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
Female doctors who have laid siege to the male bastion of the medical profession are poised to overtake their male counterparts in what a medical journal describes as a “giant leap for womankind”. Women have outnumbered men in medical schools for a decade and are set to become a majority […]
A great number of those who grew up under Christianity are living under a broken cross and taking on agnostic or atheistic point of view. Unfortunately, given the Islamophobia in the […]
One of the ills of democracy is that decision making is driven by the opinions of the majority – those who may not be well equipped in the art of running the government. If we could overcome this, we could enjoy all the joys of democracy and avoid all the […]
Libya has announced the lineup for a transitional government that will draft a constitution and prepare the country for elections, trying to ensure that the demands of regional and political […]
Napoleon Bonaparte, Margaret Thatcher, Leonardo da Vinci … history is full of names of famous figures who accomplished historical feats on reportedly few hours of sleep. Now, new research suggests they may […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Was he a monotheist, deist, pantheist, or an atheist? How did his religion affect his science? Agnostics, atheists and pantheists, all equally claim that Einstein belongs to them. But, as he belonged to Jewish background, Abrahamic traditions […]
By Gyan Basnet. Courtesy Asia Times Online. The United Nations was founded in 1945 in order to replace the League of Nations and in so doing to bring about a new world order. Today the organization’s structure still reflects the circumstances pertaining at the time of its founding, but in the meantime […]
I was very happy to see the rescue of the 33 miners in Chile, in October of 2010, after an ordeal of more than two months. I noted all the […]
A record-breaking some 11,000 people filled the streets from San Anton to Valletta in the third – and biggest – the yearly President’s Charity Fun Run for Istrina that took […]
by Khalid Ahmed- Express Tribune; There is little consciousness of ethic in us because of the way we understand our religion. It deals with piety through worship. Once attained, piety is supposed to ensure ethical conduct. Therefore, religiosity is what we emphasise and practise it to make others believe that […]
By NAWAR FAKHRY EZZI What if there were a society where all people are in black and white with everyone murmuring the same prayers and leading the same way of life? For some people, this would be a dream come true. They believe that there is only one “true” path […]
By Taylor Luck AMMAN – Global and regional politics are not yet ripe for a Palestinian state, according to Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, as leadership in Ramallah eyes a less than certain future. The Palestinian premier, a champion of institution-building as a path to statehood, said the current political […]
A team of scientists from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) and CellThera, a private company located in WPI’s Life Sciences and Bioengineering Center, have regenerated functional muscle tissue in mice, opening […]
The basic premise on which we won ourselves Pakistan was that a permanent majority cannot and should not dominate a permanent minority on account of numeric strength. Yet contrary to that founding logic, Pakistan is today legally a totalitarian fundamentalist theocracy A fresh round of hate has been unleashed against […]
Evolutionary psychologists suspect that prejudice is rooted in survival: Our distant ancestors had to avoid outsiders who might have carried disease. Research still shows that when people feel vulnerable to illness, they exhibit more bias toward stigmatized groups. But a new study inPsychological Science, a journal published by the Association for […]
ScienceDaily (Dec. 1, 2011) — Though paper wasps have brains less than a millionth the size of humans’, they have evolved specialized face-learning abilities analogous to the system used by humans, according to a University of Michigan evolutionary biologist and one of her graduate students. “Wasps and humans have independently evolved […]
NEW YORK, Dec. 1, 2011 (Reuters) — Men may be helping more in the home but working women still do more multitasking in U.S. families than their partners and are finding it stressful, according to a new study. Whether it is housework, cooking or childcare, women do about 10 hours more […]
Science Daily (Dec. 2, 2011) — “Face recognition is an important social skill, but not all of us are equally good at it,” says Beijing Normal University cognitive psychologist Jia Liu. But what accounts for the difference? A new study by Liu and colleagues Ruosi Wang, Jingguang Li, Huizhen Fang, and […]
ScienceDaily (Dec. 1, 2011) — Some atheist scientists with children embrace religious traditions for social and personal reasons, according to research from Rice University and the University at Buffalo — The State University of New York (SUNY). The study also found that some atheist scientists want their children to know about […]
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