Islamic fundamentalism critic Tarek Fatah passes away

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Updated At : 11:27 AM Apr 25, 2023 IST

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New Delhi, April 24

Tarek Fatah, who would make incisive comments against Islamic fundamentalism and Pakistan, passed away of cancer at the age of 73, his daughter Natasha tweeted. A Canadian citizen, Fatah would highlight his Indian origins and mention that he came from a Rajput family that was forcibly converted to Islam in the 1840s.

A critic of Islamic fanaticism, Fatah found a receptive audience in India after 2014 for his broadsides, laced with sarcasm, against Pakistanis. Fatah endeared himself to many here by describing himself as an “Indian born in Pakistan, a Punjabi born in Islam, an immigrant in Canada with a Muslim consciousness”.

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