It consists of individual activists, journalists and academics in all parts of the world who share a common commitment to developing the social and political ideas of the Islamic movement, and promoting them as an alternative worldview to that of Western civilization.
Members include director Zafar Bangash of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Muhammad al-Asi and Imam Abdul Alim Musa of Washington, D.C., and Iqbal Siddiqui of London, now the editor of the Crescent International magazine.
[1][2] It is the continuation of a local Toronto Pakistani community paper founded in the early 1970s,[2] converted to an international news magazine by Kalim Siddiqui in 1980.
Other major contributors include Imam Muhammad al-Asi of Washington, D.C., whose tafsir is being serialised, M A Shaikh in London, and Perwez Shafi in Pakistan.
The publication has been subject of a controversy by B'nai Brith Canada as Crescent International has published many articles referring to homophobia, antisemitism and denying Israel's right to exist.