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.
The Week: Is ISIS Islamic? The president has weighed in, describing ISIS as a perversion of Islam. Graeme Wood’s massively researched cover story for The Atlantic argues that, by the lights of the group’s own adherents, yes, ISIS is very Islamic. Still others point out that the very question is […]
Source: Businessinsider.com Book review by Noah Friedman Chase F. Robinson, a historian on Islam, author of “Islamic Civilization in Thirty Lives,” and president of the CUNY Graduate Center, explains the misconception many […]
Source: The Washington Post By Julie Zauzmer; Reporter — Washington, D.C. BOSTON — In humans’ mysterious journey to become intelligent, socializing creatures like no other in the animal world, one innovation […]
Pakistan Today: A recent research found Islam is the only religion growing faster than the world’s population, and it will be the largest in the world by 2070. Analysing demographic changes in the world’s major religions, Pew Research Centre found Muslim population to grow by 73 per cent between 2010 and […]
Source: The Guardian By Kristina Keneally Every Muslim who speaks out is expected to own, explain and condemn any act carried out by Muslims worldwide. The same doesn’t apply to […]
Businessinsider.com: The INSIDER Summary • Mahershala Ali won best supporting actor for his performance in “Moonlight.” • Ali is the first Muslim actor to win an Oscar for acting. • His win and performance were met with universal praise. Mahershala Ali just took home his first Oscar ever. He won for […]
Economist: The Islamic Enlightenment: The Modern Struggle Between Faith and Reason. By Christopher de Bellaigue. Bodley Head; 398 pages; £25. To be published in America by Liveright in April; $35. […]
The Nation: what at does Stephen Bannon really believe? Because he hasn’t spoken much in public since becoming, as Time magazine puts it, “the Second Most Powerful Man in the World”—he’s the president’s influential chief strategist and now a member of the National Security Council’s principals committee—analysts have focused in […]
Aljazeera: German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said Islam is not the source of “terrorism” and that cooperating with predominantly Muslim states in the fight against it is vital. Merkel, who […]
Guardian: In the aftermath of the attacks of 11 September 2001, amid the grief and rage that followed the toppling of the World Trade Center, President George W Bush did not declare war on Islam. “These acts of violence against innocents,” he told Americans in the week after 3,000 people […]
Guardian: Millions of Jakarta residents will go to the polls on Wednesday in a vote that is being seen as a “litmus test” of Indonesian Islam. In the capital of the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation, the incumbent Jakarta governor Basuki Purnama Tjahaja, better known as Ahok, is battling to retain […]
Patheos.com: by Imam Rizwan Khan The Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association has been conducting a successful #MeetAMuslim campaign across the country where our youth take to the streets to introduce themselves to the community and spread peace and understanding. Taking note of this campaign, an anti-Islam website called JihadWatch put together […]
Doomsday Prep for the Super-Rich – The New Yorker Steve Huffman, the thirty-three-year-old co-founder and C.E.O. of Reddit, which is valued at six hundred million dollars, was nearsighted until November, 2015, when he arranged to have laser eye surgery. He underwent the procedure not for the sake of convenience or […]
http://rationalreligion.co.uk: By: Raden Roro, a convert to Islam Ahmadiyya Here are common allegations, memes, and popular quotes spewed by many atheists against all religions and all religious peoples. “Religions survive because they brainwash the young. Take away that brainwashing, and religions will die out” “We are all born atheists until someone […]
Source: The Guardian As hundreds of Islamic centres across the country welcome visitors, Labour leader warns against ‘demonisation’ of Muslims Jeremy Corbyn has challenged the “demonisation” of Muslims and sent […]
The Independent: Jewish people in a small Texas city handed Muslim worshippers the keys to their synagogue after the town’s only mosque was destroyed in a fire. The Victoria Islamic Centre burned down on Saturday and had previously been burgled—the cause is being investigated by federal officials. More:
Review of Religions: The Qur’an on War and Peace Hazrat Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad – Khalifatul Masih II(ra) One of the criticisms levelled at the Holy Qur’an is that its […]
Scroll.In: ‘Auto Da Fé’ shows how 400 years of migration in the face of religious persecution is a vicious cycle. As America rages over its president’s decision to ban the entry of refugees, this film looks at four hundred years of forced migration. There are no words, and yet every […]
Source: Irish News By John Monaghan THE Muslim community in Galway is hoping to produce an Irish language version of the Qur’an, if a translator for the project can be […]
Haaretz: The South London Liberal Synagogue plans to house a family of Syrian refugees, once it raises the funds to renovate an apartment where a caretaker once lived. The house of worship in Streatham belongs to Citizens UK, which campaigns on behalf of refugees and other social causes, The […]