Popular Canadian ‘Marxist’ Muslim: Obama Has ‘White Man’s Guilt’ & Sharia ‘Has No Place In Islam’
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Tarek Fatah
Canadian political activist, author, columnist and practicing Muslim Tarek Fatah has been described as a liberal Marxist who stands firmly opposed to radicalism Islam. While he disagrees vehemently with American conservatives when it comes to the economy, he may surprise you when it comes to fighting radical Islam.
Recently, The Blaze interviewed Fatah, delving deeply into his views about President Barack Obama, the American left and the ongoing need to fight extremism.
You may recall our coverage last year of his address at Canada’s Ideacity conference. During his speech, the practicing Muslim bravely proclaimed that “the religion of Islam is being used as a tool by a fascist force.” Additionally, he made some bold claims about the American government.
“Instead of bringing victory over the fascist forces of the Muslim Brotherhood, we now recognize that their infiltration is right up to the American White House, but we can’t say that,” he proclaimed. “Today we are fighting another idea of Islamo-fascism that has shut our mouths and we can’t speak because we’re too scared that someone may turn around and call us a racist. And mind you, everyday as I speak, a few dozen Muslims would have been killed by now by these Jihadis.”
In his interview with The Blaze, Fatah doubled down on these words, leaving no stone unturned in ensuring that those paying attention understand the horrific implications of radical Islamism. Fighting extremism, he said, shouldn’t be a partisan undertaking.
THE LEFT’S FAILURES
“During the entire Cold War you didn’t have to be liberal or conservative to recognize a threat communism was [posing],” he said. “It’s a pity that the new sort of fascism that America — the West faces — has not produced some sort of recognition in liberal circles of this…the left in the U.S. has betrayed every single position that they’ve ever stood for.”
On the issues of racism, slavery and women’s and gay rights, Fatah said that the American life suffers from a “heavy dose of white guilt.” Later in the interview, he mirrored this sentiment, charging, “Right now the tragedy is — Barack Obama seems to be the first black person with a white man’s guilt.”
When it comes to addressing specific policy issues, the activist claims the left has simply become ideologically-driven. When a conservative takes a position, for instance, liberals, he claims, automatically adopt the opposing view. In essence, the commentator maintains that such a mentality leaves American liberals in a position where they are “shooting themselves in the foot” and potentially moving in a direction that could be dangerous to the nation.
Fatah also told The Blaze about his view that America, despite leftist claims, is a beacon of democracy. The U.S., he believes, is a country that provides more “social justice” (i.e. senior care, free education, trade union rights and numerous other freedoms) than practically any other “society on earth.”
FIGHTING ISLAMIC EXTREMISM
Among the other issues that Fatah has been passionate about is the ongoing quest to combat radical Islam. Despite his leftist economic views, the commentator is intent about the West’s need to stand up and strongly resists extremism.
Just as he did during his Ideacity address, Fatah condemned the treatment of radical Islam in the West. Rather than confronting the issue as they should, he lamented liberals’ political correctness that, often times, dictates how the issue is discussed.
The Muslim Brotherhood — a group that is re-emerging and capturing power in nations across the world — is one that he has heavily criticized. In fact, he sees the radical cohort as a major danger that must be rationally examined and combated. Recently, the group has emerged as a powerful force in Egypt, Tunisia, Syria and Libya, among other countries. Dealing with opposition to the Brotherhood is particularly difficult among members of Fatah’s own community.
“Anyone opposed to the Muslim Brotherhood in the Muslim community is shut out,” he said. “If you’re critical of the NYPD, if you’re critical of American policies, you can be invited to the White House by White House officials but if you are supportive of American values and the separation of religion and state and an opponent of the Muslim Brotherhood you’re shut out. That’s the reality.”
Watch him discussing the Brotherhood in an interview last year:
The commentator, who claims he initially supported Obama, said the president has left him “terribly disappointed.” This is particularly true when considering how the administration has purportedly allowed Islamist influence to seep in. And that, he said, must be confronted, as there are specific steps that he contends must be taken in order to combat Islamic extremism.
