From CP via the Hamilton Spectator:

A Muslim journalist beaten with a cricket bat outside a Mississauga home is living in fear after repeated death threats because someone has deemed his writing to be anti-Islam.

Jawaad Faizi, 35, a columnist for the weekly Urdu-language Pakistan Post based in New York, suffered cuts and bruises in the attack, which has alarmed his wife and three children.

The Pakistan Post is published in Toronto, Montreal and Calgary as well as in 16 major American centres.

There's more at this Editor and Publisher story:

During the attack, Faizi said, the men told him to stop writing critically of the religious organization Idara Minhaj-ul-Quran and its leader, Cleric Allama Tahir-Ul-Qadri. Allama Tahir-Ul-Qadri is a frequent visitor to Canada, CJFE said.

Here's the Canadian Journalists for Free Expression news release.