Tarek Fatah: The Devil is in the Hijab

I have previously reviewed Tarek Fatah's book, "Chasing a Mirage - the tragic illusion of an Islamic state," on this site:
http://fakirsca.blogspot.com/2009/04/tarek-fatah-chasing-mirage-and-salman.html

At that time, I said I wanted to like Fatah and his anti-Islamist book, Mirage, because I am opposed to sharia.

I don't even want to like him, anymore.

His atrocious June 08, 2009 article in the National Post, on the murder of a head-scarf-wearing woman in Germany, Marwa el-Sherbini, seeks to reduce an evil act with serious unanswered questions to a a forseeable act of "backlash" against women who wear the hijab (Islamic head-scarf and modest dress) as a "political statement:
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/07/08/tarek-fatah-covering-up-for-the-hijab.aspx?CommentPosted=true#commentmessage

In his article, Fatah makes no mention of any facts likely to disturb his theme, such as the facts that: the murder victim was giving testimony against her assailant in court, when the latter walked across the floor and stabbed her 18 times, in front of her husband and three-year-old son. When her husband rushed to try to save her, he was shot by police.

Fatah does not once mention the obvious legal and security issues: how did the murderer get into the court-room with a knife? How could police reasonably have mistaken her husband for the assailant? Why was there no heightened security for a case involving previous extreme verbal violence against the victim, in a first-world country that is no stranger to racist tensions and violence. What, if anything, is Germany doing to ensure a tragedy like that one never happens again?

Instead, Fatah makes the appalling assertion that the murder happened as a result of a foreseeable "backlash" against women who wear head-scarves as a "political statement."

(He gives no evidence, either, to support the idea that Egyptian-born Marwa el-Sherbini, a pharmacist, was wearing a head-scarf for political reasons; and I found none to warrant his supposition.)

For me, Fatah's June 09 NP article reveals the man's profoundly anti-Islamist bias, - to the point that, as one NP commentator points out in so many words: if he's the 'good guy,' when it comes to Islamism, many may be moved closer to throwing their lots in with the 'bad guys.'

A quick search of the Internet pulls up what appear to me to be more reliable versions of the tragedy:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/07/german-trial-hijab-murder-egypt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marwa_El-Sherbini