“[The West] has to launch a very ideological war and weed out all the academics in the American universities who support the Muslim Brotherhood and have taken over all of the Islamic studies departments,” Fatah contended. “And Islamism 101 should be a mandatory course in Georgetown University, in Howard and in all the Ivy League schools and anti-Muslim Brotherhood academics should be invited to teach.”
Allowing such pervasive ideals to enter the university system leads to indoctrination and a diminished ability to properly alert young people and adults, alike, to the worldly dangers that exist.
“We’ve ended up [in] a situation that the only people teaching American diplomats about how to fight Islamism are the ones who have sympathy with our enemy,” he said. ”I keep repeating one thing — you can fight Malaria by killing mosquitoes. You’ve got to drain the swamps.”
THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD & THE WHITE HOUSE
As for the Obama White House, Fatah explained that, though it may be unintentional and/or sophisticated work by the Muslim Brotherhood, the White House may be near one of these swamps. The Brotherhood, he said, has a powerful ability to embed itself in political structures.
“Let me put it this way, it’s one of the most secretive organizations that infiltrates like the Communist Party…the communists used to work that way,” Fatah explained. “You’d have cells, you’d have hierarchy. You cannot take the question to the top. There are multiple levels of membership. And then you get into the inner circle. And so this is a vast fascist organization that will create bloodshed only when it suits itself.”
Fatah maintains that past examples — including The Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development case — show how the Brotherhood’s code of conduct operates. The group’s goals, he maintains, are to destroy any institution where people have power over the public law.
“It’s an ideological war,” he said. “You cannot do this without having Muslims that are anti-Islamists take the lead.”
SHARIA LAW
As for sharia, a complex Islamic law that serves as the basis for legislative and judicial structures in many fundamentalist Muslim countries (Click here for the BBC’s brief description on sharia), Fatah has an opinion that is certain to be unpopular among Islamists and fans of the legal structure. Not only does he dislike sharia, but he believes it is a paradigm that was never intended to exist in the Islamic faith.
“The simple question is, ‘Do you think that sharia is the source of public law where you live?.’” he asked. ”If you say ‘yes’ [that sharia has a place in public law] you’re part of the problem.”
When pressed on the issue and asked to explain what role, if any, sharia serves, Fatah was quick to answer.
“It has no place in Islam. It has to be totally rejected, because it is the law that gives dictators — it has been dictated by caliphs and sultans to justify their rule over oppressed people,” he explained. ”If Muhammed came around he wouldn’t know what this meant. If he came around, he’d say who the [heck] wrote this up?”
While many conservatives may agree with Fatah’s points on radical Islam, the chances they’ll be able to endorse his economic views are pretty low. He claims that he doesn’t “buy into this notion of cutting taxes and making America beg for money from the Chinese.”
When asked to comment on the title he’s been given by some — “liberal Marxist” — Fatah seemed hesitant to fully embrace it.
“I study Marxism primarily to study the effect of economics on the development of society. And I still believe that the economic depiction of how capitalism works by Karl Marx is quite accurate,” he said. “That doesn‘t necessarily mean I’m a communist or that has anything to do with how constitutional democracy should work. I think many of the facets of Marxism ended up in the U.S. — the 40-hour work week or the Saturday and Sunday holidays or women in the work force.”
While he explained that these latter elements may not have come from Marxism directly, he said that have roots in Fabian socialism.
Regardless of where individuals stand on the economic front, Fatah’s message about America was clear during the interview: ”Criticizing the U.S. simply because it suits for better dinner table conversation — it doesn’t help anyone.”
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Beerbear
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 11:23amClassic taqqiya. What is called “muslim extremism” today is 100% in step with Mohammed’s own deeds and orders. When the Jews in Arabia refused to follow this wannabe “prophet”, what did he do? He killed them. Men, women, children.
Sharia is an integral part of islam, it cannot be removed. Any mohammedan who says it has no room in islam is lying. Simple as that.
