Polygamous family launches challenge of Utah law
SALT LAKE CITY – Reality TV stars Kody Brown and his four wives say they just want one thing: to be left alone. As authorities investigate them for bigamy, the […]
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Zia H Shah
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
Book of the week: Connivance by Silence
This book covers several themes and many messages to different groups of Muslims around the world. The underlying message is that under a defeatist mindset, Muslim scholars adopted politically expedient […]
Finnish search for Arab art and culture
By GHAZANFAR ALI KHAN I ARAB NEWS RIYADH: About 4,500 kilometers away from Saudi Arabia, a small country tucked away in an isolated Arctic corner of Europe with fewer than […]
Hafiz program: Women are major beneficiaries
By DIANA AL-JASSEM | ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: With the implementation of the first phase of the Hafiz unemployment program on Dec. 31, 700,000 Saudis will start receiving their monthly allowance. Reports issued by the Ministry of Labor confirm that the list consists of 560,000 Saudi women against 140,000 Saudi men, […]
Iraq is neither sovereign nor stable
by Michael Jansen It is hardly surprising that the pullout of the last US combat troops in Iraq coincided with the collapse of the fragile “unity” deal between Shiite and Sunni politicians. The Shiite fundamentalist and Sunni/secular camps have been engaged in a bitter power struggle ever since the 2010 […]
Latin patriarch eyes ‘unified’ Easter in Christmas address
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Christians in the Holy Land are hoping to agree on joint date to celebrate Easter, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem said on Wednesday in his traditional Christmas address. “We intend to unify the date of Easter,” Fuad Twal, the top Roman Catholic cleric in the Holy Land, […]
Finding a new role for churches: Need for a new message
Reuters:John Lloyd ……….This “hunger to be more serious” is acute now, in Christmas week, when, in the countries of long Christian tradition, the broadcast air is replete with carols, sacred music and invocations to rejoice in a miracle birth. It is a hunger which also contains something of a languorous […]
US Asks Journals to Censor Articles on Flu Virus: Preparations for the next war
CNBC: In the experiments, conducted in the United States and the Netherlands, scientists created a highly transmissible form of a deadly flu virus that does not normally spread from person to person. It was an ominous step, because easy transmission can lead the virus to spread all over the world. […]
Texas doctors to operate on girl burned in U.S. drone strike
(CNN) — She has eyelashes but no eyebrows. She has all her fingers but is missing four nails. Her skin is so taut now that she can no longer frown. But she can still smile. Her face tells a story of suffering. Her name, Shakira, tells a story of a […]
If life has a purpose and the Bible is not reliable word of God then the Quran is for you!
This article is to collect different debates between Christians and atheists and to catalog the limitations of both in different debates. Idea is to create Islam as a clear third choice for my readers in the West, Islam as presented by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. Often the limitations of atheism […]
Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earliest Christianity
This is a very useful book by Walter Bauer originally written in German and translated in English in 1970s. It clarifies the Catholic Church’s propaganda about the early history of Christianity. Some reviews The Reception of Walter Bauer’s “Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earliest Christianity” during the Last Decade Daniel J. […]
The Gospel of Mark: in Search of an Ending!
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times When believing Christians look at any information with the assumption that Jesus died for their sins on the […]
We must stop this culture of gender violence
Courtesy: Straight.com November 29, 2011 Catherine Murray and Jen Marchbank Remember Canada’s fallen women next Tuesday. Despite our peaceable self image, Canada has been home to femicide, appalling massacres, and serial killers. December 6 is the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women in Canada. But unlike […]
Bangladesh wrestles with trials from ’71 war
Courtesy: Associated Press By JULHAS ALAM – DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — It should have been like any other morning. But March 26, 1971, was the first full day of a war that would tear apart the region then called East Pakistan. When the fighting ended nine months later, as many […]
There has been a sharp rise in demolitions of Palestinian homes in 2011 © Amnesty International
Record Number of Palestinians Displaced by Unlawful Demolitions Amnesty International, one member of a 20 member strong coalition of major international humanitarian and human rights organizations that work in Israel […]
Bangladesh on its 40th Anniversary – The Takeaway
Courtesy: thetakeaway.org, mumbaimirror.org, amnistyusa.org http://www.thetakeaway.org/media/audioplayer/takeaway_player.swf// < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ // On Friday, Bangladesh marks its 40th anniversary. The Takeaway spends a few minutes on one American hero tied to this anniversary, a former U.S. diplomat who served in what was then known as East […]
ECB announces $643 billion loan program
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — The European Central Bank on Wednesday announced strong demand for a key bank lending program meant to address the eurozone debt crisis. The ECB allotted €489.19 billion ($643.18 billion) in the first batch of its 3-year loan program — more than investors expected. The loans will […]
Memogate case: Kayani submits rejoinder, says Haqqani sent memo
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune Published: December 21, 2011 ISLAMABAD: Army chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani on Wednesday said in his rejoinder to the Supreme Court that […]
Elephant calf with damaged trunk being treated at OUAT
Bhubaneswar, 20th December A male elephant calf rescued from the Betanti range from the forest of Sahitpur was brought to Orissa University of Agriculture & Technology(OUAT). Trunk is one of the vital organ in an elephant’s body. It is same as fingers are for humans and apes. Damages in the […]