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
Credit: Spiegel Germany By Barbara Hans dapd “Die Tageszeitung,” the only German paper currently giving women a voice. German newspapers are full of clever commentaries, artful rhetoric and ideas. But an evaluation of national papers shows that editorials are almost always written by men. As the business gender quota debate rages […]
By Brian McCartan Myanmar’s highly anticipated by-elections, held on April 1 for some 45 parliamentary seats, has borne its first diplomatic fruit. The United States announced a relaxation of certain economic sanctions and movement on the resumption of full diplomatic relations with Naypyidaw in reward for the country’s recent democratic […]
Credit: Asia Time: The United States has placed a bounty of US$10 million on the head of Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, accused by Delhi of masterminding the militant mayhem in the Indian city of Mumbai in 2008. The action has surprised Pakistan, where Saeed lives openly, and casts a shadow over moves for […]
mta.tv: Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the Fifth Divinely blessed and elected Successor of Promised Messiah and Mehdi talks to Urdu media in UK. He sheds light on many contemporary and important […]
Source: TOI: Experience it to know, says ACHARYA MAHAPRAJNA Truth is eternal. The one who sees truth does not create it; he only explains it. Mahavira was not the founder of truth; he expressed it, he elaborated on it. With long years of penance, he was able to […]
Washington Post: By Marta Zaraska, Published: The happier you are, the better, right? Not necessarily. Studies show that there is a darker side to feeling good and that the pursuit of happiness can […]
Pakistan continues to slide down on both domestic and international front. Domestically the fight between state institutions, the tensions between the predominant Punabi establishment and the smaller ethnically oriented provinces […]
Source: by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya – http://www.globalresearch.ca “Hegemony is as old as Mankind…” -Zbigniew Brzezinski, former U.S. National Security Advisor The term “New Middle East” was introduced to the world […]
A Swiss man who walked from Hokkaido to Kagoshima Prefecture on foot in five months to dispel fears of radiation in the country among people overseas is receiving worldwide attention. Thomas Kohler, 44, worked at a travel agency in Zurich before the accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power […]
Manama: Most Arabs believe women will be better off in post-revolutionary countries where political Islam is on the rise, an opinion poll indicates. According to the Doha Debates poll, 75 per cent of the respondents believed women’s prospects would be brighter as the quality of life would improve and women, […]
Please permit me to reproduce here a letter to the editor of the Gulf News of 5th April 2012: A heroic effort I was driving back to Abu Dhabi from Dubai the other night on Shaikh Zayed Road when I saw a van losing control. It skidded across the lanes […]
By ASSOCIATED PRESS ARAB NEWS THE HAGUE, Netherlands: The International Criminal Court has told Libyan authorities to surrender former dictator Muammar Qaddafi’s son — wanted by the permanent tribunal for […]
Reuters | Apr 04,2012 | JORDAN TIMES BERLIN — Nobel Prize-winning German writer Guenter Grass has attacked Israel as a threat to world peace and said it must not be […]
Russian TV; The ICC has refused Palestine’s bid for an investigation into the Israeli military offensive on the Gaza strip on the basis that Palestine is not a recognized state. […]
Inquirer News Rosali Mosende has spent all of her 18 years growing up on Paterno Street in Manila’s Quiapo district. It has been a life of hard knocks. Her family has no house, just a lean-to on the sidewalk. A high school student, she studies her lessons at night under […]
I just read an inspirational news in the Huffington Post, One Million Hijabs For Shaima Alawadi: Women Wear Hijabs In Support Of Slain Iraqi Woman, and that gave me an […]
ScienceDaily (Apr. 3, 2012) — A study of the sexes reveals that when it comes to starting a business, women are more likely than men to consider individual responsibility and use business as a vehicle for social and environmental change. “We found that women are 1.17 times more likely than men […]
Huff Post April 4 is the 44th anniversary of the martyrdom of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This week is Holy Week. So what do Trayvon Martin, Dr. King and Jesus have in common? No, this question isn’t the beginning of a bad joke — the answer is […]
Huff Post Religion ALMATY, Kazakhstan — Muslims in the Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan are up in arms at a vodka producer for including the word “Allah” on its liquor bottles. Privately owned Channel 31 cited Bekzat Boranbaiuly, head imam at a mosque in the city of Semey, as saying […]
Review of Religion has published its March 2012 volume on this theme. Here is the Editorial: The person of Christ is not only important to Christians, but is also significant […]