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: TOI JERUSALEM: In a controversial move, Israel’s hawkish Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has expressed his support for a proposed law that would ban mosques from using loudspeakers to call people to pray, stressing that “there is no need to be more liberal than Europe”. The law popularly known as the […]
Source: Asia times. Iran is facing ominous rhetoric and deadly explosions as the United States, Israel and Saudi Arabia step up efforts to open Iran’s nuclear facilities to inspection. Tehran is gauging its support from abroad. Syria, a longstanding ally, is in turmoil and Hezbollah in Lebanon would be of […]
Source: Asiatimes. The United States-Pakistan relationship has reached a turning point reminiscent of the run-up to October 1958, when Washington encouraged General Ayub Khan’s coup, apprehending the coming into power of an elected government in Pakistan that might have refused to collaborate as the US’s Cold War ally against the […]
Khalifatul Masih V, International leader of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (Hudhur) quoted from a book by Prof. Laura Veccia Vaglieri, in a recent Friday sermon and highly applauded it. The book is titled, An […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Mohammed Rizwan Published: December 12, 2011 LAHORE: Sloganeering and public rhetoric aside, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf would be willing to partner with the […]
Businessinsider.com: Joe Weisenthal: According to Paul Krugman, Europe is now seeing the logical next step of a continent that’s collapsed into depression: The rise of authoritarianism, fascism, and the hard right wing. One of Hungary’s major parties, Jobbik, is a nightmare out of the 1930s: it’s anti-Roma (Gypsy), it’s anti-Semitic, […]
Asiatimes Online: Atif Mir ……But well-informed circles in the Ministry of Interior claim that the TTP had actually set some pre-requisites to initiate talks with the government, most of which have been accepted in the aftermath of the November 26 NATO air attack on two Pakistani check posts on the […]
By Spencer Wells DNA is more than 99% similar among all humans, so all claims for discrimination, like caste system, polygenetic theory of human origin or some people being the ‘chosen […]
Kazakhstan. President Nursultan Nazarbayev took part in a national teleconference with the presentation of the Industrialization Map projects launched during the second half of 2011 in Astana on December 9 at the Saryarka Republican Track Cycling Centre. Nursultan Nazarbayev launched industrial facilities in the regions via video-conference, including the processing section of the Sokolov-Sarbaiskoye ore-dressing production association in the Kostanay region, the production of […]
Source: Geo TV CHINIOT: Brilliant young girl Sitara Akbar, who is only 11 years old and a resident of Chiniot, set a world record by passing O-level English, Mathmatics and […]
By P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR | ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: The Muslim media should play an important role in spreading the message of Islam, said Muslim World League Secretary-General Abdullah Al-Turki on […]
By ARAB NEWS MAKKAH: More than 7,000 real estate units will be expropriated and demolished in Makkah in 2012 to make way for the expansion of the Grand Mosque and the development of the holy city, Al-Eqtisadiah newspaper reported on Sunday. “About 3,000 of these new units worth more than […]
By Muath Freij JORDAN TIMES AMMAN – Around 200 Syrian protesters tried to storm the Syrian embassy in Amman on Sunday after the embassy detained Syrian citizen Ahmad Shuraiqi as […]
By Brian Murphy JORDAN TIMES DUBAI – About 18 months before the Egyptian uprising that would doom Hosni Mubarak, a US diplomatic cable was sent from Cairo. It described Mubarak as the likely president-for-life and said his regime’s ability to intimidate critics and rig elections was as solid as ever. […]
Source: The New York Times NEW DELHI — To all appearances, the Advanced Medical Research Institute hospital in Kolkata was state of the art. It had some of the latest, most precise radiation therapy equipment for patients in its cancer center. It offered special deluxe suites for its wealthiest […]
Our favorite post: A Moonshot Moment for the Muslims: Making Covid 19 Vaccine before the West and China Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Most […]
As the European debt crisis roils the markets, American traders who once awoke at dawn are now rising in the dead of night to gain an edge when business begins in London, Paris and Frankfurt. Gone are the days when traders showed up to work just before the New York […]
This popular Google-knol was first written in May of 2010. It is one of the four canonical Gospels and is perhaps the most Jewish of all the Gospels with maximum stress on following the Jewish Law. It was written around 80 AD about ten years after the Gospel of Mark. […]
Source: Dawn Author: Sana Saleem Today marks the celebration of human rights around the world, but for us there’s much to mourn and little to celebrate. The scourge of discrimination lies at the root of our most pressing problems, faced with prejudice we fall silent and complacent. In the conclusion of its State […]
Mulla Nasrudin got on a double-decker bus and climbed to the upper deck. A few minutes later, he staggered down the steps, muttering to himself. “Is anything the matter?” asked the driver. “IT AIN’T SAFE UP THERE,” said Nasrudin. “NO DRIVER.” The real Mulla Nasrudin stories are centuries old, therefore […]