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.
Guardian: More than two-thirds of British Jews have a “sense of despair” every time an expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem is approved, and three-quarters think that Israel’s approach to making peace with the Palestinians is damaging its standing in the world, according to a […]
Huff Post: A Muslim woman is turning the hostility of Internet trolls into a “force for good” — one hate-filled tweet at a time. Dr. Susan Carland, an Australian academic and well-known figure in the country’s Muslim community, said she’s become all too accustomed to the “stream of toxicity” that […]
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Epigraph: Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be […]
Newsweek: CONSERVATIVE MUSLIMS ACCUSE THE MINORITY COMMUNITY OF CAUSING LAST MONTH’S EARTHQUAKE. Conservative Muslims in Pakistan’s northwest are blaming the animist Kalash for a powerful earthquake that flattened entire villages in October, claiming their immoral ways provoked Allah’s wrath, in the latest attack on a diminishing tribe fighting to keep […]
wandsworthguardian.co.uk: Members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association (AMYA) have joined with thousands of other young Muslims around the country to raise £400,000 on Remembrance Sunday. The fundraising came as part of the ‘Mercy 4 Mankind’ initiative, and included 130 volunteers from Wimbledon and Wandsworth selling poppies at 25 stations […]
Source: The Guardian By Yasmin Khan, who is the producer of Sindbad Sci-Fi. Follow her on Twitter @Ya5min_BL Jim Al-Khalili, physicist and Ziauddin Sardar, chair of the Muslim Institute, talk science, […]
Guardian: It has been 15 years since the UN security council passed resolution 1325, which aimed to end violence and abuse against women during war, and to bring women’s voices into peace talks. But there is little to show for it. Government forces, rebel groups and even peacekeepers are still […]
The Asian Image: Members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association were in Manchester’s Heaton Park to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds for charity. They took part in a 10k run to raise more than £400,000 for UK charities. The event is part of the ‘Mercy for Mankind’ series of […]
Yahoo.com: The Hague (AFP) – A Liberian teenager was Monday awarded the prestigious International Children’s Peace Prize for his “tireless campaigning” to end violence against minors. Seventeen-year-old Abraham Keita was […]
Huff Post: JAFFA, Israel — Amid ongoing violence between Palestinians and Israelis, a school in this city seems more determined than ever to teach Arab and Jewish children about coexistence. […]
http://tobingrant.religionnews.com: What are the political positions of religions and churches in America? This new graph maps the ideologies of American religious groups using data comes from Pew’s 2014 Religious Landscape Study. This survey included over 35,000 respondents. […]
WP: Virginia Tech police alerted the campus Thursday that a threat had been made against Muslims. “On Monday, Nov. 2, 2015, Virginia Tech Police Department received a report concerning graffiti that had been left inside a bathroom stall in Price Hall,” the alert read. ” The graffiti stated “I will be […]
Source: PBS American writer Carla Power and madrasa-trained Sheikh Mohammad Akram Nadwi debated Islam’s holy book in search of interfaith understanding. She has written about the experience in her new book If […]
LA Times: red, cold, hungry and roughly 800 feet from Mt. Everest’s summit, Samina Baig had only one thought in mind: “I have to reach the top,” Baig said. “I […]
Independent.co.uk: Another day, another myth about Muslims. The most recent one to set tongues wagging is that poppies offend Muslims. According to far-right groups like Britain First, Muslims hate poppies. Their claim comes after a few individuals, who are widely condemned in the Muslim community, criticised the poppy on the […]
pewforum.org: Modest Drop in Overall Rates of Belief and Practice, but Religiously Affiliated Americans Are as Observant as Before Is the American public becoming less religious? Yes, at least by some key measures of what it means to be a religious person. An extensive new survey of more than 35,000 U.S. […]
Economist: FAR from preaching abstinence from earthly pleasures, the Buddhist priests behind the counter of Vowz, a Tokyo bar, encourage the opposite. There are different paths to Buddha, says Yoshinobu Fujioka, the head priest, as he pours a gin and tonic for a customer. “Spiritual awakening can come in any […]
The NEWS: The role of the once-important religious parties in Pakistani politics has undergone a transition. Until the early 1990s, all of these parties had some sort of electoral strength which in pockets could prove decisive with some significance at the national political scene too. The steady erosion in their […]
By Rafia Zakaria, who is an attorney and human rights activist. She is a columnist for DAWN Pakistan and a regular contributor for Al Jazeera America, Dissent, & Guernica Dawn: […]