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Chasing a Mirage An Islamic State or a State of Islam
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Chasing a Mirage An Islamic State or a State of Islam Hardcover - 2008

by Tarek Fatah


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'Chasing a Mirage' is an extremely valuable contribution to the fight by progressive Muslims against Islamist fascism. This book should be required reading for the Left in the West who have mistakenly started believing that Islamists represent some sort of anti-imperialism.

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  • Title Chasing a Mirage An Islamic State or a State of Islam
  • Author Tarek Fatah
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Pages 432
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Wiley, Mississauga
  • Date May 9, 2008
  • ISBN 9780470841167

About the author

Tarek Fatah is host of the weekly TV show, the Muslim Chronicle, and a frequent contributor to the "Toronto Star," the "Globe and Mail, " and the "National Post." A lifelong critic of Islamic extremism, Fatah has earned the ire of Islamists. 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, 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.

In the aftermath of 9/11, Fatah founded the Muslim Canadian Congress, a secular Muslim organization dedicated to the separation 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.

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

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