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
by Stefania Summermatter, swissinfo.ch Switzerland will soon have legislation specifically banning forced marriages, a social issue involving violence and isolation which raises tough questions about the integration of minorities from abroad. Marriage “is not, has never been and cannot be a private matter”, wrote the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss. For centuries, […]
AP | Jul 17, 2012 | JORDAN TIMES OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Middle East peace, America’s defining issue for decades of dealings with Israel and its Arab neighbours, was just a postscript Monday as Hillary Clinton made perhaps her final visit to the region as secretary of state. Three years after […]
by Mohammad Ghazal | Jul 17, 2012 | JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Tkiyet Um Ali will launch a campaign during the holy month of Ramadan, to distribute more than a quarter-of-a-million iftar meals to needy families across Jordan. The charity has already launched a media campaign to solicit donations for […]
Credit: UPI.Com via Wasim Saroya MUNICH, Germany, July 17 (UPI) — A Munich court is denying a divorce for a woman tricked into marriage, saying because she was never legally married, she cannot be legally divorced. Anna K., 31, has been fighting for a divorce from Kulwinder S. since 2008, […]
Fiji: Round-trip airfare from Los Angeles starts at $1049 Los Angeles Times Air Pacific, the official airline of Fiji , is offering airfares starting at $1049 round-trip from Los Angeles to Nadi on the South Pacific nation’s main island Viti Levu. Though the deal is on until the end of the month, […]
US should pressure nations to rescind anti-Ahmadiyya laws By Katrina Lantos Swett, chair, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) – 07/16/12 04:59 PM ET http://platform.twitter.com/widgets/tweet_button.1340179658.html#_=1342569769945&count=horizontal&id=twitter-widget-0&lang=en&original_referer=http%3A%2F%2Fthehill.com%2Fblogs%2Fcongress-blog%2Fforeign-policy%2F238199-us-should-pressure-nations-to-rescind-anti-ahmadiyya-laws&size=m&text=US%20should%20pressure%20nations%20to%20rescind%20anti-Ahmadiyya%20laws%20-%20The%20Hill's%20Congress%20Blog&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthehill.com%2Fblogs%2Fcongress-blog%2Fforeign-policy%2F238199-us-should-pressure-nations-to-rescind-anti-ahmadiyya-laws http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?api_key=369058349794205&channel_url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.ak.facebook.com%2Fconnect%2Fxd_arbiter.php%3Fversion%3D9%23cb%3Df4cd998b4%26origin%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fthehill.com%252Ffb1760c2%26domain%3Dthehill.com%26relation%3Dparent.parent&extended_social_context=false&href=http%3A%2F%2Fthehill.com%2Fblogs%2Fcongress-blog%2Fforeign-policy%2F238199-us-should-pressure-nations-to-rescind-anti-ahmadiyya-laws&layout=button_count&locale=en_US&node_type=link&sdk=joey&send=true&show_faces=false&width=150 https://plusone.google.com/_/+1/fastbutton?bsv=pr&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthehill.com%2Fblogs%2Fcongress-blog%2Fforeign-policy%2F238199-us-should-pressure-nations-to-rescind-anti-ahmadiyya-laws&size=medium&count=true&origin=http%3A%2F%2Fthehill.com&hl=en-US&jsh=m%3B%2F_%2Fapps-static%2F_%2Fjs%2Fgapi%2F__features__%2Frt%3Dj%2Fver%3DsosyIBURzJA.en_US.%2Fsv%3D1%2Fam%3D!V1HSHW0XVB-YepGbpQ%2Fd%3D1%2Frs%3DAItRSTMF2xh6Sr_jc__pdLpN7VOIRO3bPg#_methods=onPlusOne%2C_ready%2C_close%2C_open%2C_resizeMe%2C_renderstart&id=I0_1342569770450&parent=http%3A%2F%2Fthehill.com On June 27, along with members of Congress and other guests, I heard a message of peace and freedom from the Ahmadiyya world leader, […]
Global Post: The United States is suffering its widest drought since 1956, according to data released by theNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. NOAA reported on Monday that by the end […]
In what was possibly the first protest of its kind, a religious organisation was met with aerial firing by the police in Karachi, when they gathered to demonstrate against the […]
Credit: Asiatimes: Muslim men, the story goes, are running around seducing girls of the Hindu and other faiths for the sole purpose of converting them to Islam, and (some add) using their wombs to create yet more Muslims and alter India’s overwhelmingly Hindu demographic. The tale – discredited by police […]
(Reuters) – The Federal Reserve stands ready to offer additional monetary support to a U.S. economy that has slowed significantly in recent months, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke told lawmakers on Tuesday. He told the Senate Banking Committee the recovery was being held back by tighter financial conditions due to Europe’s […]
Credit: Asiatimes. Syrian rebels point to high-profile defections, heightened violence in Damascus and revelations of another “civilian massacre” as signs of a turning point in the uprising – even as insurgents flee fighting in the capital and evidence from the Hama killings suggest they simply resulted from another uneven clash […]
By Zubair Khan Few days back shock waves were sent amongst Jewish and Muslim communities of Germany, when ruling, in the case of a Muslim boy taken to a doctor with bleeding after circumcision, the Cologne court said the practice inflicts bodily harm and should not be carried out on […]
28 March 2007 | Paris/Geneva – In response to the urgent need to reduce the number of new HIV infections globally, WHO and the UNAIDS Secretariat convened an international expert consultation to determine whether male circumcision should be recommended for the prevention of HIV infection. Based on the evidence presented, […]
At a time characterized by an alleged increase in the radicalization of Muslim youth, I attended a national Muslim youth convention with the theme, “Love and loyalty for one’s homeland.” The national convention — organized by America’s leading Muslim youth organization, MKA USA — sought to educate and cultivate loyalty […]
Credit: Sami Khokhar of Hamburg-Germany By Zubair Khan As many readers of Muslim Times know, few days back shock waves were sent amongst Jewish and Muslim communities of Germany when the Cologne court ruling said religious circumcision of male infants was tantamount to grievous bodily harm, a criminal act subject […]
The German government says Jewish and Muslim communities should be able to continue the practice of circumcision, after a regional court ruled it amounted to bodily harm. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s […]
Source: HUFFPOST RELIGION Rev. Pat Robertson weighed into the fraught world of interfaith marriage with some advice for a Christian fellow who plans to marry his Muslim girlfriend. “I’ve been with my girlfriend for three years and we’re planning on getting married,” writes Brad in the friendly Q&A section of […]
Riyadh: Arab News Tuesday 17 July 2012 The countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have a low population compared with other regions, totaling 45 million people in 2011, less […]
AMMAN — Jordan is bracing for the potential influx of “hundreds of thousands” of Syrians, officials say, amid an ongoing refugee flow averaging some 500 persons per day. According to a government source, officials are preparing for the potential arrival of up to one million Syrians as part of several […]
Source: ARABNEWS