Torture victim, author and founder of the Muslim Canadian Congres Tarek Fatah writes:
In mistreating political prisoners, Syria and Egypt are second only to Sudan and Saudi Arabia, now that Saddam Hussein is no longer around. The region is a graveyard of human rights with the population so numbed by decades of authoritarianism that even the genocide in Darfur fails to bring people onto the streets
And, of course, most so called Muslim civil-rights groups are furious – at Canada. More <a href="http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=6396a81d-1d05-4815-82d2-527ced404138 “>here<a href="http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=6396a81d-1d05-4815-82d2-527ced404138 “>.