The Crescent Post is a global news portal dedicated to bringing diverse voices about the ‘Muslim Street’ together in one place. Arsalan Iftikhar is the founder and global managing editor of The Crescent Post in Washington DC. Arsalan is an international human rights lawyer, global media commentator and founder of TheMuslimGuy.com. His interviews and commentaries...
May 2, 2011 Watch Crescent Post Managing Editor Arsalan Iftikhar on Al-Jazeera English television below discussing the death of Osama bin Laden:
From The Huffington Post May 12, 2011 SEE HUFFINGTON POST’S FULL LIST OF TOP 12 ‘ISLAM ON TWITTER’ ACCOUNTS HERE… No example is more powerful a testament to the growing impact of social media than the ongoing revolutions of the Arab Spring. Twitter, Facebook and other social media has drastically changed the way people engage...
Get Your SIGNED Copy of “Islamic Pacifism” by Arsalan Iftikhar Here Today! From The Back Cover of Islamic Pacifism: Global Muslims in the Post-Osama Era: “This book Islamic Pacifism should be required reading for anyone tempted to equate the real Islam with the atrocities committed by unholy zealots in the name of one of the world’s great religions. Arsalan...
From National Public Radio October 3, 2011 Radical U.S.-born cleric, Anwar al-Awlaki, was killed Friday in a U.S. drone strike in Yemen. He inspired plots to attack Americans, including the Fort Hood shooting and the 2009 Christmas plot to blow up an airplane. But author and human rights lawyer Arsalan Iftikhar says al-Awlaki represents an...
From The Guardian Newspaper (UK) by Saeed Kamali Dehghan guardian.co.uk, Monday 14 May 2012 13.43 EDT Iranian rapper Shahin Najafi. A death sentence was issued against the rap artist after he released a controversial song called Naqi Photograph: Ay Collection/Sipa/Rex Features An Iranian rapper has become “the Salman Rushdie of music” after clerics in the Islamic republic...
From Buffalo News Updated: May 12, 2012, 6:49 AM LOCKPORT — Two women from Niagara Falls were sentenced to weekend jail terms Friday for their hate crime assault on a Pakistani woman last summer. Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas ordered Sheree A. Sabater, 39, to four months of weekends in the County Jail and three...
From Reuters by Kevin MurphyMay 12, 2012 KANSAS CITY, Kansas (Reuters) – Kansas lawmakers have passed legislation intended to prevent the state courts or agencies from using Islamic or other non-U.S. laws in making decisions, a measure critics have blasted as an embarrassment to the state. The legislation, which passed 33-3 in the state Senate...
From Houston Chronicle Standing behind the pulpit, addressing his modest 25-member congregation, Imam Khalis Rashaad preaches about time management, nutrition and economic empowerment at his new mosque in Houston’s Third Ward – a largely uncharted territory for Islamic centers. The rhetoric there is different from the more abstract spiritual sermons of its counterparts – the dozens of long-established...
From Religion News Service 1 in 6 Americans Believe Obama Is A Muslim, Lest that 1 in 4 Can Identify Him As Protestant WASHINGTON (RNS) After nearly four years in the Oval Office, President Obama is incorrectly thought to be Muslim by one in six American voters, and only one quarter of voters can correctly...
From Bay Area 9 News FORT LAUDERDALE – Toddlers may be jokingly called terrors when they hit the “terrible twos,” but one little girl’s parents said their daughter was accused of being an actual terrorist. The family said the Transportation Security Administration and JetBlue have some explaining to do after ordering their 18-month-old daughter off a...
From CBS (credit: VCU journalism instructor Vivian Medina-Messner) RICHMOND, Va. (CBSDC/AP) — A woman dressed in a black burka was removed during President Obama’s inaugural re-election campaign stop at Virginia Commonwealth University Saturday. According to a White House pool report, photographers observed the woman being escorted out of the gym by Richmond police and othersecurity officials. The...
