Why mislead children about Santa? Demystification is essential to faith
Those who cling on to the man with a beard in the sky are usually overly fearful of reality will kill belief By Giles Fraser The Guardian, Friday 13 December 2013 09.00 […]
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Dr. Abdul Alim
Dr. Abdul Alim is a national of Pakistan and is a physician with specialization in Public Health from University of Texas at Houston USA. He is a member of the reformist, democratic and moderate Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam which inspires his deep commitment to Human Rights, Social Justice, Peace and Secularism. He is an author and Editor on Islam, for The Muslim Times (www.themuslimtimes.Info), a global blog highlighting the positive and true character of Islam as a basis for peace building.
Professionally he is a member of Pakistan Medical and Dental Council, Human Rights Commission of Pakistan and UN Development Policy Network. He has more than 20 years of work experience in development management related to governance in social sectors, more specifically in public policy, programme planning, and monitoring and evaluation. For the last 15 years he has worked with the United Nations in the developing world covering countries in South Asia, South East Asia, CEE/CIS, and the Middle East.
Are Human Rights Compatible with Islamic Values?
Source: The Huffington Post By Ghazala Salam: Community and Government Relations Director for the Council on American Islamic Relations Florida, Inc. In the words of Prophet Muhammad: “You do not truly […]
Guy And His 4 Wives Win A Huge Victory In Utah Polygamy Case
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A federal judge ruled Friday that key parts of Utah’s polygamy laws are unconstitutional, handing a legal victory to a polygamist family that stars in the TV reality show “Sister Wives.” U.S. District Court Judge Clark Waddoups said in the ruling that the phrase in […]
British Man arrested in Pakistan for reading Qur'an
Katharine Houreld/ REUTERS: saultstar.com: LAHORE – A 72-year-old British doctor is in prison in Pakistan for “posing as a Muslim”, charges that reveal an escalating ideological fight that often spills over into violence. Masood […]
Pakistan’s Blasphemy Laws
muslimwriters.org: Religious blasphemy laws can be a touchy subject, especially in Pakistan, where just bringing up the subject of the blasphemy laws and whether they are right or wrong is considered, well …blasphemous. This wasn’t always the case. The sentiment behind most blasphemy laws is easy to understand. No person […]
Islam for Humanity: Humanity First in The Philippines
Posted by Falak Rahman By Brian Wilson (Humanity First Canada) – Monday, Nov 19, 2013 Humanity First (HF) teams from Canada, Indonesia and Philippines, conducted assessments in conjunction with the Canadian […]
Local teen an 'ambassador' for his faith
cantonrep.com: He’s just 14, but Labeeb Ahmad is mature beyond his years. The St. Thomas Aquinas High School freshman has become an ambassador of sorts for his faith. Ahmad and his family are adherents of a little-known sect of Islam known as “Ahmadiyya.” Founded in 1899, the Ahmadiyya Muslim community […]
VIEW : Will you be Pakistan’s Mandela? — Kashif N Chaudhry
How could a person celebrate Mandela’s fight against discrimination in his society and condone the same bigotry against a community at home? How can we love the doctor and the disease he fights, at the same time? One of the world’s most celebrated heroes passed away this week. Nelson Mandela […]
French panel: Let Muslims wear head scarves in school
PARIS: France should reverse decades of strict secularism to integrate its immigrant population better, allowing Muslims to wear head scarves in schools and promoting Arabic teaching, according to an iconoclastic […]
Money May Corrupt, but Thinking About Time Can Strengthen Morality
ScienceDaily — Dec. 10, 2013 — Priming people to think about money makes them more likely to cheat, but priming them to think about time seems to strengthen their moral compass, according to new research published inPsychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. The research, conducted by psychological […]
Stop Blaming Religion for Violence
Huff Post: by SEAN MCELWEE — Religion has once again become the “opiate of the people.” But this time, instead of seducing the proletariat into accepting its position in a capitalist society, it lulls atheists into believing that abolishing religion would bring about utopia. The impulse to destroy religion will ultimately […]
Medical Consequences of a Nuclear War – A Pointless Tragedy for Humanity
Review of Religions — Professor Amtul Razzaq Carmichael – UK November 2013 Models in Hiroshima museum depicting the scene after the nuclear bomb was dropped. The skin of those directly affected literally melted away due to the intense heat and radiation. “I know not with what weapons World War III […]
Letter to The President of Russia
The Review of Religions — November 2013 – 16 Gressenhall Road Southfields, London SW18 5QL, UK 18 September 2013 His Excellency Mr. Vladimir Putin President of the Russian Federation The […]
Blasphemy: Man accused of preaching Ahmedi beliefs denied bail
ET; LAHORE: A judicial magistrate on Saturday dismissed the post-arrest bail application of a doctor accused of preaching Ahmedi doctrines and distributing books containing derogatory remarks against prophets. Dr Masood Ahmed had filed a post-arrest bail stating he had nothing to do with the matter. Advocate Ghulam Mustafa Chaudhry, counsel […]
Nelson Mandela, Champion Of The Human Spirit
Huff Post — “What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.” — Nelson Mandela Nelson Mandela has died, but the power of his […]
How a Muslim Experienced Agape at Puja
Huff Post: by Aamir Hussain — One aspect of puja that really resonated with me was music. However, I soon discovered that Islam did have a semi-musical tradition in spirituality, and that it was sometimes not emphasized. One form of this was the art of tajweed: eloquent, almost musical recitation of […]
Two Hundred Verses about Compassionate Living in the Quran
posted by Zia Shah Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD As only the Islamophobes, who hate Islam or those Muslims, who want to enforce Shariah Law, of their imagination, […]
Ancient Manuscripts to go Online
Huff Post — VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican Library and Oxford University’s Bodleian Library have put the first of 1.5 million pages of ancient manuscripts online. The two libraries in 2012 announced a four-year project to digitize some of the most important works of their collections of Hebrew manuscripts, […]
The Mystery of God and the Brain
Huff Post: by Deepak Chopra — To summarize the situation, we have three mysteries that we do not understand: the unpredictable movements of atoms, the existence of our own consciousness, and the friendliness of the universe to life and mind. I am only saying that the three mysteries are probably […]
Circumcisions to Help Prevent AIDS Are on the Rise
A painting of Abraham’s departure by József Molnár. It was with Prophet Abraham that male circumcision started The NewYork Times: by Donald G. McNeil Jr. – Circumcision for AIDS prevention is increasing rapidly […]