{"id":1257,"date":"2025-10-04T14:12:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T18:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theclf.ca\/?page_id=1257"},"modified":"2025-10-04T14:13:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T18:13:01","slug":"tahir-aslam-gora","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/literaturefest.ca\/tahir-aslam-gora\/","title":{"rendered":"Tahir Aslam Gora"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row el_id=&#8221;getting-here&#8221;][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1759042690060{margin-top: 60px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;]\n<h1 class=\"display-2 special-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Authors<\/h1>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]\n<h5 class=\"display-2 special-title\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Tahir Aslam Gora<\/h5>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]Tahir Aslam Gora (born September 26, 1963) is a canadian broadcaster, editor, publisher, (English to Urdu) translator, and writer of fiction and non-fiction. He co-authored &#8220;The Danger of Political Islam to Canada: (With a Warning to America)&#8221; exposing how the ideology of political Islam threatens countries and governments around the world, especially Canada and the USA. He holds progressive ideology and supports freedom of expression. He is recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for his services in Canada. He is the founder of Canadian Thinkers Forum and the Muslim Committee Against Antisemitism. He is married to Haleema Sadia and the two have launched TAG TV, a United States and Canada based news channel in 2014. He has published six novels, three collections of short stories, and two collections of poems in Urdu &amp; Hindi. His books have been translated into Russian, Uzbek &amp; English languages. He happened to contribute to the Hamilton Spectator and Huffington Post. 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