COLUMNS
MAGAZINE COLUMN: “Hey Europe: Call Them Refugees (Not Migrants!)”
From The Islamic Monthly September 14, 2015 by Arsalan Iftikhar The terms “refugee” and “migrant” are being used interchangeably by government officials, mainstream media outlets and average people on the street in reference to the humanitarian crisis we are witnessing … Continue reading
MAGAZINE COLUMN: “Let’s Call ISIS The ‘Un-Islamic’ State”
From The Islamic Monthly Dear ISIS & Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, You are not “The Islamic State.” There is nothing Islamic about beheading foreign journalists, indiscriminately targeting religious minorities and instilling wanton terror within the general civilian population where your terrorist … Continue reading
COLUMN: “Twitter Hashtags Finally Neutralizing Israeli Government Propaganda”
From Quartz.com by Arsalan Iftikhar I told CNN during a recent television interview that there hasn’t been a single hot-button topic treated with more intellectually dishonest, one-sided coverage than that which the American media has given the Israel-Palestine conflict—and that includes the War on Terror, … Continue reading
COLUMN: “Narendra Modi & Future of 140 Million Muslims in India”
From Quartz by Arsalan Iftikhar For the last few days, media coverage of India’s incoming prime minister, Narendra Modi, has been mostly euphoric—except for the perfunctory mentions of the pesky 2002 genocide of more than 1,000 Muslims in the state of Gujarat under … Continue reading
COLUMN: “The Unbearable Whiteness of National Public Radio”
From The Daily Dot BY ARSALAN IFTIKHAR National Public Radio recently announced that it would be ending the broadcast of the national weekday program Tell Me More with host Michel Martin on August 1, 2014, eliminating 28 positions as part of a larger effort to end … Continue reading
CNN COLUMN: “Hey Boko Haram, Pick Up A Quran & Return Kidnapped Girls”
From CNN Opinion by Arsalan Iftikhar, special to CNN (CNN) – Hey Boko Haram, have you read the Quran lately? Most of the 1.6 billion Muslims in the world have, and we’re utterly certain that it condemns kidnapping young girls and selling … Continue reading
COLUMN: “Dear Rupert Murdoch: Why Do You Blame Muslims for Everything?”
Dear Rupert Murdoch, Well, it seems that you have been at it again with your unabashed (and bizarre) anti-Muslim racism in regards to Malaysian Airlines Flight 370. As the world was transfixed on the fate of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 … Continue reading
MAGAZINE: “My State Department Trip to Central Asia”
From The Islamic Monthly by Arsalan Iftikhar The early 20th-century Yale geography professor Ellsworth Huntington once said that all of the “evidence points to Central Asia as man’s original home…For the general movement of human migrations [since early modern history] has been … Continue reading
DAILY BEAST: “How Gap Responded to Racism in Subway Ad with Sikh Model”
From The Daily Beast by Arsalan Iftikhar You would expect New York City—one of the nation’s most diverse cities, in which more than a third of its 8 million residents are born in a foreign country—to be a haven for … Continue reading
MAGAZINE COLUMN: “The LAX Airport Shooter is a Terrorist”
From The Islamic Monthly by Arsalan Iftikhar | November 2, 2013 Can you imagine for a moment that you woke up one morning to hear the news of one of our nation’s largest international airports essentially being held hostage by some … Continue reading
