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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

Bonn boycott

Source:Dawn.com  THE government’s decision to boycott the Bonn conference next week needs to be carefully parsed. Statements attributed to officials about the boycott did not appear to categorically rule out a last-minute reversal in the Pakistani opinion. It is possible, given the behind-the-scenes lobbying that the announcement will trigger, that […]

Iran delivers major blow to the CIA

Source :Asiatimes on line. By – Mahan Abedin Iran’s claim last week to have arrested 12 spies from the Central Intelligence Agency has been grudgingly confirmed by United States officials, suggesting a major CIA defeat if not a full-blown disaster. ATol sources in Tehran confirm the embarrassing outcome is the […]

Pamela Geller Comes Out Against Kosher Laws

Source/Credit: The Atlantic By Jeffery Goldberg Recently, my arch-nemesis Pamela Geller, who gives the fight against Islamist terrorism a bad name, denounced the good people who bring us Butterball turkeys for allowing their birds to be slaughtered according to Muslim custom. These halal birds, she said, are tortured in the […]

Islam and Human Rights

The Holy Quran, revealed in the desert of Arabia in the seventh century stated that the purpose of defensive warfare is to preserve the sanctity of cloisters, churches, synagogues and mosques. The Quran named the place of worship of the Muslims as the last on this sacred list. In so […]