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 United States when 20 beautiful...
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 a white guy did it…No...
EXCLUSIVE: Three Questions with Reza Aslan
Tweet Crescent Post Exclusive By Arsalan Iftikhar January 11, 2012 EDITOR’S NOTE: From time to time, The Crescent Post will bring you an exclusive interview series called ’3 Questions’ where we will pose some key questions with major policymakers and VIP thought leaders on the pressing global issues of the day. _________________________________________________________________________________________________ The Crescent Post...
PAKISTAN NEWSPAPER: “Un-Teaching Extremism”
Tweet From DAWN Newspaper (Pakistan) BY FAHAD FARUQUI ON JANUARY 7TH, 2012 The US has taken an initiative to spread the counter-extremist message across Pakistan to prevent the breeding of extremism and to deradicalise militants who were completely taken by the jihadist ideology — which is a tough battle becausePakistan is, perhaps, the only country where the state, with...
VIDEO: Arsalan Iftikhar on ‘The Dr. Drew Show’ (CNN Headline News)
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EXCLUSIVE: “Lowe’s Hardware Stores: Muslims Not Welcome”
Tweet By Arsalan Iftikhar December 10, 2011 Exclusive | The Crescent Post According to the Religion News Service (RNS), the national hardware chain called Lowe’s has pulled commercials from future episodes of TLC’s new reality television show called “All-American Muslim” after letter-writing campaigns by some right-wing evangelical conservative Republican Christian groups. The Florida Family Association- a...
COLUMN: “TLC Show ‘All-American Muslim’: Step in the Right Direction”
Tweet From Patheos Posted on December 6, 2011 by Arsalan Iftikhar This is a guest post from author Arsalan Iftikhar. Network news anchor Katie Couric once declared that “bigotry expressed against Muslims in this country was one of the most disturbing stories to surface” in the last few years. At the time, Couric was referring to the proposed Park51...
