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COLUMN: "After Recent Mass Shootings: Should We Profile Young White Males?"

COLUMN: “After Recent Mass Shootings: Should We Profile Young White Males?”

Tweet by Arsalan Iftikhar Exclusive | The Crescent Post After all of these recent mass shootings around America, I feel really bad for all the young white males who will now be racially profiled. Said no one ever. We Americans most recently witnessed yet another mass shooting here in the...
EXCLUSIVE: "What If The Colorado Batman Killer Was a Muslim?"

EXCLUSIVE: “What If The Colorado Batman Killer Was a Muslim?”

Tweet by Arsalan Iftikhar Exclusive | The Crescent Post                             1) If the killer was a Muslim…The media would not be referring to the event as the ‘Colorado Massacre’…It would be called ‘Terrorism in Theater 9′…But since...
EXCLUSIVE: "The Silent Female Entrepreneurs of Medina"

EXCLUSIVE: “The Silent Female Entrepreneurs of Medina”

Tweet By Maliha Hashmi Exclusive | The Crescent Post In a country where women have slowly started to make a more pronounced and appealing appearance in the world of business, higher education, and other fields, there lies a very unique group of unnoticed female entrepreneurs. These talented and hardworking women...
EXCLUSIVE: "The Day Osama Died: My Daughter Was Born"

EXCLUSIVE: “The Day Osama Died: My Daughter Was Born”

Tweet By Rizwan Qureshi Exclusive | The Crescent Post One year ago today, most people in this country were celebrating an amazingly heroic achievement by our American military, the assassination of one of the most despised men in history, Osama bin Laden.  Like the assassination of President Kennedy almost fifty...
EXCLUSIVE: "Muslim Children's Book Company Seeks to Open Eyes"

EXCLUSIVE: “Muslim Children’s Book Company Seeks to Open Eyes”

Tweet By Nadia Ali Exclusive | The Crescent Post April 15, 2012 If you could devise a way to get future generations to view religion without prejudice, by placing more emphasis on religious tolerance and integration how would you go about it? For Mohammed Aaser, the answer was simple. All...
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About ‘The Crescent Post’

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...
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NPR BOOK INTERVIEW: "Amid Extremism, Muslims Take Up Nonviolence"

NPR BOOK INTERVIEW: “Amid Extremism, Muslims Take Up Nonviolence”

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...
BOOK: "Islamic Pacifism" by Arsalan Iftikhar

BOOK: “Islamic Pacifism” by Arsalan Iftikhar

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....

HUFFINGTON POST: Top 12 Muslim Twitter Accounts

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...

VIDEO: Watch CP Managing Editor Arsalan Iftikhar on Al-Jazeera English Television (May 2, 2011 on Death of Osama bin Laden)

Tweet May 2, 2011 Watch Crescent Post Managing Editor Arsalan Iftikhar on Al-Jazeera English television below discussing the death of Osama bin Laden:
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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...

NEWS: “Right-Wing Activist Says CIA Director Nominee John Brennan is a Secret Muslim”

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...

ABC NEWS: “How The NYPD Spied on American Muslim Students at Yale & Other Top Universities”

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...

HUFFINGTON POST: “Fighting Honor Killings in Pakistan with Fashion”

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,...

NEWS: “Minnesota Police Officer Mocks Muslims By Dressing as Somali Woman with Headscarf”

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:...

RELIGION NEWS SERVICE: “Chicago is Ground Zero in U.S. Muslim Renaissance”

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,...

NEWS VIDEO: “First Muslim Liberal Arts College Opens in California”

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VIDEO: “Watch Malala Yousufzai’s First TV Interview Since Being Shot by the Taliban”

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VIDEO: “Coca-Cola Super Bowl Commercial Ends With Arab Camel Jockey WINNING The Coke Bottle”

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.

REUTERS: “Arab-American Groups Claim Racism in Coca-Cola’s Super Bowl Commercial”

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...

NEWS VIDEO: “Colorado Students Recite Pledge of Allegiance in Arabic”

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