Tweet 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...
Tweet 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....
Tweet 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...
Tweet May 2, 2011 Watch Crescent Post Managing Editor Arsalan Iftikhar on Al-Jazeera English television below discussing the death of Osama bin Laden:
Tweet 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...
Tweet From Salon.com by Jillian Rayfield A former FBI agent and current anti-Islam activist believes that John Brennan, President Obama’s pick to head the CIA, is secretly a Muslim and therefore “unfit for duty” in the government. On Friday, John Guandolo, the vice president of the Virginia-based Strategic Engagement Group (SEG), appeared on the Boca...
Tweet From ABC News By CRISTINA COSTANTINI (@xtinatini) Feb. 7, 2013 Almost exactly a year ago, the Associated Press obtained a declassified document revealing that the New York City Police Department monitored student activities of Muslim Student Associations (MSA) in at least 15 colleges across the northeast, including at some of the nation’s top schools, like Yale University and...
Tweet From Huffington Post by Betty Londergan Khalida Brohi is a sweet-faced young Pakistani woman with the giggle of a little girl and the heart of a warrior for justice. At the tender age of 24, she has seen more of life (and death) than any young woman should; she’s been shot at, bombed, stalked,...
Tweet From TwinCities.com A man seen in a photograph dressed as a female Muslim Target employee is a St. Paul police officer who worked off-duty at a St. Paul store, police and Target Corp. said Monday, Feb. 4. Mukhtar Ibrahim directed a Tweet to the official St. Paul police Twitter account at 7:55 p.m. Sunday:...
Tweet From Religion News Service by Monique Parsons CHICAGO (RNS) Religious affiliation may be on the wane in America, a recent Pew study asserts, but you wouldn’t know it walking into the storefront near the corner of West 63rd Street and South Fairfield Avenue. Inside a former bank in a neighborhood afflicted with gang violence,...
Tweet EDITOR’S NOTE: Here is the “Epilogue” finale to the 2013 Coca-Cola Super Bowl commercial that was emailed to me after my CNN television interview on the controversy.
Tweet By Sue Zeidler LOS ANGELES | Wed Jan 30, 2013 10:01pm EST (Reuters) – Arab-American groups have sharply criticized a Coca-Cola Super Bowl ad depicting an Arab walking through the desert with a camel, and one group said it would ask the beverage giant to change it before CBS airs the game on Sunday before an...