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: Qantara Islamic theology is still a very new academic discipline at German universities. It is hoped that a new nationwide post-graduate programme will boost its development, lead to increased representation […]
Iran erupted in a fresh frenzy of animosity towards its old imperial foe on Sunday as MPs chanting “death to England” voted to expel Britain’s ambassador to Tehran and threatened […]
Vladimir Putin, the Russian prime minister, reached back to the rhetoric of the Cold War on Sunday to angrily accuse the West of trying to meddle in his country’s forthcoming elections. Speaking ahead of a parliamentary vote this weekend that his party is expected to win, the country’s de facto […]
Manama Kuwaiti doctors who wear headscarves should not be sent to France for training in local hospitals, the cultural attache in Paris has recommended. Read more
Opposition leader Khaled Khoja tells our writer in Istanbul why revenge is not on the table “If Bashar al-Assad is caught in Damascus, he will not be treated like Gaddafi. But what if he was caught in Homs? We don’t want Mr Bashar al-Assad to face this end. But, as […]
Source: http://www.patrickseale.com Syria is heading for a bloody sectarian civil war. The mutual kidnappings, torture, beheadings and displacement of populations taking place between the Sunni and Alawi communities in the central city of Homs — often described as “the capital of the revolution” — send a fearsome signal of what […]
Souad Mekhennet and Maia de la Baume, The Sydney Morning Herald RABAT, Morocco: A moderate Islamist party appears to have won parliamentary elections in Morocco, the second time in weeks […]
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Preliminary reports for Black Friday indicate that retailers may have seen their strongest sales ever during the all-important kick-off to the holiday shopping season. Retail sales on Black Friday climbed 6.6% this year to an estimated $11.4 billion, according to ShopperTrak, which tracks foot traffic at […]
By Associated Press, Washington Post BEIRUT — The Arab League overwhelmingly approved sanctions Sunday against Syria to pressure Damascus to end its deadly eight-month crackdown on dissent, an unprecedented move by the League against an Arab state. Before the vote, Damascus slammed the vote as a betrayal of Arab solidarity. […]
Muslim students, including trainee doctors on one of Britain’s leading medical courses, are walking out of lectures on evolution claiming it conflicts with creationist ideas established in the Koran. Professors at University College London have expressed concern over the increasing number of biology students boycotting lectures on Darwinist […]
This is a short article to introduce the subject to fellow Christians. The Holy Quran says about them: And thou shalt assuredly find those who say, ‘We are Christians,’ to be the nearest of them in love to the believers. That is because amongst them are savants and monks and […]
STANBUL—A Turkish newspaper’s front-page photograph of a woman with a knife sticking out of her naked back after her husband allegedly stabbed her has triggered controversy, in a nation dogged by high levels of domestic violence and so-called honor killings. Enlarge Image Agence France-Presse / Getty ImagesProtesters in Ankara in […]
At least one out of every three women around the world has been beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise abused in her lifetime – with the abuser usually someone known to her. Read more
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times This is a short article to introduce the subject to fellow Christians. The Holy Quran says about […]
A generation ago, most people outside of evangelical Christian circles had never heard of things like “megachurches” or “the Rapture”, but now even people living in the most secularist urban […]
(Reuters) – Philippine police and the FBI have arrested four people that Manila said were paid by a militant Saudi Arabian-based group to hack into U.S. telecom AT&T’s system, but the company said it was neither targeted nor breached. The Philippines’ Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) said those arrested […]
ISLAMABAD: A bit of good news for the energy-starved nation — the state-run Oil and Gas Development Company Limited (OGDCL) is reported to have made a major gas discovery in Zin block in Balochistan’s restive Marri-Bugti area that has the potential to change the dimension of the country’s power sector. […]
by Urs Geiser, swissinfo.ch The justice ministry appears to have some way to go to win support for its proposals aimed at boosting integration of foreigners. The increased role of […]
By MD HUMAIDAN | ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: The Haj Ministry has started preparations for the Umrah season in 2012 in advance, even before the Haj pilgrims of 2011 have left Makkah and Madinah. The first step in the preparations to welcome the new season is to evaluate the performance of […]