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
Chinese President Hu Jintao visited grassroots urban and rural areas in Beijing on Sunday, the eve of Spring Festival, extending greetings to the people and celebrating with them Lunar New Year. Hu arrived at the old style Qianmen shopping street, south of the Tiananmen Square, waving hands to the passersby, […]
Transitional council deputy head quits after protests Jordan Times: Agencies | Jan 23,2012 BENGHAZI — The head of Libya’s transitional government on Sunday suspended delegates from Benghazi, the city that […]
India, Mauritius begin talks on revised tax treaty New Delhi: Indian and Mauritian tax officials have begun talks on revising the double taxation avoidance pact between the two countries and the issue is likely to come up for discussion during the upcoming visit of the Prime Minister of Mauritius to […]
The quiet appeal of Mauritius was immediately evident as the plane descended. A verdant gem of just 1,860 sq km, located 800km east of Madagascar amidst the shimmering sapphire waters of the Indian Ocean, it is part of a chain of islands formed during a series of undersea volcanic eruptions […]
Photo taken on Jan. 22, 2012 shows the bird’s-eye view of the Olympic Green in Beijing, capital of China, on the eve before Chinese lunar Year of Dragon. [Photo/Xinhua]
Daily Dawn: KARACHI: Farahnaz Ispahani, media adviser to President Asif Ali Zardari and wife of Pakistan’s former ambassador to the United States, has said that she had fled to the US for fear […]
Courtesy Philippines Daily Inquirer: MANILA, Philippines–The New York-based Human Rights Group on Monday lamented that President Aquino’s valiant promises to stem the rampant violation of human rights have remained just […]
lislamForWest.org is the official website of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community to present Islam to the Christian, agnostic and atheist readers, in a user friendly fashion. In addition to the Homepage, […]
Source / Courtesy: China Daily A province in south China has approved the first registered private think thank to help advise officials on key issues, the People’s Daily reported. The […]
Researchers from Newcastle University have been funded more than $9.3 million by the Wellcome Trust to begin experimenting with a method that could lead to children having DNA from three people to eliminate some genetic disorders. According to the Telegraph, the technique involves removing the nucleus from a donor cell and inserting a […]
Motorhomes have always been a fun way to see the country and take a vacation with the family. However, it seems that there are always drawbacks. While the luxuries on board are amazing for a moving vehicle, they are not close to the same as those found in mansions or […]
LAHORE: The medieval walled city of Lahore is under threat from a construction ‘free-for-all’ ruining centuries of heritage, as an ambitious Pakistani restoration project to protect it stalls. Rapid and illegal growth is crowding out the “old city” —the section of the eastern hub fortified by a wall during the […]
The bedbug plague continues to gain momentum, with New York having been overrun and other cities gradually succumbing. But, at last, there’s hope. It’s not a new insecticide. The new breed of bedbug is now resistant to that. It’s a trap. Read more:
“We are becoming symbiotic with our computer tools, growing into interconnected systems that remember less by knowing information than by knowing where the information can be found.” This sentence comes from the findings of a new study conducted by psychology professors at Columbia University, the University Of Wisconsin-Madison, and Harvard University. Read more:
IBNLive Bangladesh High Commissioner Tareq Karim accused the Bangaldesh Opposition of being involved in the coup attempt against the Sheikh Hasina government.http://ibnlive.com/livetv.
Jews, Christians and Muslims have united in the Holy Land to pray for rain. An unusually dry autumn has left Israel and the Palestinian territories perilously parched. Imams, rabbis and priests […]
Christian Democrats are worried that ‘compassion’ sounds like an anti-government slogan, Trouw reports. The coalition partners are heading for a showdown with Geert Wilders over cutbacks. Health insurance companies have been paying for therapy to ‘cure’ gays. School grades are falling as pushy parents insist their kids should study […]
Courtesy Daily Dawn: ……….This actually shouldn’t come as a surprise in a country where the state has for long been active in defining what or who a ‘Muslim’ is, and that too in a society brimming with various sects and sub-sects. This has left the sects judging one another, sometimes […]
By RIMA AL-MUKHTAR, RIMA.ALMUKHTAR@ARABNEWS.COM Published: Jan 17, 2012 20:36 Updated: Jan 19, 2012 15:38 From my observations, Saudi women are a lot like Latin Americans; they love makeup and colors,” said the Venezuelan fashion designer, Carolina Herrera, after her visit to Jeddah to support breast cancer awareness with Zahra Breast […]
By Zubair Khan ” it does not matter where you come from. As long you are in Ghana we consider you as Ghanaian, we will treat you as Ghanaian and we are proud of it” These were the few strange and astonishing words, which on 18th of January 2012, […]