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CNN Anderson Cooper 360: Bollywood Will Beat Al-Qaeda |
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December 2, 2008 by Arsalan Iftikhar Editor’s Note: Arsalan Iftikhar is an international human rights lawyer, founder of www.TheMuslimGuy.com and contributing editor for Islamica Magazine in Washington.
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Founder, TheMuslimGuy.com.
The world mourns for the people of Mumbai. Ranked immediately behind New York City as the 5th largest metropolitan city in the entire world; over 19.2 million Mumbai citizens of all religions and ethnicities watched in horror as part of the city’s virtual ‘five-star’ district reeled from the aftermath of the deadly terrorist attacks which has (thus far) claimed the lives of 179 people and wounded at least 300 more.
As the financial capital of India and birthplace to the global phenomenon known as Bollywood, in many ways, the city formerly known as Bombay is central to the societal heartbeat of our world’s largest democracy. As people all around the world send our deepest condolences to the loved ones of the victims of these outrageous terrorist attacks; the world can again reunite to send our thoughts and prayers to anyone touched by this terrible tragedy.
Read the entire CNN Anderson Cooper 360 column at: http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2008/12/02/bollywood-will-beat-al-qaeda-every-time/ |
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CNN Column: Letter to Obama on the Muslim World |
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November 14, 2008 By Arsalan Iftikhar
Special to CNN Editor's Note: Arsalan Iftikhar is an international human rights lawyer, founder of www.TheMuslimGuy.com and contributing editor for Islamica Magazine in Washington. This is one in a series of letters to the new president that will appear on CNN.com in the next several weeks. (CNN) -- First of all, as one of more than 66 million Americans of all races, religions and ethnicities who voted for you, your electoral victory was one of the proudest moments of our collective lives. As our American political history witnessed the magnitude of our nation's first African-American president, our society was also able to collectively (and finally) exhale, knowing that the mailbox at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. would now read "Obama" instead of "Bush"... Read Arsalan's entire CNN.com column at: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/12/iftikhar.obama/index.html?imw=Y&iref=mpstoryemail |
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Arsalan 9/11 Essay on CNN Anderson Cooper 360 Blog |
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September 11, 2008
Spending Seven Septembers Hijacking My Religion Back by Arsalan Iftikhar
Mahatma Gandhi once said that, “I have nothing new to teach the world…Truth and nonviolence are as old as the hills.” Since time immemorial, our human experiment has revolved around the enlightened advancement of collective human thought. Within the current ungodly global mix of perpetual war, everlasting human poverty, extremist terrorism and global racism; our human race has completely and utterly lost its collective mind. Since our world has gone completely bonkers, the unquenchable thirst for social justice of this young American Muslim human rights lawyer and public diplomat must be positively channeled at this juncture of infinite global sadness towards a purpose-driven life guided down an untaken road called Islamic Pacifism...
Continue reading Arsalan's 9/11 piece on AC360's blog at: http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/11/spending-seven-septembers-hijacking-my-religion-back/ |
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By Arsalan Iftikhar. Mahatma Gandhi once said that, “I have nothing new to teach the world…Truth and nonviolence are as old as the hills.” Since time immemorial, our human experiment has revolved around the enlightened advancement of collective human thought. Within the current ungodly global mix of perpetual war, everlasting human poverty, extremist terrorism and global racism; our human race has completely and utterly lost its collective mind. Since our world has gone completely bonkers, the unquenchable thirst for social justice of this young American Muslim human rights lawyer must positively be channeled at this juncture of infinite global sadness towards a purpose-driven life guided down an untaken road called Islamic Pacifism. Malcolm X once said that, “It is a time for martyrs now, and if I am to be one, it will be for the cause of brotherhood. That’s the only thing that can save this country.” With the infamous likes of Osama, Coulter and every other global ‘pimp of war’ maniacally bent on the ungodly destruction of our world; this bleeding heart Muslim pacifist continues to offer himself as their adversarial rhetorical ‘peace assassin’ in the quixotic quest to cure the toxic venom of all racists and warmongers worldwide. |
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