Imams failing young Britons, says Ahmadiyya Muslim leader
Epigraph: Love of your country is part and parcel of a Muslim’s faith. The Holy Prophet Muhammad Guardian: Young British Muslims are being let down by clerics who are under-educated […]
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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.
LISTEN: No, Religion Does Not Cause All Wars – A Conversation With Karen Armstrong
Huff Post: Welcome to this week’s ALL TOGETHER, the podcast dedicated to exploring how religious ideas and spiritual practice inform and shape our personal lives, our communities and our world. The show is hosted by Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush, the Executive Editor of HuffPost Religion. This week we talk to […]
Mehdi Hasan: sanctions for ‘dishonest, demonising press coverage’ of Muslims
Guardian: Misrepresentative portrayals of Muslims and other minorities will not stop unless newspapers are threatened with sanctions, Mehdi Hasan said yesterday. The columnist and political director of the Huffington Post […]
Mosque to host city peace conference
The Star: A Sheffield mosque is to hold a peace conference to commemorate the centenary of the start of World War I. The Bait-ul-Afiyat Mosque in Sussex Street is to […]
The Race for U.N. Secretary-General Is Rigged
FP: The U.N. secretary-general is the world’s chief diplomat, but most of the world doesn’t get much say in who gets the nod. In the end, it’s the U.N. Security […]
US wealth inequality – top 0.1% worth as much as the bottom 90%
theguardian: by Angela Manoghan — The research by Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman [pdf] illustrates the evolution of wealth inequality over the last century. The chart shows how the top 0.1% of families now own roughly the same share of wealth as the bottom 90%. The picture actually improved in the […]
Washington National Cathedral Hosts First Muslim Prayer Service
Huff Post: by Carol Kuruvilla — On Friday, the the Washington National Cathedral was filled with the sounds of Muslim prayers. Muslims and people of other religious traditions have participated in Christian […]
Foetal damage caused by alcohol ‘equivalent to attempted manslaughter’
theguardian: by Owen Bowcott — Lawyers pursuing compensation claim on behalf of child, say mother’s heavy drinking constitutes crime of poisoning The case has triggered a debate about the rights of the foetus and calls for women who drink excessively during pregnancy to be prosecuted. Pevere damage inflicted on an […]
Pakistan born kid becomes world’s youngest Microsoft IT specialist
Dawn: ISLAMABAD – Pakistani-Briton Ayan Qureshi, who has only just started going to primary school, successfully completed the assessment to become the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional on the planet. A five-year-old kid broke the previous record of six and a half by passing the exam at the age of five […]
Burma ‘backsliding’ on some reforms, Obama says before visit
theguardian — US president cites persecution of ethnic Rohingya Muslim minority and crackdown on journalists in assessment published as he is set to visit the country Burma policemen holding shields line up as they stand guard in front of the old ministers’ office in Yangon before Barack Obama’s visit Burma’s […]
65 Reasons to Believe Jesus Did Not Die on the Cross
Posted by Mirza Ghulam Rabbi Read about Jesus: The humble prophet of God – His life, Crucifixion & his death Author: Imam I. H. Kauser, National President of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Australia The […]
Uzbekistan students stage rare protest against forced labour in cotton fields
theguardian: by Joanna Lillis — Around a million Uzbeks are forced to help harvest the country’s ‘white gold’ every year. Now, students have tentatively begun to speak out against it.EurasiaNet.org reports Public servants are drafted in every year to help harvest the country’s crucial cotton crops. Uzbekistan’s practice of sending forced […]
Policy Brief: Reimagining Human Rights in Pakistan
<!–0–> Jinnah Institute Source By Asad Jamal A rising graph of extremism in Pakistan has triggered alarm on the plummeting standards of human rights protections and entitlements across the country. The recent burning of a Christian couple by a 1,500 strong mob on the outskirts of Lahore underscores the gravity […]
Latin America Is Losing Its Catholic Identity
NY TImes: These are heady days for Roman Catholics in Latin America. For the first time, one of their own is serving as pope, providing a visible reminder of the importance the region plays in the global church. But after a century in which nearly all Latin Americans identified as […]
Pope Francis Is Considering Making Marriage Annulments Cost-Free
Huff Post: VATICAN CITY (AP) – Pope Francis considers eliminating church charges for marriage annulments, revealing he once fired an official who tried to charge thousands of dollars for one. […]
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How The Gender Pay Gap Harms Women’s Retirement
Forbes: by Divya Raghavan — Women make up nearly half the U.S. workforce, receive more college degrees than men and are the sole breadwinners in four of 10 American households. Yet, they earn less than men at virtually every job — a persistent problem known as thegender pay gap. And […]
The Army Is Making Me Choose Between My Faith and My Country
Huff Post: All my life, I’ve dreamed of serving my country. But when I tried to enlist in the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) program at Hofstra University, I was told I couldn’t because of my religious beliefs. I follow the Sikh faith, which requires that I keep my hair […]
Russian Christians Urge President Of Pakistan To Pardon Asia Bibi
christiansinpakistan.com: Russian Patriarch Kirill of Moscow has sent a letter to the President of Pakistan Mamnoon Hussain, pleading him to pardon the blasphemy convict Asia Bibi. Asia Bibi is a Pakistani Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy. The letter was published on the Patriarchate website. The primate of the […]
Author Dan Brown: Science And Religion Are Partners
Huff Post: by Carol Kuruvilla Author Dan Brown has sparked plenty of intellectual debate during his career as a novelist by exploring the relationship between science and religion. While delivering […]