the organization he helped found.
"It's not just for me. It's for my wife and my daughters," he said in an interview.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ ... ional/home
Fearing for safety, Muslim official quits
The above link in previous post required registration, as such my apologies and here-once again, is the total report. One thing to note here is the chap (Elmasry) leading the attack against Mr. Fatah is the very individual who, not long ago, had attacked the Ismaili faith.
Muslim mouthpiece quits, cites death threats
Jeff Hawkins, CanWest News Service;
National Post
Published: Friday, August 04, 2006
TORONTO - Citing threats against his life and the safety of his family, Tarek Fatah the controversial communications director of the Muslim Canadian Congress resigned Thursday.
Fatah said he will also step down from the MCC's board, severing all official ties with the organization he helped found.
''I am doing this because I fear for my life and the safety of my family,'' he said. ''I've had enough, I've spent too much time dodging the bullet.''
Fatah's outspoken opinions for the MCC's liberal views have continually upset the Muslim community, and in the past month he has been the subject of an e-mail campaign aimed at the Canadian news media.
In his resignation letter to the board, Fatah wrote that he wanted to step down because of ''an increasing heavy load of work.'' He said he will stay on in his current capacity until the MCC finds a replacement.
''It's a terrible loss but we completely understand where he is coming from,'' said MCC's secretary-general El-Farouk Khaki.
''It is unfortunate that we continue to be subject to these kinds of pressures for our safety,'' he added.
Along with his resignation, Fatah has filed a report with the RCMP detailing what he says are a number of threats he has received since 2003. A police investigation is under way.
Fatah has been attacked both physically and verbally, he said at an Islamic conference in Toronto in 2003, dozens of young Muslim men mobbed him while a cleric shouted out that he had insulted the Prophet Muhammad's name. In 2006, he said, he was accosted on Yonge Street by a man who accused him of being an apostate. His car windows were smashed.
On June 30, 2006, he was named by the Canadian Islamic Congress's official publication, Friday Magazine, as one of four leading anti-Islam figures. The article, written by CIC leader Mohamed Elmasry, described Fatah as ''well known in Canada for smearing Islam and bashing Muslims.''
National Post
Muslim mouthpiece quits, cites death threats
Jeff Hawkins, CanWest News Service;
National Post
Published: Friday, August 04, 2006
TORONTO - Citing threats against his life and the safety of his family, Tarek Fatah the controversial communications director of the Muslim Canadian Congress resigned Thursday.
Fatah said he will also step down from the MCC's board, severing all official ties with the organization he helped found.
''I am doing this because I fear for my life and the safety of my family,'' he said. ''I've had enough, I've spent too much time dodging the bullet.''
Fatah's outspoken opinions for the MCC's liberal views have continually upset the Muslim community, and in the past month he has been the subject of an e-mail campaign aimed at the Canadian news media.
In his resignation letter to the board, Fatah wrote that he wanted to step down because of ''an increasing heavy load of work.'' He said he will stay on in his current capacity until the MCC finds a replacement.
''It's a terrible loss but we completely understand where he is coming from,'' said MCC's secretary-general El-Farouk Khaki.
''It is unfortunate that we continue to be subject to these kinds of pressures for our safety,'' he added.
Along with his resignation, Fatah has filed a report with the RCMP detailing what he says are a number of threats he has received since 2003. A police investigation is under way.
Fatah has been attacked both physically and verbally, he said at an Islamic conference in Toronto in 2003, dozens of young Muslim men mobbed him while a cleric shouted out that he had insulted the Prophet Muhammad's name. In 2006, he said, he was accosted on Yonge Street by a man who accused him of being an apostate. His car windows were smashed.
On June 30, 2006, he was named by the Canadian Islamic Congress's official publication, Friday Magazine, as one of four leading anti-Islam figures. The article, written by CIC leader Mohamed Elmasry, described Fatah as ''well known in Canada for smearing Islam and bashing Muslims.''
National Post
“Killing a fellow Muslim accused of apostasy is considered an act of religiosity,” according to the group’s secretary general Munir Pervaiz.
The above is not random act and/or statement. The literalists are following teachings of their dogmatic Islam and glorifiy authenticated hadiths according to the Sunni literalist scholars.
