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.
France’s Oedipal Islamist Complex http://foreignpolicy.com/: France is at war! Perhaps. But against whom or what? Last November, when the Islamic State staged the shootings that killed 130 in Paris, it did not send Syrians. A year ago, when al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula purportedly ordered the deadly attack on […]
Russia-Insider.com: Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the spiritual leader of millions of Muslims belonging to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community made the remarks during a March 19 address to a number of high profile members of the UK government including cabinet minister Justine Greening, London mayoral candidate Zac Goldsmith and former attorney general […]
Washington Post: The promise of the “global war on terror” was that “it was better to fight them there than here.” That promise brought mass violence to Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Palestine, Yemen and Somalia — in the name of peace in the West. That formula has clearly failed. Tuesday’s bombings in […]
Aljazeera: A year on from the start of the Saudi-led coalition’s air strikes in Yemen and five years since the beginning of the Syrian civil war, what is Saudi Arabia’s endgame? In this week’s UpFront, Mehdi Hasan sits down with Abdallah al-Mouallimi, Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United Nations, to […]
Economist: THE LIFE of Jesus Christ has always been of interest to film-makers. The first feature-length film was released in 1906; by the time of Cecil B. DeMille’s 1927 blockbuster “The King of Kings” at least 39 movies had already taken on the subject. Many treat Jesus specifically as Christ, […]
Newsweek: In the wake of the tragic Brussels attacks, the world has been flooded with familiar knee-jerk, emotional responses. Symbolic of this superficial divide has been the Twitter hashtag #StopIslam, emerging as a conduit for polarized views. But, facing down extremism—one of the challenges of our age—requires level heads and sombre […]
Religious Pluralism and Civic Rights in a “Muslim Nation”: An Analysis of Prophet Muhammad’s Covenants with Christians Source: MDPI – Open Access Publishing By Craig Considine; Department of Sociology, Rice University, Houston, […]
Source: Review of Religions By Umar Nasser, who is a final year medical student at Imperial College, London. He is currently serving as Chair of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Students Association UK, and is the co-founder of Endofatheism.com, an initiative seeking to provide coherent answers to the questions posed by atheism in the […]
Esquire.com Leave it to Nobel Prize-winner Malala Yousafzai to tell it like it is. In an interview with United Kingdom’s Channel 4, Yousafzai warned hateful politicians about the danger of their anti-Muslim messages: “The more you speak about Islam and against all Muslims, the more terrorists we create,” she said. A good point—and […]
The Hindu: A group of about three dozen activists affiliated with Akhil Bharatiya Dalit Muslim Mahasangha (ABDMM), a non-profit welfare body which claims to bring India’s Dalits and Muslims together, staged a demonstration at Jantar Mantar Friday afternoon along with a pack of well-bred dogs. Chanting anti-government slogans, the president […]
Time: Last weekend during a basketball playoff game, roughly 50 to 75 fans of a Catholic high school in Bostonchanted: “You Killed Jesus” at the opposing side, a suburban school with many Jewish students. That chant, which grew out of taunts between fans of both Catholic Memorial School, a private […]
LONDON, UK (PRWEB UK) 17 MARCH 2016 A worldwide Muslim leader will deliver the keynote address at the National Peace Symposium in London on March 19 and reassert the role […]
Tribune: LAHORE: The Punjab Housing and Town Planning Agency (PHTPA) on Tuesday auctioned residential and commercial plots in Chiniot district following the placement of an advert that excluded Jamaat-i-Ahmadiyya adherents from the proceedings. Chenab Nagar, the headquarters of the JA, is situated in the district. The agency’s regional office in Jhang […]
http://theeagleonline.com.ng: The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Nigeria said on Tuesday that about 20 African countries would participate in its maiden youth games tagged: “Ahmadi Youths All African Games 2016.” Adedokun […]
http://piketty.blog.lemonde.fr: Public discussion on the place of Islam and Muslim populations in European societies is becoming increasingly hysterical. In the absence of precise information and research, we draw general conclusions on the capacity or the desire of tens of millions of people to integrate and live together from events which […]
Review of Religions: Mirza Bashir-Ud-Din Mahmud Ahmadra (1889–1965) was the second Successor of the Promised Messiahas and he was the Second Worldwide Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. He became the Khalifah of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community at the young age of 25 and steered and nourished it to its […]
BBC: “Islam hates us,” Republican frontrunner Donald Trump said in a CNN interview on Friday. Mr Trump later stood by his claim in a televised debate in Miami, saying: “There is tremendous hatred, and I will stick with exactly what I said.” It led to an outcry, with Senator Marco […]
http://theviewpoint.co: Muslims claim their religion teaches peace, harmony, love and goodness while the actions of some so-called adherents to the faith prove contrary. How can it be that on the one hand, their religion teaches good while some of its believers commit evil? Some suggest the reason being an inherent […]
National Geographic Channel went to 22 countries around the world to find out who people think God is. THE STORY OF GOD WITH MORGAN FREEMAN PREMIERES SUNDAY APRIL 3 at […]
Aljazeera: Netanyahu claims only Palestinians, not Israelis, ‘glorify terrorists’. I show he’s wrong: watch: