Unholy alliances on Canada's far right: Tarek Fatah, Charles McVety and the JDL

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                                                                        July
22, 2012

Unholy alliances on Canada's far right: Tarek Fatah, Charles McVety and the
JDL

These are interesting days for Tarek Fatah.

Mr. Fatah, if you are unfamiliar with him, is the self-proclaimed Marxist
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9mge5Um4Lx4> [1] who
has, of late, waged a relentless "war" against "Islamofascism," a fight
that he claims his former "fellow travelers" have all but abandoned. He
began his chameleon like search for political and public success and
attention as an Ontario New Democrat in the employ of both Bob Rae and
Howard Hampton (during which time he ran for the NDP in 1995), then became
a Liberal only to abandon the Liberal Party when his leadership candidate,
again Bob Rae, lost.

Fatah was a founding member and early spokesperson for the Muslim Canadian
Congress (MCC) under whose banner, as we shall see, he still appears at
public events.

Fatah has made the fight against the alleged threat of "Islamofascism" his
personal crusade, abhorring the supposed danger to Western freedoms and
universal human rights that Islamic fundamentalism poses. He has put
himself out as a staunch defender of women's rights, as pro-gay marriage
(in fact, his stated reason for resigning from his formal positions in the