Scientists More Trustworthy Than Church Leaders, Survey Finds
Huff Post: Who would you trust more, a scientist or a member of the church? Most people see scientists as the most honest of all professionals, a survey has revealed, […]
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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.
Why can't a state be based upon the "real Islam"?
el-baghdadi.com: A common comment I hear from Muslims is that a government based upon “real Islam” will be a just and prosperous government. While as a Muslim I do believe that Islam enjoins justice & liberty, and that Islam has something to say beyond the private realm, the main issue here […]
Amnesty International says US could be guilty of war crimes over use of drones
Telegraph: Human rights campaigners will today demand that American officials be held responsible for illegal killings carried out by drones and call for greater transparency over its secret programme. A new report by Amnesty International details how civilians have been killed in Pakistan – including a 68-year-old grandmother who died […]
Targeting of Ahmadis continues in Pakistan
indexoncensorship.org: As the Muslim festival of Eid ul Adha drew to a close last week, it left a bad taste in the mouth of several Pakistanis when they heard that those belonging to the Ahmadi community were stopped from performing the ritual of animal sacrifice because they are “non-Muslims”. According to […]
A Worldwide Fight Against Street Harassment
The NewYork Times: by Joe Sharkey – Female friends and I began having conversations with male friends who were shocked to hear our stories. One guy looked at me and said, ‘You live in a different New York City than I do.’ And I was like, ‘What’s up with that? […]
The two Muslim narratives
JewishJournal.com: by Qasim Rashid – The Muslim world finds itself amidst a battle of two narratives — one of oppression and one of justice. The oppressive narrative enforces death for […]
Terrorist blast kills at least 5, injures over 20 in Volgograd, central Russia
RT Preliminary data suggests that a female suicide bomber conducted the attack on the bus in Volgograd, central Russia, killing six people and injuring 20, according to the Russian Investigative Committee. A terrorist act has been confirmed by the National Anti-terrorist Committee. “Today at 2:05pm Moscow time [10:05 GMT] in […]
The Malaysian 'Allah' ban is about putting minorities in their place
guardian: “Allah” means God, unless you are a non-Muslim Malaysian, in which case you have to find another word. After a recent court ruling in the country, Allah can now be used only to refer to the Muslim God, and non-Muslims (mainly the Malaysian Christian Catholic community and press) have been banned […]
China aiming for 'de-Americanised world’ with renminbi replacing dollar
telegraph: China has overtaken the US as the world’s largest oil importer and goods trading nation. Over the next five years, it will surpass the rest of the world combined in its consumption of base metals. Given the scale of the country’s consumption of fossil fuels and raw materials, it […]
B.C.’s largest mosque opens its doors: Hopes to teach community about Islam
vancouversun.com: The Ahmadiyya Muslim community started out in the basement of a small house in Burnaby in the mid 1960s. Now prayers are said in a new $8-million mosque in […]
USCIRF to President Obama: Raise Religious Freedom Concerns with Pakistani Prime Minister
Source: Press Release During his October 23 White House meeting with Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, USCIRF urges President Obama to raise concerns about the dire religious freedom situation in […]
Pakistan's Prime Minister-Dead or…..?
The Express Tribune: by Fahd Husain — The abnormality of normalcy A weird silence has descended upon the government, punctuated only by the sounds of explosions and the hapless shrieks of dying victims. Each killing, each massacre makes Sharif brood more and do less. He is numb. He is indecisive. […]
Accepting our ignorance
Dawn.com: by Raasti Said – Growing up in Pakistan to become an informed citizen is no easy feat. The country is accompanied by its fair share of ignorance and bias against Israel and the West as exists in the West towards the Middle East and South Asia. During my first […]
Urdu: Absolutely hair raising Fatwa against Pakistani Journalists, Reporters and Media by Taliban
ہم پیشکش :: صحافیوں، رپورٹرز اور میڈیا والوں کے بارے میں تحریک طالبان پاکستان کے علمائے کرام کا تاریخی فتوی بسم اللہ الرحمن الرحیم تحریک طالبان پاکستان (مرکزی امیرحکیم اللہ محسود حفظہ اللہ) شوریٰ علماءمجاہدین، تحریک طالبان پاکستان صحافیوں، رپورٹرز اور میڈیا والوں کے بارے میں تحریک طالبان پاکستان کے علمائے […]
Are Ahmadis Non-Muslims?
Credit to Pakteahouse: Repost: By Yasser Latif Hamdani The poison of ignorance and extremism that Bhutto and General Zia jointly fathered during their dictatorial regimes has fully indoctrinated even those who otherwise describe themselves as educated. This week the Large Hadron Collider at the CERN inched closer to the discovery […]
U.N. tells U.S. to release drone assassination data
Salon.com: A report by a UN expert urges the US to ‘release its own data on the level of civilian casualties’ caused by drone strikes and attacks the lack of transparency surrounding CIA and US special forces drone operations. Ben Emmerson, a British barrister and UN special rapporteur on counter-terrorism, […]
Prominent British Muslims warned over 'Shebab' video
ET: LONDON: Several prominent British Muslims said Friday that police have warned they may be in danger, after they were named as enemies of Islam in a video purportedly made by […]
Women Make Better Doctors Than Men
Time: At least that’s what a recent study of diabetic patients found. But the boys shouldn’t pack up their doctor kits yet. In a new report released by the University of Montreal, investigators found that women outperformed men on certain metrics of patient care. Valérie Martel, a masters candidate in […]
A Secular Constitution for a Pluralist People – Atheist Ireland Submission to Constitutional Convention
By MICHAEL NUGENT on OCTOBER 18, 2013 Atheist Ireland has today made this submission to the Constitutional Convention. 1. Executive Summary 1.1 Atheist Ireland is an advocacy group for atheism, reason and ethical […]