Thursday, November 02, 2006
Progressive Canadian Muslim woman’s home vandalised
WASHINGTON: The veil controversy that recently surfaced in England has travelled across the Atlantic to Canada, where a Muslim leader representing a Saudi-aided organisation has said that “a woman should cover her face to avoid the unwanted attention of men for whom women are objects of desire”.
MD Khalid of the Canadian chapter of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) told Toronto Star this week, “I think if a woman is so pretty that she would attract attention to herself, she should cover her face.” He was commenting on an incident in which the home of Farzana Hassan, president of the Muslim Canadian Congress (MCC), a progressive group opposed by most Islamic clerics and conservative elements in the community, was vandalised after she criticised the veil as “a tradition, a tool of oppression created by men”.
According to leading progressive Canadian Muslim activist Tarek Fatah, ISNA is a US-based Islamic group that supported the introduction of Shariah law in Canada and has been the recipient of funding from Saudi sources - $5 million according to the Globe and Mail.
MD Khalid and ISNA are known for their endorsement of Stockwell Day, a Canadian politician who was described by one newspaper recently as “a right-wing Bible-thumper”. Criticising the MCC president’s position on the face veil, the ISNA director defended the niqab, especially for “pretty” women. When asked by the Toronto Star, “Only beautiful women?” he replied, “Very attractive women. It’s essentially trying to avoid any bad feelings from men.” According to Fatah, the harassment of Muslims who are standing up to Islamic extremists continues. Verbal threats have now progressed to physical ones. After being labelled the “sister of Satan” and accused of being an apostate, Farzana Hassan has now had her home vandalised.
The Globe and Mail’s disclosure about ISNA having received $5 million from Saudi sources also indicated that the group receives continued funding for its educational programmes from the same source. Among other views it expresses is one claiming that Muslim women have a religious obligation under Islam to cover their faces. Fatah said, “This is a lie that has gone unchallenged, except by Farzana Hassan and the MCC. No wonder she is at the receiving end of the extremist wrath. What is sad is the silence of Canada’s feminist movement, which seems to be paralysed, unable to stand up against the face-mask being thrust on Muslim women by Islamist men and women.” khalid hasan
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.as ... 006_pg7_42
The above is not random act and/or statement. The literalists are following teachings of their dogmatic Islam and glorifiy authenticated hadiths according to the Sunni literalist scholars.
Thursday, November 02, 2006
Progressive Canadian Muslim woman’s home vandalised
WASHINGTON: The veil controversy that recently surfaced in England has travelled across the Atlantic to Canada, where a Muslim leader representing a Saudi-aided organisation has said that “a woman should cover her face to avoid the unwanted attention of men for whom women are objects of desire”.
MD Khalid of the Canadian chapter of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) told Toronto Star this week, “I think if a woman is so pretty that she would attract attention to herself, she should cover her face.” He was commenting on an incident in which the home of Farzana Hassan, president of the Muslim Canadian Congress (MCC), a progressive group opposed by most Islamic clerics and conservative elements in the community, was vandalised after she criticised the veil as “a tradition, a tool of oppression created by men”.
According to leading progressive Canadian Muslim activist Tarek Fatah, ISNA is a US-based Islamic group that supported the introduction of Shariah law in Canada and has been the recipient of funding from Saudi sources - $5 million according to the Globe and Mail.
MD Khalid and ISNA are known for their endorsement of Stockwell Day, a Canadian politician who was described by one newspaper recently as “a right-wing Bible-thumper”. Criticising the MCC president’s position on the face veil, the ISNA director defended the niqab, especially for “pretty” women. When asked by the Toronto Star, “Only beautiful women?” he replied, “Very attractive women. It’s essentially trying to avoid any bad feelings from men.” According to Fatah, the harassment of Muslims who are standing up to Islamic extremists continues. Verbal threats have now progressed to physical ones. After being labelled the “sister of Satan” and accused of being an apostate, Farzana Hassan has now had her home vandalised.
The Globe and Mail’s disclosure about ISNA having received $5 million from Saudi sources also indicated that the group receives continued funding for its educational programmes from the same source. Among other views it expresses is one claiming that Muslim women have a religious obligation under Islam to cover their faces. Fatah said, “This is a lie that has gone unchallenged, except by Farzana Hassan and the MCC. No wonder she is at the receiving end of the extremist wrath. What is sad is the silence of Canada’s feminist movement, which seems to be paralysed, unable to stand up against the face-mask being thrust on Muslim women by Islamist men and women.” khalid hasan
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.as ... 006_pg7_42