Canadian Muslim mensch: Tarek Fatah gets it

“On Thursday, Canada’s Muslim Canadian Congress issued a press release expressing ‘shock and dismay’ over Gibbons’ imprisonment and calling on the Sudanese government to release her immediately. That same day, MCC founder and Macleans 50 member Tarek Fatah placed a miniature teddy bear on his own desk — with the word ‘Muhammad’ written across it in black pen.”

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“We would hope that people like [Liberal leader] Stéphane Dion and [NDP leader] Jack Layton would speak up, but I doubt very much that Mr. Layton will say even a word. I think the Left in this country has tried to glamourize the Islamists as if they are some sort of latter-day Sandinistas. Mr. Layton talks of the Taliban as if they’re the Viet Cong. It’s delusional, uneducated, ill-informed. A love affair of the Left and Islamists that is very dangerous for the rest of the world…”