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.
Tribune: ISLAMABAD: It is important to talk about issues considered a taboo and an attitudinal change is required to protect Pakistani minorities. This was consented at the launch of Jinnah Institute’s (JI) report ‘State of religious freedom in Pakistan’ and screening of its documentary, ‘Strangers in Their Own Land’, on Tuesday. […]
Guardian: Fifteen centuries ago, Arab armies fanned out from the Middle East in search of conquest. For some who took part, the incentives were material – rich prizes were on offer from cities that paid tribute, surrendered or were sacked. For others, it was the spiritual rewards that appealed most: […]
19 January 2016 PRESS RELEASE JAMIA AHMADIYYA UK AND CANADA CONVOCATION TAKE PLACE IN JOINT-CEREMONY 25 graduates receive their Shahid degrees from Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community 17 graduates […]
Guardian: Contrary to Nick Cohen’s assertion that “civilisation came from the battering that religion took from the Enlightenment”, the initial spin-off of the latter was the horror of the French Revolution. A more positive development of the time was England’s free press, praised by Voltaire. In fact, Christianity has a […]
http://kashifmd.com: Mullahs (clergy) from all sects have been opposing the Ahmadi Muslims since the inception of the community by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (as) in 1889. Many leading clerics of United India called for a complete boycott of Ahmadis and incited attacks on them. They boasted that Ahmadiyyat would die in a […]
Source: Daily Times By Yasser Latif Hamdani As a Congressman, Jinnah viewed with suspicion the creation of the All India Muslim League in 1906 and was trenchantly opposed to the […]
Asiapacific.anu.edu.au: It’s an old enemy of Wahhabism. But is Indonesia’s Nahdlatul Ulama and its project of tolerant, peaceful Islam an antidote to the extremism of Islamic State? A statement late last year by Islamic State’s spokesman and senior leader, Sheikh Abu Muhammad Al Adnani, drew attention mainly because of his […]
The Indepedent: Do you recognise this man? He appears a world-away from western representations of Jesus Christ but using forensic data from the skulls of ancient first century Jewish men, […]
DHANGADHI: President Bidya Devi Bhandari said religious tolerance among people should promote peace and unity in the nation. Inaugurating the Godavari Amrit Mahasnan Divya Sahashra Kumbha Darshan Mela, a religious festival, in Godavari of Kailali today, Bhandari said religious tolerance should be promoted among people. Meanwhile, the Head of […]
Foreign Policy: The United States cannot ignore or choose to stay out of the brewing rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia. It is not a purely religious feud, and it is not someone else’s civil war — it’s a hornet’s nest in which Washington poked its finger by pursuing a […]
By Usama Khan; Biomedical Engineering, The Ohio State University, Pre-Medical, Ahmadi Muslim, Writer, Sleep Researcher, Musician Huff Post: You’re seven times more likely to be shot by a right wing extremist in the United States than you are to be shot by a Muslim extremist. But I guess facts don’t […]
(RNS) Rummana Hussain was one of those children whose Muslim parents envisioned her in a white coat with a stethoscope around her neck. Instead, she became a metro editor and reporter at the Chicago Sun-Times, where she covers criminal courts and remains the only Muslim member of the editorial staff. […]
Source: Dawn.com By Pervez Hoodbhoy THE mosque in Pakistan is now no longer just a religious institution. Instead it has morphed into a deeply political one that seeks to radically […]
http://time.com: Harvard’s great biologist/psychologist Steven Pinker is one of my favorites, even though I’m just starting to get into his work. What makes him great is not just his rational […]
Tribune: LAHORE: A citizen was compelled on Tuesday to move the district and sessions court after being cautioned against perusing Ahmadiyya literature. Petitioner Bilal Munawar told the court that some individuals had threatened to kill him after learning that he was reading Ahmadiyya texts. Munawar said he was a faithful, law […]
Pakistan Today: By Rabia Ahmad: It’s interesting how the blowback following recent terrorist incidents has forced people all over the world to re-examine their convictions. You wish we’d do the same, here in Pakistan. Dr Larycia Hawkins, who teaches political science at Wheaton College near Chicago, remarked on Facebook recently […]
Faithstreet.com: have a message for Muslims everywhere: it is time you accept the Caliphate. Before you object, before you let the vitriol and misunderstandings of the Caliphate make you stop […]
Boston Globe: IN 1979, WHEN I was a child, the Michigan community center that my father and great-grandmother founded to help Arab immigrants was gutted by fire. Investigation found that the center was targeted by racists. With the help of community residents — white, Latino, and black as well as […]
Telegraph: This week, the Anglican Communion may fall apart. The stated reason is disagreement about homosexuality. Liberal whites, especially in North America, support gay sex acts and same-sex marriage. African Anglicans oppose them because they go against what the Bible and Christian tradition say. This is a serious issue in […]
Ny Times: SITTWE, Myanmar — SOON the world will witness a remarkable sight: a beloved Nobel Peace Prize winner presiding over 21st-century concentration camps. Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, one of the world’s genuine heroes, won democracy for her country, culminating in historic elections in November that her party won […]