OPINION: Tarek Fatah was a 'voice of the down-trodden' Feature lekhaka-Jagdish N Singh Eminent Pakistani-Canadian journalist Tarek Fatah is no more. He died this Monday after a prolonged battle with cancer. In his death, the free world has lost a great voice of, in the words of his daughter Natasha Fatah, "the down-trodden, underdogs and the oppressed." Sources closely known to Fatah say he was a true defender of democracy, freedom and pluralism as against jihadism and Islamism. He promoted the cause of moderate Islam and encouraged other moderates to speak out against Islamists' abuses of their religion. He advocated...