Also, “muslim” means essentially “true believer”. By calling them “muslim” you play into their fairy tale and make yourself an “infidel”. And infidels can be killed under sharia law, since they are not innocent people. Infidels, according to islamic law, commit the worst possible crime: they refuse to follow allah, which is worse than murder or rape under this so called “law.”
Islam is not a religion. It’s a socio-political, highly fascist system masquerading as religion.
Report Post »ashestoashes
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 3:11pm@BEERBEAR…Just so you know Beerbear..Zionists are who the Federal Reserve Rothchilds are..they aer not the real Jews..and they have infiltrated out government..they are an enemy to the Torah observant Jews and to all of society..They are Communists and they are here to spread the wealth from the poor of this country to themselves..and to the rich in the ME poor countries..They run the show..but guess who’s behind them? As far back as 1941 Communism used Islam as its military..Islam was actually started by this religious organization..they are still calling the shots.
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcSM4dNMCPk
akairey
Posted on May 17, 2012 at 3:15pmIf you want to learn the 3 stages of Jihad…using their own sources…I suggest everybody watch this!
http://www.answeringmuslims.com/p/jihad.html
Report Post »TEARS FOR AMERICA
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 7:32amBarack Obama does not “recognize” the implications of the Muslim Brotherhood…oh, I believe he knows very well what they stand for the long-term eradication of Christians and Jews globally and that they are infiltrating the house of the United States of America…people wake up!
Report Post »Restore the Republic
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 3:46am“Great a person as Barack Obama”????? Obama is a dense marxist moron with barely enough intelligence to walk upright.
Report Post »espersemper
Posted on May 15, 2012 at 6:18pmAgainst Sharia Law? Gee Wiz I guess Gays and Women have a chance in the collective goodness of Utopia. You know that Allallaland, that pink gulag, that same sex adopting and lab creating family life ! Bye Bye hijabs,nikabs,burkas and all the cutting edge genital holy confusion!
Report Post »This man must like the opposite sex and have a homosexual son?
Maybe his college endoctrination was as successful as the OWS movement and Students in Montreals’? Or is he just another decoy?
CulperGang
Posted on May 15, 2012 at 5:23pmTo: Anonymous Irrelevant. why don’t you have a “reply” in your post. ANS: Blaze insider…….
SEA happens to be right. A conspiracy is only a conspiracy until it is unmasked. THEN it IS THE TRUTH. You are just ginorant of facts.
lets see if this gets printed….nope.
Report Post »SurhanSurhan
Posted on May 15, 2012 at 6:32pm@ CULPERGANG- You’re a dodo bird jut like those guys. Just because you think something doesn’t make it true.
Report Post »CulperGang
Posted on May 15, 2012 at 5:18pm“white guilt” WFIT? Whites don’t have quilt over the exploitation BY YOUR MUSLIM 1% exploiting Muslims by letting the Globalist destroy your countries. MOST whites don’t want to be in the ME or cause wars. GLOBALIST do, which mainstreet America cannot control YET. I suggest YOU Muslims hold YOUR 1% accountable for SELLING YOU OUT FOR YOUR OIL.
Report Post »scienceguy
Posted on May 17, 2012 at 8:30amWhite guilt is another racist term popular among lefties. Like “thinking white”. From the University of Toronto student newspaper,
Report Post »“It’s OK to be white, as long as you don’t think white.”
Yup, that’s the state of the conversation in many University communities.
JimL
Posted on May 15, 2012 at 4:19pmAn atheist Marxist or a Globalist posing as a …(the nasty modern…)?
Report Post »Bob the Brain
Posted on May 15, 2012 at 4:09pmThere is absolutely no such thing as “radical Islam” or “extreme Islamism” or even moderate Islam. Tarek Fatah is a master at taqquiya (lying for the sake of Islam). Do not get suckered by him. The Koran is a hate book and everything about Muhammed and his supposed “revelations” from “Allah” are based on lies.
