City Forced To Allow ‘Reason Station’ Alongside ‘Prayer Station’
Huff Post: A Detroit suburb that allows a “prayer station” set up in city hall must also permit an atheist to set up a “reason station,” a federal judge ordered. […]
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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.
An estimated 12,000 religious minorities have fled Pakistan since 2009
After escape from Pakistan, Christian family hides in BANGKOK: They were a middle-class family in Pakistan, living in a comfortable three-bedroom apartment with a modern kitchen and a PlayStation for the three kids. Fluent in English, the father ran his own moving company while the mother taught art. A death […]
Why, to many critics, Mother Teresa is still no saint
Washington Post: Mother Teresa, the Roman Catholic missionary who became an international icon for her charitable work, has been dropped into modern India’s religious debate after the head of the Hindu nationalist group Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) criticized the intentions behind her work. “It’s good to work for a cause with selfless intentions. […]
Islam and the West at War
NY Times Op Ed: To call this movement, whose most potent recent manifestation is the Islamic State, a “dark ideology” is like calling Nazism a reaction to German humiliation in World War I: true but wholly inadequate. There is little point in Western politicians rehearsing lines about there being no […]
Dispatches: Choose Your Bigots Carefully, Malaysia
HRW: “Islam is evil” is just one of many anti-Muslim slurs uttered by retired Lt. Gen. William “Jerry” Boykin, executive vice-president of the Washington-based Family Research Council (FRC) and former undersecretary of defense for intelligence under US President George W. Bush. So one might assume that Malaysia, a predominantly Muslim […]
NY Times Op Ed: Unshackle the United Nations
LONDON — Glance at any newsstand or catch any rolling news channel, and you will be confronted by a seemingly unrelenting tide of horror. Limp bodies pulled from rubble, shells and barrel bombs pounding once leafy neighborhoods. Refugees huddled for warmth or risking life and limb for survival. Mass abductions […]
Rift Among Charlie Hebdo Staff on Future of Newspaper Enriched by Tragedy
WSJ: Once on edge of bankruptcy, satirical newspaper sold millions of copies after terror attack By Sam Schechner Sam Schechner The Wall Street Journal Feb. 24, 2015 12:05 p.m. ET PARIS—Less than two weeks after the terror attack that devastated their newsroom, Charlie Hebdo’s surviving staff members gathered in a […]
Hindu leader accuses Mother Teresa of serving India’s poor for conversion
Aljazeera.com: Alleged comments by one of India’s Hindu leaders, questioning the intentions of Mother Teresa’s charitable work in India have prompted debate on Twitter. On Monday, Mohan Bhagwat, leader of the pro-Hindu group, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), reportedly questioned the work of the Catholic nun, stating, “Here, the service isn’t […]
For richer, for poorer: how China’s laws put women second
Guardian: In Dadun village, in China’s southern Hainan province, some residents are more equal than others: the men. When inhabitants were told to make way for a tourism development, they learned that only men would receive compensation. Now, 92 angry female residents are suing the village committee. “The money used […]
London’s First Mosque – A Study in History and Mystery
Review of Religions: The Mystery of the Prince Why Prince Faisal declined to open the mosque, and pulled out only a few hours before the official inauguration, is a mystery. […]
Islam and Science – Concordance or Conflict? by Abdus Salam
By Dr Abdus Salam, Nobel Laureate in Physics A semi-quantitative measure of this is given by George Sarton in his monumental History of Science. Sarton divides his story of the […]
Muslim peace conference in Sheffield condemns terrorists ‘tarnishing’ Islam
The Star: The name of Islam is being ‘tarnished’ by the actions of terrorist groups claiming to represent the religion, a Sheffield peace conference has heard. Maulana Ata ul Mujeeb Rashed, the keynote speaker at the weekend event in Sheffield and the Imam of the central Ahmadiyya mosque in London, […]
Leaked cables show Netanyahu’s Iran bomb claim contradicted by Mossad
Guardian: Binyamin Netanyahu’s dramatic declaration to world leaders in 2012 that Iranwas about a year away from making a nuclear bomb was contradicted by his own secret service, according to a top-secret Mossad document. It is part of a cache of hundreds of dossiers, files and cables from the world’s […]
Healing our sectarian divide
Dawn: SHIKARPUR on Jan 30, Peshawar on Feb 13, Rawalpindi on Feb 18. In less than three weeks, suicide bombers have targeted three imambargahs packed with worshippers. Outside of Syria and Iraq, Pakistan is the world’s deadliest country for Shia Muslims. Hazara are fleeing Balochistan, and barricades surround segregated Shia […]
Pakistan: Our religion problem
Dawn: POST-Peshawar the need to rethink our national security policy and terminate the state’s patronage of jihadists has been under focus. Also under spotlight has been the state’s capacity deficit that partly explains the gap between law and its implementation (obsession with military courts being a misconceived response to this […]
True Khilafat (Caliphate) is Spiritual Leadership and Has No Interest in Power or Government
Alislam-egazette: Head of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community: “True Khilafat is Spiritual Leadership and Has No Interest in Power or Government” On Saturday 13 June 2014, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya […]
Could Al-Sisi win Nobel Peace Prize?
Daily News Egypt: Nader Soliman, founder and head of the Christian Youth Movement, is calling for President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi to be awarded the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize, Soliman told Daily News Egypt Wednesday. Soliman supported his request to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, who give out the award, […]
After Copenhagen shootings, Norway’s Muslims and Jews link up
Rappler.com: OSLO, Norway – Norwegian Muslims organized a peace vigil in Oslo Saturday, February 21, in a show of solidarity with Jews a week after fatal shootings in Denmark targeted […]