Since September 11, 2001, the world’s basic understanding of Islam has been shaped largely by the media’s fixation on Islamic fundamentalism.Today, a new generation of Muslim public intellectuals and citizen diplomats seeks to regain the essence of Islam from the terrorists who hijacked their religion. Adhering to a completely nonviolent Muslim ideology that is the polar opposite of the toxic pathology of “Islamic extremism,” these mainstream Muslim thought leaders and political visionaries couple their faith with a firm pacifistic platform based soundly on the basic principles of peaceful coexistence with all of humanity. In an attempt to eradicate every form of global racism and to honor human rights for all persons, these young Muslim visionaries regularly travel from television studios to local mosques helping to spread the message of this new Muslim sociopolitical global movement known as Islamic pacifism.

A leading American Muslim human rights lawyer and prominent global media commentator, Arsalan Iftikhar officially introduces the rest of the world to the new humanitarian ethos known as Islamic pacifism in this book. Although the movement and its origins are global, Iftikhar believes it could especially flower and come to further realization here in the United States.