Report Post »JimL
Posted on May 15, 2012 at 4:28pmRelativists or Materialist—Yes, he may be just another intellectual wearing the most advantageous hat for the moment.
Report Post »SurhanSurhan
Posted on May 15, 2012 at 6:36pm@ BOB THE BRAIN- There it is…I knew some lemonade drinker would come on here and yell taqquiya. Idiot!
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 10:16amSpot on Bob!!!
Report Post »Quixotic-911
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 11:28amTheir is a such thing as “radical” and “extreme” Islam, they are the ones that believe in democracy and say “peace , peace “. It‘s the fundamentalists you’ve got to worry about, they follow the example of the prophet and it’s not a pretty example. If everyone would just take the time to read MULTIPLE SOURCES on the life of the prophet Mohammed then you would know all you need to about what Islam will bring to you.
Report Post »SurhanSurhan
Posted on May 17, 2012 at 5:12pm@ QUIXOTIC-911- The 2 sources you need to read to explain the life of prophet Muhammad are the Qur’an and the Sunnah (Hadiths). Anything else is a lie.
Report Post »JimL
Posted on May 15, 2012 at 3:47pmreference, SURVIVALS AND NEW ARRIVALS, Hilaire Belloc, 1929.
“The Materialist will not recover strength in our own day…
Report Post »The Devil used the Materialist (though the Materialist had no use for the Devil)…
He has made our generation too grand to deal with the Materialist. Spiritual forces have been awakened in us. We must talk about the “will to peace,“ ”the will to power.“ ”The will to” this and that and the other (a horrible piece of bad English)…
I beg that no one will mix him up with his more powerful, but nastier, modern brethren who are so angry at having the relationship mentioned. The Pantheist especially abhors him. But he is better than them all.
Should he die in my own time, which is likely enough, I will follow piously at his funeral, which is more than I will do for any of the others…”
ChiefGeorge
Posted on May 15, 2012 at 3:40pmMuslims overseas and at home are getting the same (extra) dose of self esteem that so motivates the Left in this country that the Black and Latino community have been getting filled up on to left them to overinflated egos of themselves so they can automatically feel good about their mediocre achievements in the whole world of achievements that the West has been the leader of and via the vehicle of capitalism/Christian-Judeo values of contracts, agreements, property rights etc. This is used to give them a false sense of pride so they feel equal and not want to harm others to make some stupid point about how they feel superior but are unable to achieve that in real terms. This is all BS from the Left aimed at appeasing Islam and at some point subverting it as secularism has subverted Christian beliefs and morals in America.
Report Post »SurhanSurhan
Posted on May 15, 2012 at 6:40pm@ CHIEFGEORGE- Blah, blah, blah…out of that whole speech you didn’t say one thing with any merit…all you did was talk in circle.
Report Post »Chromo200
Posted on May 15, 2012 at 3:26pmwithout sounding redundant … never trust a muslim.
Report Post »SurhanSurhan
Posted on May 15, 2012 at 6:41pm@ CHROMO200- How about just not sounding at all.
Report Post »jungle J
Posted on May 15, 2012 at 2:49pmsometimes even the mentally ill get something right!!
Report Post »SurhanSurhan
Posted on May 15, 2012 at 6:42pm@ JUNGLE J- Congratulations!
Report Post »JimL
Posted on May 15, 2012 at 2:38pmSomeone you can disagree with; someone who respects truth.
Report Post »brother_ed
Posted on May 15, 2012 at 3:00pm@JIML
I wish there were more Muslims like him who would speak out against the radical forces taking over this religion.
It goes to show that disagreeing with a person on one facet doesn‘t mean we can’t find common ground on other things.
Even people who disagree with Ron Paul on some issues need to recognize that not all of his ideas should be dismissed. The same goes for Romney haters; just because you don‘t like his religion doesn’t mean all of his ideas are useless.
Report Post »JimL
Posted on May 15, 2012 at 3:22pm…truth leads to Truth. Thanks, Brother, for reminding us.
Report Post »zoro51
Posted on May 15, 2012 at 2:35pmBlame canada!
