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.
theguardian: by Bruce Douglas — Members of Brazil’s growing evangelical movement are increasingly threatening to followers of Candomblé, as the churches compete for souls and space Candomble priestess Mae Beata de Iemenja invokes Ossae, the Yoruban god of medicine and herbs, during a Candomble ceremony in Nova Iguacu, Brazil […]
Huff Post: by Sydney Latimer — Dear Ms. Dolezal, I want to start out this letter by saying, if I were to meet you in the street, I would call you my sister and give you a hug. Not because I pity you, but because you are a human being […]
mic.com: by Natasha Noman — Late last week, Angelina Jolie gave a rabble-rousing speech on sexual violence at the African Union summit in Johannesburg. She said, in no uncertain terms, that ending […]
Vox.com; What if the media covered alcohol like it does other drugs? This was a question that came up in my coverage of flakka, a synthetic drug that made headlines after law enforcement blamed it for people running in the streets naked in delusional paranoia. What follows is a satirical […]
theguardian: by Deeyah Khan — Extremists love to have a demonised enemy, says film maker Deeyah Khan, but it doesn’t have to be inevitable that we give them one From Khan’s new documentary “Jihad: A British Story” former extremist Abu Muntasir in Afghanistan Deeyah Khan FuuseFilms Each of us handles […]
Business Insider: by Lisa Rapaport — (Reuters Health) – Roughly half of deaths from 12 smoking-related cancers may be linked directly to cigarette use, a US study estimates. While the largest proportion of deaths associated with smoking were for cancers of the lung, bronchus, trachea and larynx, about half of […]
theguardian — An attorney for the Sikh Coalition said the decision to let Iknoor Singh enlist while adhering to Sikh rules is ‘an important victory for religious freedom’ Sikhism, a 500-year-old religion founded in India, requires its male followers to wear a turban and beard A Sikh college student from New […]
Guardian: It might feel a little more convincingly like a Palace of Peace and Reconciliation, commissioned perhaps as a celebration of religious plurality, were it not for the seven tonnes […]
Daily Times: here are only a few countries in the world that deny their citizens the basic right to self-identity. Pakistan and Burma are two examples that come to mind. In both cases, the state-mullah nexus has changed the meaning of basic identities to exclude a group of people it […]
Huff Post: by Zianab bint Younus — Muslim women and the niqab are always a hot topic, always some good clickbait. There is always someone excited to go ‘behind the veil.’ Stock photosof ‘Muslim women’ and ‘niqab’ yield a plethora of images of kohl-eyed women wearing anything from an Afghan burka […]
Dawn.com: by Shada Islam — YES, let’s make fun of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s sexist praise of his Bangladeshi counterpart, Sheikh Hasina, for being tough on terror “despite being a woman”. Social media in India and the world over has had a field day with Modi’s comment. I’ve […]
theguardian: by Giles Fraser — Kazakhstan is at a decisive moment between a Soviet atheist past and an increasingly Islamic future United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-moon and Kazakh president Nursultan Nazarbayev at the Fifth Congress of the Leaders of World and Traditional Religions in Astana, Kazakhstan. It might feel […]
Tribune: UNITED NATIONS: United Nations peacekeepers commonly pay for sex with cash, dresses, jewelry, perfume, cell phones and other items, despite a ban on such relationships with people the world body is trying to help, a draft UN report concluded. The draft study by the UN Office of Internal Oversight Services […]
higherperspectives.com — According to two studies, published in 2006 and 2009, people who read fiction are the most capable of empathy and “theory of mind,” which is the ability to hold opinions and beliefs apart from their own. They entertain different types of ideas without necessarily rejecting them, nor changing their own beliefs. […]
Business Insider: by Bryan Logan — Dr. Tim Hunt, head of cell cycle control at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund is pictured after winning the Nobel Prize for Medicine in London Monday, Oct. 8, 2001. Sir Tim Hunt, a Nobel laureate and honorary professor at University College London has quit […]
Review of Religions: On 17 March 2012, Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad(aba), the Fifth Khalifa of the Promised Messiah(as) and Head of the worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at (Community), inaugurated the Baitul […]
Huff Post: CHICAGO (AP) — The American Medical Association has adopted policies against nonmedical vaccine refusals and for transgender people in the military. The nation’s largest doctors’ group says parents should not be able to refuse to have their kids vaccinated for personal or religious reasons. That’s because of the […]
FP: On Sunday morning, March 15th, 22-year-old Akash Bashir volunteered to guard the gates outside of St. John’s Catholic Church in Lahore, Pakistan. As the service drew to a close, an armed gunman strapped with explosives sprinted towards the entrance, firing at the gate. Bashir and a fellow security volunteer […]
Daily Times: ANKARA: A record number of women, together with Christians, ethnic Kurds and Armenians, are set to enter Turkey’s parliament after Sunday’s election, a huge shift for a country that has long viewed demands for diversity as a threat to national unity. Emblematic of the change sweeping parliament is […]
Source: The Guardian By Amelia Gentlemen — When Anna Zhavnerovich wrote about a beating she received from her boyfriend, it triggered a huge reaction. Now there are signs of a political shift in attitudes regarding the campaign to identify domestic violence as a crime What it’s really like to be […]