A Historic Contender for Canada’s Top Political Job
Source: New York Times By Dan Bilefsky VANCOUVER, British Columbia — The head of one of Canada’s major political parties tells a story about how at age 8, he decided […]
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Zia H Shah
He is a physician practicing in Upstate New York. He is the Chief Editor of the Muslim Times, which has more than 43,000 followers in Twitter. He is also Chair of Religion and Science for the Muslim Sunrise, the oldest Muslim publication in North America. He has authored more than 400 articles on Islam, Christianity, Secularism and Religion & Science. Follow in Twitter: @The_MuslimTimes
Video: Are you like a Honeybee or a fly?
Are you like a Honeybee or a fly? The mindset behind successful relationships! Shr Radhanath Swami The Muslim Times has the best collection for self help and human psychology. Incidentally, […]
Male circumcision: To be or not to be that is the question?
Foreskin reclaimers: the ‘intactivists’ fighting infant male circumcision Source: The Guardian By Gary Nunn Emboldened by the body-positive movement and a sense of rage, a growing chorus is pushing back […]
Whose God Is the One True God?
Source: The Huffington Post, from 2014 By Ronald Tiersky, Eastman professor of political science, Amherst College As ISIS/Islamic State takes over Mosul and other parts of Syria and Iraq it is […]
Our Favorite Christian Prayer by Saint Francis
Saint Francis of Assisi (Italian: San Francesco d’Assisi); nicknamed Francesco; 1181/1182 – October 3, 1226)[1][3] was an Italian Catholic friar and preacher. He founded the men’s Order of Friars Minor and the women’s Order […]
Forget new crewed missions in space; NASA should focus on saving Earth
Epigraph: The sun and the moon run their courses according to a fixed reckoning. And the stemless plants and the trees humbly submit to His will. And the heaven He […]
PM Imran departs for 3-day US trip on commercial Qatar Airways flight
Source: Dawn Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday departed for his 3-day visit to the United States on a commercial Qatar Airways flight. He will arrive in Washington on Saturday […]
Trump Defends His Racist Tweets | The Daily Show
President Trump tries to rationalize his racist comments about four freshman Democratic congresswomen as a condemnation of Americans who criticize America. The Muslim Times has the best collection to refute […]
Muslim group launches campaign to take Fridays off for Jummah prayers
By Ayesha Khan HARRISBURG, Pa. (RNS) – When Harris Zafar’s oldest child starts middle school in the fall, Zafar plans to sit down with the school administration for a talk. […]
Video: Abdul Shakoor chashmayway meeting Trump
The Muslim Times has the best collection to refute sectarianism among the Muslims and Islamophobia in the West. Urdu Video: Ghamidi Declaring Ahmadis to be Muslims https://t.co/CPRWv4QRH0 via @wordpressdotcom — TheMuslimTimes (@TheMuslimTimes2) January 9, 2018 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
More than 60 British lords criticize Labour’s Corbyn over anti-Semitism
LONDON (Reuters) – More than 60 opposition Labour members of Britain’s upper house of parliament signed a statement in a newspaper on Wednesday accusing leader Jeremy Corbyn of failing “the […]
The internet as religious experience
Source: BBC News By Amol Rajan For most of recent human history, by which I mean the last few millennia, social organisation has been rooted in practical faith. Religion, which departs […]
Exclusive: India’s ruling party to revive plan for Hindu settlements in Kashmir
Source: Reuters BY Devjyot Ghoshal, Alasdair Pal NEW DELHI/SRINAGAR (Reuters) – India’s ruling party will revive a plan to build secured camps to resettle scores of Hindus in the Muslim-dominated Kashmir Valley, […]
Archbishop of Canterbury calls for mandatory reporting of sexual abuse
Source: The Guardian By Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondent The archbishop of Canterbury has thrown his weight behind calls for the government to make the reporting of sexual abuse of children and […]
Catholic Church Offers Cash to Settle Abuse Claims—With a Catch
Source: Wall Street Journal By Ian Lovett SCRANTON, Pa.—Four decades ago, Jimmy Pliska says, he was sexually assaulted by his local parish priest on an overnight fishing trip. Now, he has […]
VA secretary changes rules to allow displaying of religious symbols
Source: CNN Washington (CNN) Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie issued new policies Wednesday allowing religious symbols to be publicly displayed in VA facilities nationwide. “Effective July 3, these changes […]
China Muslims: Xinjiang schools used to separate children from families
Source: BBC News By John Sudworth BBC News, Xinjiang China is deliberately separating Muslim children from their families, faith and language in its far western region of Xinjiang, according to […]
Buddhists Go to Battle: When Nationalism Overrides Pacifism
Source: New York Times By Hannah Beech GINTOTA, Sri Lanka — The Buddhist abbot was sitting cross-legged in his monastery, fulminating against the evils of Islam, when the petrol bomb exploded […]
Mike Pence, Mike Pompeo address Christian pro-Israel summit
Source: Religion News Service BY Jack Jenkins (RNS) — Vice President Mike Pence and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo both addressed a Christian pro-Israel group Monday (July 8), lifting […]
Principal Who Tried to Stay ‘Politically Neutral’ About Holocaust Is Removed
Source: The Washington Post By Sarah Mervosh A high school principal in Florida has been removed from his position over his refusal to state that the Holocaust was a factual […]
