Muslim World in Decline: Ahmadiyya Islam on the Rise
The Muslim Times’ Editor’s Note: Those with eyes open and sight working should not find it difficult to read this article and then see what is happening to Ahmadiyya Muslims […]
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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.
Urdu-video-Such is the Tradition: A new Programme on State Sponsored Ahmadiyya Muslim Persecution in Pakistan
Youtube: Alislam.org: A new urdu programme taking its title from a very famous couplet from Pakistan’s great poet, Faiz Ahmad Faiz highlights the plight and persecution of Ahmadiyya Muslims in […]
Urdu Video-Why Ahmadiyya Will not Vote in the General Elections- BBCبدھ چوبیس اپریل کا سیربین، حصۂ دوم
اس حصے میں شامل تھیں عالمی خبریں جن میں پہلی خبر تھی بنگلہ دیش سے جہاں دارالحکومت ڈھاکہ میں ایک آٹھ منزلہ عمارت کے گرنے سے کم از کم 100 افراد ہلاک اور سینکڑوں زخمی ہو گئے جس کی تفصيل عارف شميم کی رپورٹ میں شامل تھی۔ اس کے بعد […]
My name Is Urdu and I am not a Muslim
blog tehelka com: Dr MOhamamd Yaqub Aamir: Urdu hai mera naam main Khusrau ki paheli Main Meer ki humraaz hun Ghalib ki saheli (My name is Urdu and I am […]
The Future of Faith
Huff Post: by Dianne Butler Bass. Over the last year, it has become increasingly clear that there are two significant cultural forces reshaping the religious future: 1) the rise of the “unaffiliateds,” including atheists, agnostics, humanists, “spiritual but not religious” and post-theists; and 2) the rise of religious pluralism and […]
The Arrogance of Ignoring Muslim Women
By Murtaza Hussain is a political commentator and contributing writer at Al-Jazeera,The Guardian and Salon. Source: NY Times What do Muslim women want? In striking scenes around the world, ostensibly well-meaning topless women (mostly white Europeans) who think they know the answer have painted slogans across their chests, chanted and burned flags outside of mosques. […]
Greece pursues WWII reparations from Germany
Global Post: Greece is planning to pursue WWII reparations from Germany, the country tasked with paying off most of Greece’s240 billion-euro debt. The Greek Finance Ministry has compiled a report that […]
Bomber Motivated by Religion?: Media Regurgitates Government Propaganda
loonwatch: After the September 11th attacks, many Americans wondered, “why do they hate us?” President George Bush gave his now famous explanation: “They hate our freedoms.” Radical Islam, we are told, is to blame. When someone dares counter this argument by pointing out that “Muslim rage” is due to U.S. […]
The Consolidation of Theocracy- Pakistan’s Most Unfair and Un free Elections in 2013
Written for The Muslim Times by Abdul Alim: A dozen bombs hit Quetta, Karachi and Peshawar in the last 24 hours. A headline in a newspaper today states that fifty five known terrorists have been cleared to stand in elections. With killing of politicians and candidates in Khyber Pukhtunkhawa, Balochistan […]
The Muslims’ contribution
Times of Malta.com: by Laiq Ahmad Atif. Love is a powerful weapon that unites and brings people, communities, nations, religions and countries closer. In the same way, hatred and malice are the instruments of division and conflict. The editorial of The Times of April 4, ‘Maltese perception of Muslims’ shed […]
Richard Dawkins and the Unbearable Smugness of Tweeting
Huff Post: by Scott Stephens. Dawkins’ views on religion are by now extremely well-known, to the point of cultural saturation thanks to the media’s fixation with him. Dawkins makes for good copy — that’s why journalists love him. But the dogmatic assertions and withering dismissals that made Dawkins a media-darling, […]
War/Terrorism – Getting the Facts Right: Muslims vs. Christians
Terrorism and the other Religions Posted on 04/23/2013 by Juan Cole Contrary to what is alleged by bigots like Bill Maher, Muslims are not more violent than people of other […]
Thousands of Rohingya Muslims being Killed by “Peace loving” Buddhist Monks, but No one calls it Buddhist Terrorism
Editor’s Note: An incident in the US in Boston allows Islamophobes to come out guns blazing to paint Islam as a terrorist promoting Religion. Thousands of Rohingya Muslims have been killed in one of the worst ethnic cleansing since the Bosnian Muslim Genocide, by the Buddist Monks but no one […]
Why Americans should care about Ahmadiyya Muslims: CNN Blogs
CNN Religion Blogs: Editor’s Note: Naseem Mahdi is national vice president and missionary in charge of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA. By Naseem Mahdi, Special to CNN Last weekend, more than 6,000 Ahmadi Muslims gathered in Virginia for their 62nd annual convention. But with more than 2 million Muslims living in the United States, […]
Editorial: Ahmadi exclusion
Express Tribune: As has been the case since 1985, the country’s 200,000 Ahmadis will not be casting their ballots on May 11. They remain a community without representation and voice, marginalised within a society where they have been subjected to ceaseless discrimination, denied jobs and education, ostracised, beaten and sometimes […]
It’s Not What Happens to You That Matters, It’s How You React-Taylor’s Gift
Huff Post: by Todd Storch. Our oldest daughter Taylor has been buried. She was 13. The world as I knew it is over. Nothing makes sense. Up is down. Go is stop and left is right. I have no control. On the first day of our family ski trip, Taylor, […]
UK bill moves to limit power of Sharia Courts
CFP: By David C. Jennings Under the Arbitration Act of 1996, Muslims in the UK were empowered to resolve certain legal matters within their faith in a similar way to […]
China: officials seek to banish superstition
Global Post: In a rare discussion of the Chinese government’s policies on religion, China’s top religious affairs official told a state-run newspaper that the government wants its citizens to stop believing in superstitions about birth, death and fortune, Reuters reported. “For a ruling party which follows Marxism, we need to help […]
Don’t Blame Religion for Boston Bombings
religiondispatches: Now that the Boston bombers have been identified—one killed and the other brother captured—the next question is why? Why did they do it, and did religion play a role? As soon as it became clear that the Tsarnaev brothers were Muslim and that Tamerlan, the older of the two, had […]
Toddlers becoming so addicted to iPads they require therapy
The Telegrapgh: by Victoria Ward Children as young as four are becoming so addicted to smartphones and iPads that they require psychological treatment. Parents who have found themselves unable to wean their children off computer games and mobile phones are paying up to £16,000 for a 28-day “digital detox” programme […]