Arsalan Iftikhar is an international human rights lawyer and Contributing Editor for Islamica magazine; an international contemporary affairs magazine headquartered in Los Angeles and with editorial offices in London, Amman and Cambridge, Massachusetts.  Read more...
 
Arsalan 9/11 Essay on CNN Anderson Cooper 360 Blog

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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