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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.
Video Gamers Really Do See More
ScienceDaily: Hours spent at the video gaming console not only train a player’s hands to work the buttons on the controller, they probably also train the brain to make better and faster use of visual input, according to Duke University researchers. “Gamers see the world differently,” said Greg Appelbaum, an […]
Where Atheism Stops And Religion Begins
Huff Post: by Andrew Schwartz. Many of my friends who have transitioned from being religious to being atheists speak of the deep existential peace that it gives them. This is huge and nothing to be argued with. Anyone who has found themselves on the despair side of Sisyphean struggle knows […]
Caliph Umar Farooq vs.Emperor Heraclius: Who gave us our Religious Freedoms?
islamforwest.org: Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD Epigraph: There should be no compulsion in religion. Surely, right has become distinct from wrong; so whosoever refuses to be led by […]
Mecca: a city losing its spirituality?
Daily Times: The Mecca of today is different from old times, much more business-oriented and driven by money. It looks more like a commercial hotspot instead of a Divine residence Muslims disagree on almost everything. From the timing of their prayers or fasts to insignificant nuptial details, on every issue […]
International Criminal Court rejects Investigation of Pope Benedict for Clergy Sex Abuse
Huff Post: NEW YORK — The International Criminal Court has rejected a longshot request by clergy sex abuse victims to investigate former Pope Benedict XVI and Vatican cardinals for possible […]
Hear No Evil, See No Evil
Huff Post: by Charles Redfern. Someone picked up scissors and snipped our mentalities. Our thoughts lay like scraps on the floor: thinking is severed from doing; spirituality is cut from its heritage and theological reflection mutates into one-liners from an adolescent-like preacher in an empty comedy club. Such imagery comes […]
Google should ban Pakistan
ET: For a journalist, perhaps nothing is a greater violation of human rights than the denial of access to information. In the case of Pakistan versus YouTube, I think the nine-month banon Google’s video-sharing website is really the limit of regressive and, in the eyes of any global citizen who accepts the […]
Nanotechnology and religion: a complex relationship
theguardian: by Michele Catanzaro. There is much evidence that public views on nanotechnology will be shaped by religious beliefs. If synthetic bacon has never been part of a living pig. Is it still forbidden under Islam’s halal laws? In the science fiction short story Halo, a panel of Muslim scholars discuss a […]
Why NSA spying scares the world
CNN: Editor’s note: Ronald Deibert is a professor of political science at the University of Toronto, where he is director of the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies and the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs. He is author of “Black Code: Inside the Battle for Cyberspace” (Signal/McClelland & […]
Egypt’s worrying rise in criminal blasphemy cases
Amnesty International: Criminal “defamation of religion” charges must be dropped in a number of cases across Egypt, Amnesty International said today after a teacher was convicted for insulting Islam and the Prophet Muhammad in the classroom. A Luxor court on Tuesday fined Coptic Christian teacher Dimyana Obeid Abd Al Nour […]
Can the UK end religious violence?
Aljazeera: There has been a disturbing increase in anti-Muslim attacks in the UK after the murder of a soldier in May. A number of mosques and Islamic institutions in the […]
How growing a beard made me ‘a terrorist’
theguardian: by Alex Andreou. When I changed my appearance for an acting job I experienced the ugly shadow of discrimination cast on ‘Muslim-looking’ people She came on the No 1 bus around the New Kent Road with her toddler already having quite a tantrum. She dragged him on by his […]
Egypt replaces Waziristan as main training centre for militants: Report
ET: BERLIN: A new German intelligence report presented on Tuesday showed that Egypt had replaced Waziristan as the main centre for the training of militants. German intelligence voiced concern over the growing number of ultra-conservative Islamic extremists in the country, some of whom are swelling militant ranks abroad, while warning of […]
Andrew Bennett, Canada’s Ambassador of Religious Freedom Voices Support for Kazakh Ahmadiyya Muslims
FOREIGN AFFAIRS New religious-freedom watchdog faces uphill battle STEVEN CHASE OTTAWA — The Globe and Mail Published Friday, Jun. 07 2013, 6:00 AM EDT Last updated Friday, Jun. 07 2013, 6:12 AM EDT After he was released from more than a week of detention by Sri Lankan police last month, Muslim leader Azath Salley […]
Reclaiming the Beard on Behalf of Christianity
Huff Post: by Craig Considine. The Bible and other artifacts of Christian history show us the long history of the beard in Christianity. The most clear biblical passage to condone beards comes from Leviticus (19:27): “You shall not cut the hair on the sides of your heads, neither shall you […]
Pope confirms ‘gay lobby’ at work at Vatican
Salon.com: VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis lamented that a “gay lobby” was at work at the Vatican in private remarks to the leadership of a key Latin American church […]
Dr. Abdus Salam: The Coffee House of Lahore by K.K. Aziz
vudesk.com: The Coffee House of Lahore By K K Aziz CHAPTER 7: THE ROLL OF HONOUR: ABDUS SALAM Among my contemporaries and colleagues in Government College, companions in the Coffee House of Lahore and friends at these places and Elsewhere there is only one genius, and that was Abdus Salam. Salam was […]
Sectarian killing: Ahmedi community member killed in targeted attack
ET: KARACHI: A member of the Ahmedi community was shot dead while his son and another companion were injured in a targeted attack in Soldier Bazaar on Tuesday evening. The […]