Report Post »TH30PH1LUS
Posted on May 15, 2012 at 2:15pmTarek Fatah,
Your Muslim friends in positions of power will continue to ignore you and shut you out until such time as they have accomplished their greater goal – the crippling of the American economy and a full-out attack on Israel. They have bonded themselves to other agents of darkness (Communism, Socialism, Anarchy) to collaborate on this goal because they are too weak alone.
One they feel they have accomplished the goals, they will once again embrace your words and use them to then turn against their communist bedfellows.
Basically you are a pawn that is not useful – yet.
By the way, Muhammad was a liar, a pedophile, and had innocent blood on his hands.
Report Post »ProgressiveDeist267
Posted on May 15, 2012 at 1:58pmThanks the blaze for this great article. I know myself and other users will disagree with different issues but I have a lot of respect for Tarek Fatah. There is a lot of white guilt, eco guilt, etc in the liberal movement today. All you have to do is look at article by Daily Kos to see how emotion and guilt is used to persuade people to vote liberal. I’m critical of conservatism too but I find the left as very hypocritical and crooked.
Report Post »FromSeaToSea
Posted on May 15, 2012 at 1:47pmWho Are The Terrorists?
“The drive of the Rockefellers and their allies is to create a one-world government combining super capitalism and Communism under the same tent, all under their control…. Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope, generations old in planning, and incredibly evil in intent.”
- Congressman Larry P. McDonald, 1976, killed in the Korean Airlines 747 that was shot down by the Soviets
“Bankers own the earth” – Sir Josiah Stamp, Director, Bank of England
“The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.”
- Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Minister of England
“Most Americans have no real understanding of the operations of the international moneylenders… the accounts of the Federal Reserve have never been audited. It operates outside the control of Congress and … manipulates the credit of the United States” – Sen. Barry Goldwater (R. –AZ)
“Nationalism is no longer a viable concept.” Zbigniew Brzezinski, UN CFR member, Obama advisor
“We are moving toward a new world order, the world of communism. We shall never turn off that road.” Mikhail Gorbachev 1987
“There will be a new form of global government.” David de Rothschild, Nov. 7, 2008
Go bye America.
Unless We exit the UN, abolish the Federal Reserve, and out all Obama-ites at all levels of gov.
Vote straight Constitutionalist
Please
Report Post »FromSeaToSea
Posted on May 15, 2012 at 1:46pmWho Are The Terrorists?
“The drive of the Rockefellers and their allies is to create a one-world government combining super capitalism and Communism under the same tent, all under their control…. Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope, generations old in planning, and incredibly evil in intent.”
- Congressman Larry P. McDonald, 1976, killed in the Korean Airlines 747 that was shot down by the Soviets
“Bankers own the earth” – Sir Josiah Stamp, Director, Bank of England
“The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.”
- Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Minister of England
“Most Americans have no real understanding of the operations of the international moneylenders… the accounts of the Federal Reserve have never been audited. It operates outside the control of Congress and … manipulates the credit of the United States” – Sen. Barry Goldwater (R. –AZ)
“Nationalism is no longer a viable concept.” Zbigniew Brzezinski, UN CFR member, Obama advisor
“We are moving toward a new world order, the world of communism. We shall never turn off that road.” Mikhail Gorbachev 1987
“There will be a new form of global government.” David de Rothschild, Nov. 7, 2008
Go bye America….
Unless We exit the UN, abolish the Federal Reserve, and out all Obama-ites at all levels of gov.
Vote straight Constitutionalist
D
Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on May 15, 2012 at 2:08pm@Seatosea
Report Post »You are preaching to the choir on this site. Do you have an opinion of your own? Not to sound like a jackass, just saying.
SurhanSurhan
Posted on May 15, 2012 at 6:29pm@ FROMSEATOSEA- ANONYMOUS T. IRRELEVANT- Birds of a feather flock together…in this case dodo birds. I would be willing to bet without even looking that the people you (fromseatosea) attributed these quotes to, didn’t say them.
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