"Morality is doing what is right, regardless what we are told;

Religious dogma is doing what we are told, no matter what is right."

     Tarek Fatah hosted the weekly TV show, The Muslim Chronicle, for a decade. He has written for TIME and is a frequent contributor to the Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail, and the National Post. A lifelong thorn in the side of Islamic extremism has earned Fatah the ire of many Islamists worldwide. For his work and perseverance as a writer and broadcaster, despite numerous death threats and intimidation, the National Press Club of Canada awarded Fatah the 2007 Press Freedom Award. Earlier, Macleans magazine named Fatah as one of 50 people it described as "Canada’s most well known and respected personalities.” In 2002, he was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal for his work in the community.

Born in Pakistan, Fatah was a left-wing student leader in the late 1960s, during which time he was twice imprisoned by successive military dictatorships. He started his career in journalism with the now defunct Karachi newspaper, The Sun, before moving to the Pakistan television network PTV where he won a number of awards for his work as a pioneering investigative reporter. After yet another coup in 1977, the Islamist dictatorship falsely charged Fatah with sedition and had him expelled from the TV network. Fatah moved to Saudi Arabia where he worked for 10 years in the advertising industry while observing up-close the working of Wahabbi Islam and its global agenda, before migrating to Canada in 1987.

From 1989 to 2006, Tarek Fatah was an active member of the NDP, serving on the party’s provincial executive and federal council as well as contesting election for the Ontario Legislature on the NDP ticket in 1995. He also served as an aid to Premier Bob Rae during the term of the NDP government in Ontario. In 2006, Fatah left the NDP after protesting the increasing presence of Islamists and their growing influence on the party’s leadership and its decision-making.

In the aftermath of 9/11, Fatah founded the Muslim Canadian Congress, a secular Muslim organization dedicated to the seperation of religion and state, opposition to Islamic extremism, and an end to what it describes as “gender apartheid” that is practised in many parts of the Muslim community. The MCC, under his leadership, is best known for leading the opposition to sharia law in Canada.

Tarek Fatah lives in Cabbagetown, Toronto with Nargis Tapal, his wife of 33 years, and their two daughters Natasha and Nazia.