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.
Ahamdiyya Muslims are building mosques around the world. By Grace of Allah Germany is moving ahead with the construction of 100 mosques, a scheme given by Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad (RA) Khalifatul Masih the IV. […]
HUffington Post: Maria Mayo Religion in America on July 4, 1776 Posted: 07/04/2013 7:26 am When the Declaration of Independence was drafted on July 4, 1776, religious practice in the 13 colonies of the United States was colorful and varied. The quest for independence — as well as loyalist […]
Huff Post: Surveys have frequently shown that the number of religiously unaffiliated Americans — including but not limited to atheists, agnostics and people who are spiritual but not religious — are increasing, with there being about one in five people who now claim no religion. A new survey from the Pew Research Center has […]
newsweekpakistan: GOVERNMENT SAYS ALL CASES WILL BE CONSIDERED INDIVIDUALLY AS AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL URGES PAKISTAN TO RECONSIDER ENDING THE MORATORIUM. Pakistan’s new government has ended a moratorium on executions, an official said Thursday as Amnesty International raised concerns about the “shocking and retrograde step.” Under the previous government led by the […]
thegatewaypundit.com: In 2010 Le Pen spoke out against the Muslim “occupation” of France. Aljazeera reported: French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has been stripped of her European Parliament immunity and may […]
Source: religiondipatches.com Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world; by non-hatred only is hatred appeased. This is an unending truth. — Dhammapada, 5 Harsh voices of intolerance have become almost […]
Source Twitter – Tweet by Noam Chomsky Independence Day was designed by the first state propaganda agency, Woodrow Wilson’s Committee on Public Information (CPI), created during World War I to whip a pacifist country into anti-German frenzy and, incidentally, to beat down the threat of labor which frightened respectable people […]
The 65th annual Convention of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community was attended by 6000 this year Source: Eurasia Review By Katrina Lantos Swett: She earned her Ph.D. in History with a focus on Human Rights and United States Foreign Policy from the University […]
Huff Post: by Steve Rose. Channel 4 has taken the conscious decision to ‘shock’ and inform the British public by airing the Islamic call to prayer (adhan) throughout Ramadan. Muezzin Hassen Rasool will record the call to prayer, at the same time it is played in mosques around London (around […]
Business Insider: by Lindsay Abrams. PROBLEM: “Among humankind’s most valuable assets” is self-control, according to Wilhelm Hofmann and his team of researchers at the University of Chicago. They define it as “the ability to override or change one’s inner responses” and to refrain from acting on impulses. As an immediate consequence […]
A youtube clip in Urdu with English subtitles where one of Pakistan’s most famous Poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz, the winner of Lenin Peace Prize, recites a famous poem – Chali hai Rasm – Such has become the custom. Even after decades have passed the poem remains fresh and even more […]
Russia Today: ‘An act of aggression and violation of international law’ is how Bolivia’s UN envoy described Austria’s decision to search the Bolivian presidential jet for NSA leaker Edward Snowden. The envoy has pledged to make an official complaint to the UN. Read the full story on the presidential plane grounding and […]
CAIRO – Egypt’s state-run Al-Ahram newspaper said it expected President Mohamed Morsi would either step down or be removed from office on Wednesday when a deadline set by the army for resolving the country’s political crisis expires. Egypt’s flagship state daily said an army road map for the future would set […]
Cancer in a Can: The Shocking True Story of how Pringles are Made By Dr. Mercola To understand the nature of Pringles and other stackable chips, forget the notion that they come from actual potatoes in any recognizable way. The Pringles Company (in an effort to avoid taxes levied against […]
Exclusive to themsulismtimes by Abdul Alim: Over this weekend, while millions of Muslims turned up in a chaotic show of force in Egypt and dozens more were killed in bombings in Pakistan, Syria […]
hup.harvard.edu: Book review and talk: Muhammad and the Believers: By Fred Donner The origins of Islam have been the subject of increasing controversy in recent years. The traditional view, which […]
Express Tribune – Urdue English here: Suicide attack the biggest sin in Islam: Fatwa Pakistani Taliban are just a group of professional assassins, edict stated. By Web Desk Published: July 3, 2013 Edict was given in the wake of the recent killings of foreign tourists and attacks in Peshawar […]
BBC: The head of Channel Four’s factual programming has explained the decision to broadcast the Muslim call to prayer every morning throughout Ramadan. Ralph Lee told the Radio Times it would act […]
Science & Diplomacy: by Fernando Quevedo. One of the major scientific discoveries of the past decades was announced on July 4, 2012. On this day, the world learned of the discovery of a new fundamental particle that may be the long-sought Higgs particle, the only component of the standard model […]