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.
Source: Newsweek Pakistan AS PART OF COW PROTECTION PUSH, GUJARAT GOVERNMENT HAS ERECTED BILLBOARDS CLAIMING TO SHOW THE QURAN DISCOURAGES CONSUMPTION OF BEEF. By Punit Paranjpe—AFP A Muslim leader in India warned Wednesday of communal unrest after a state government claimed the Quran discourages eating beef, the latest contentious effort to […]
Source: The Independent Two teachers at an Islamic school in Birmingham have been jailed for 12 months for “brutally” beating a young boy with a stick. The 10-year-old victim was repeatedly beaten for offences such as “talking in class” or “failing to read the Koran accurately” at Sparkbrook Islamic Centre […]
Huff Post: by Idrija Bose — An elderly Sikh-American man was brutally attacked and allegedly called a “terrorist” and “Bin Laden” in Chicago on Tuesday, Sikh advocacy groups report. The incident occurred just days before the 14th anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Charges have yet to be filed, but police are […]
Tribune: ISLAMABAD: The federal government is considering legislation to ban sectarianism and any attempt to finance sectarian hatred. Takfir, meaning one Muslim declaring another Muslim Kafir (apostate), will be considered a […]
Economist: Not in God’s Name: Confronting Religious Violence. By Jonathan Sacks. Hodder & Stoughton; 305 pages; £20. To be published in America in October by Schocken; $28.95. THE Western world […]
By Kashif N. Chaudhry; Physician, writer and human rights activist Huff Post: Religious clerics in Pakistan celebrate September 7th as a day of victory for Islam and Pakistan. Officially dubbed the […]
FP: Pope Francis has won praise around the world for advancing a more humble, tolerant version of Catholicism, but there’s one country that he evidently hasn’t won over. Saudi Arabia […]
The Holy Prophet Muhammad (sa) ADVENT OF THE MESSIAH IN THE LATTER DAYS Allah’s Apostlesa came to us all of a sudden as we were busy in a discussion. He said: […]
The Argus Observer: by Steven Savoia — A billboard proclaims the teachings of Islam near the Massachusetts Avenue Exit of I-93 north in Boston. Dozens of billboards with Muslim themes […]
Daily Caller: It is difficult to carry a dialogue with a person who attacks your character. This came to light again last week as my social media feed spiked with memes, tweets, and posts mocking Kim Davis’ appearance, looks, weight, and marriage history. Kim Davis, the Kentucky clerk who has […]
http://www.rabwah.net: The leader of a Muslim community has called for a global solution for the refugee crisis in Europe, saying Arab countries should ‘first and foremost’ provide refuge for migrants.And, […]
The Electronic Intifada: The UK parliament may debate whether Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should be arrested for war crimes. This is because more than 100,000 UK citizens and residents […]
medium.com: When you visit a mosque, you don’t really expect to go through a fence topped with barbed wire and be greeted with men carrying rifles. But when it’s a mosque where dozens of worshipers were gunned down and killed five years ago, it’s become necessary. There are an estimated two […]
http://thewire.in/: Even as the medieval period of Indian history is remembered by some only for the demolition of Hindu temples and the conversion of Hindus to Islam, we hardly stop to notice some instances to the contrary – when mosques were demolished and replaced by temples and when Muslims were […]
healthy-holistic-living.com How The Honey Bee Helps Health issues are constantly on the rise, water shortages are growing issues. Yet, what could be considered to be one of the most health threatening epidemics facing society today, passes by without so much as a whisper from main stream media. What is this epidemic you ask? […]
Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orban, has made nationalistic and controversial statements in the past. But with his country emerging as a main gateway for refugees trying to reach richer European nations, his words suddenly carry much heavier weight. On Thursday, Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine newspaper published an op-ed by Orban in which he claimed […]
ScienceDaily — Significant insights for development of vaccine against asthma Growing up on a farm provides protection against asthma and allergies. Credit: © ambrozinio / Fotolia Researchers at VIB (a leading life sciences institute in Flanders, Belgium) and Ghent University have successfully established a causal relationship between exposure to so-called […]
ScienceDaily: by Kristen Morales — Middle-schoolers who feel they can make their own decisions about exercising are more likely to see themselves as a person who exercises, which in turn makes them more likely to exercise, said Rod Dishman, a professor of kinesiology in the UGA College of Education. Credit: […]
Source: Huffington Post By Sarah Sayeed, Ph.D. Director of Community Partnerships, Interfaith Center of New Growing up Muslim in America, I learned that there were many rules about speech. At home, […]
middleeasteye.net: Earlier this month, the European court of human rights (ECHR) issued a judgment in which it rejected a challenge to the controversial 2011 French law banning the wearing of […]