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
Source: The Record – Religious misconceptions addressed at open house Misconceptions about Islam, some perpetuated by recent events, were addressed at an open house on the Holy Qur’an held at the Fort Saskatchewan Public Library March 17. “The idea started when Pastor Terry Jones burnt the Qur’an,” said Noman Khalil, […]
The Muslim Times Editor for Pakistan Credit: The Horizon March 23, 2012 According to news accounts reported in Pakistan’s Urdu newspaper, Daily Express, an anti-Ahmadiyya conference held in Lahore by Khatima-e Nubuwwat Tahafuz Majlis […]
Express Tribune: Irish actor Liam Neeson has revealed he is considering giving up on his Catholic faith and converting to Islam, The Sun reported on Wednesday. The Hollywood star, 59, having recently filmed in […]
New York Times: Opinionator; Discussions of religion are typically about God. Atheists reject religion because they don’t believe in God; Jews, Christians and Muslims take belief in God as fundamental […]
Dawn.com: YORK: A Pakistani journalist and best-selling author cautions that Pakistan is heading towards anarchy in his new book that offers solutions for his country’s frayed ties with the United […]
Credit: Asia Times: By Chan Akya As the global financial crisis began, I wrote a few articles on the subject of social changes that were in my mind the inevitable consequence of the events. [1] It is now time to consider the next act in the financial crisis, namely the […]
Credit: Asia Times: By Henery Flood. Looted arms and hardened fighters returning from Libya’s internationally backed war fueled the coup d’etat in Mali this week that is threatening stability in the wider Sahara and Sahel regions. The Arab Spring has bled into Western Africa and the mercurial egomaniac who historically […]
Source: China Daily Once again the United States is trying to throw its weight around and impose its unilateral vision on other countries. The US imposed tough new sanctions at the turn of the year, aimed at preventing other countries from importing Iranian oil and conducting transactions with its central […]
France24. AP – In a dramatic end to a 32-hour standoff, a masked French SWAT team slipped into the apartment of an Islamist extremist Thursday, sparking a firefight that ended with the suspect jumping out the window and being shot in the head. Mohamed Merah, 23, was wanted in the deaths […]
Resolution urges Israel to prevent settler violence AFP | Mar 22,2012 | JORDAN TIMES GENEVA — The UN Human Rights Council on Thursday passed a resolution ordering a first probe into how Israeli settlements may be infringing on the rights of the Palestinians. The resolution was adopted by the 47-member […]
By TOM HENEGHAN | REUTERS CAIRO: Al-Azhar, Egypt’s 1,000-year-old seat of Islamic learning, will soon be preaching its doctrines on satellite television, a space it has previously left to Islamist […]
By ABU TARIQ HIJAZI ARABNEWS HIS name shines on the horizon of Madinah. He was the first who offered full hospitality to Holy Prophet (peace and mercy of Allah be upon him) when he arrived in Madinah. Later he proved that he was not only an extraordinary host and a […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit:Dawn.com BY NADEEM F. PARACHA ON MARCH 22ND, 2012 Controversial novelist, author and your mother-in-law trapped in a middle-aged man’s body, Salman Rushdie, announced in London […]
Source: Lloydminster Source – After a campaign where members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Group went door-to-door, dispelling myths about the Islam religion, Lloydminster residents recently had another chance to learn more about the eastern faith. Representatives from the youth group were at the Lloydminster Public Library late Thursday afternoon, […]
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat is pleased to announce that on 18 March 2012, its world leader, Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the Fifth Khalifa of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat, inaugurated the new Baitul Ghafoor Mosque in Halesowen, a town in the West Midlands. Upon arriving at the premises, His Holiness officially […]
Manila – The Philippine government said Thursday it anticipated US help to track a North Korean long-range rocket, part of which is expected to land off the Philippines. “Of course we need the help of the United States to monitor the path because we don’t have that capability,” Defence Secretary […]
Source: The Telegraph A study has found that people who appear to be constantly distracted have more “working memory”, giving them the ability to hold a lot of information in their heads and manipulate it mentally. Children at school need this type of memory on a daily basis for a […]
Source: The Telegraph Although physical quality of life goes down after middle age, mental satisfaction increases. The study of more than 10,000 people in Britain and the US adds support to a previous report that happiness levels form a U-curve, hitting their low point at around 45, then rising. Researchers […]
Source: the Guardian In recent weeks, atheists and agnostics who are friendly towards religion have been filling the column inches. Editors, and perhaps readers, are weary of the so-called militant secularism evangelised by you know who. So kindly non-believers have been commissioned. But there is something paradoxical about their appreciation […]
Source: The Washington Post By Nasim Rehmatullah and Harris Zafar On Monday, March 12th, the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah – Saudi Arabia’s supreme religious […]