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.
Dawn: ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Inter-provincial Coordination (IPC) Riaz Hussain Pirzada has accused the Saudi government of creating instability across the Muslim world, including Pakistan, through distribution of money for promoting its ideology. Addressing a two-day ‘Ideas Conclave’ organised by the “Jinnah Institute” think tank in Islamabad, the federal minister […]
Guardian: The 13 year-old son of my oldest friend had his barmitzvah on Saturday, and a grand, grey Manchester day it was. He recited his piece of the Bible so […]
Source: Review of Religions, September 2011 Introduction Blasphemy, derived from the Latin Blasphemia, is generally defined as the exhibition of irreverent behaviour or language towards God, religion or anything held sacred. […]
The two nation theory was not as much an ideology as it was a lawyer’s argument to get his client — in this case the Muslim people of the subcontinent — a better deal in power sharing This article is partially in response to Muhammad Taqi’s column, ‘Pakistan, Islam and […]
Unreal Islam The word “takfīr” (pronounced “tuck – feer”) is one of the most fearsome words in the Islamic lexicon. Deriving from the same root as “kāfir” – infidel – it refers to the act of declaring someone who is nominally a Muslim to be an infidel. And, of course, […]
thedailybeast.com: Are All Terrorists Muslims? It’s Not Even Close What percentage of terror attacks in the United States and Europe are committed by Muslims? Guess. Nope. Guess again. And again… “Not all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims.” How many times have you heard that one? Sure, we […]
middleeasteye.net: Whenever I use the term “New Atheism”, I’m invariably asked, “What is that and what is old atheism?” So allow me to clarify. Wikipedia defines New Atheism as a “social and political movement” that advocates the view that religion should not be tolerated. The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy says […]
hrw.org: “The [French] Republic is freedom of expression,” said President Francois Hollande on January 7 in reaction to the horrific attack against the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo that left 12 people dead. But is it really? A wave of cases opened by the French judiciary over the past several days […]
Telegraph: The Oscars have been accused of “appalling” racial bias after nominating an entirely white line-up of actors for this year’s awards. It was only the second time in more than a decade that no black actor or actress has featured among the 20 nominees in the four acting categories. […]
Huff Post: In my new book The Myth of the Muslim Tide, I chronicle the widespread misunderstanding of Muslim immigration to the West. As with Jews and Catholics before, I […]
NY Times: On the same day that the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo immediately sold out an initial run of five million copies of its latest issue—which featured a cover image […]
theatlantic.com: When I was working on the student paper at Duke, we’d get a letter to the editor once a year or so that would lament that the university had lost touch with it religious roots as Trinity College, a Methodist school. The correspondents would invariably cite the university motto, […]
keighleynews.co.uk: THIS WEEK once again we have all witnessed the painful sickening scenes on our television screens when man regresses to his base animal instincts and becomes a wild barbarian, […]
Telegraph: Here’s a theory. Terrorists aren’t offended by cartoons. Not even cartoons that satirise the Prophet Muhammad. They don’t care about satire. For all I know they may not even […]
NY Times: WILL “moderate Muslims” finally “speak up” against their militant coreligionists? People around the world have asked (but, as in the past, have not all seriously examined) this question since last week’s horrific attacks on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and on a kosher supermarket in Paris. In […]
NY Times: President Obama was criticized for failing to attend, or send a proper surrogate to, the giant antiterrorism march in Paris on Sunday. That criticism was right. But it is typical of American politics today that we focus on this and not what would have really made the world […]
Huff Post: There has been plenty of fallout from last week’s Charlie Hebdo attack by Islamic extremists: a manhunt for the suspects, rallies in Paris and across Europe and heightened Islamophobia, not to mention the cartoonists at the magazine who lost their lives. In a HuffPost Live interview Tuesday, former […]
Haaretz.com: PARIS – The flags are back at full mast, the snipers have descended from the roofs and the marchers have gone back to work. World leaders are heading home, […]
Tim Willcox, a BBC reporter, sparked anger during his coverage of a rally yesterday in Paris when he told the daughter of a Holocaust survivor that “Palestinians suffer hugely at Jewish hands as well,” Daily Mail reported. The BBC journalist has since faced several calls to resign after he made […]
aljazeera.com: Christian militias in Central African Republic have carried out ethnic cleansing of the Muslim population during the country’s ongoing civil war, but there is no proof there was genocidal intent, a United Nations commission of inquiry has said. “Thousands of people died as a result of the conflict. Human […]