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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

US and Islamists: It takes two to tango

Source: Times of India When Libya’s interim government announced the official ” liberation” of the country on October 23, it also declared that a system based on the Islamic sharia, including polygamy, will replace the dictatorship that Col Muammar Qaddafi ran for 42 years. “We as a Muslim nation have […]

Watching horror movies good for brain

Source: Times of India Horror movies are good for mental health (Thinkstock photos/Getty Images) Scared of watching horror flicks? Well, its bad news for the ladies who are wary of watching such movies. Excuses for not watching the movies will not work anymore. Studies have shown that horror movies can […]

Abbas: Arabs erred on 1947 partition

By AMY TEIBEL | AP ARAB NEWS JERUSALEM: The Palestinian president, in a remarkable assessment delivered on Israeli TV, has said the Arab world erred in rejecting the United Nations’ 1947 plan to partition Palestine into a Palestinian and a Jewish state. The Palestinian and Arab refusal to accept a […]