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
By GALAL FAKKAR | ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: The 2011 Haj and Umrah season has saved more than 3,000 travel and tourist agencies in Egypt from going bankrupt, according to sources involved in Haj and Umrah services in the country. They said the agencies suffered immense financial losses following the Jan. […]
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a document to help and support mankind. And all those countries who have signed this declaration are duty-bound, morally and legally, to abide to all articles, clauses and regulations stipulated in this declaration. The very first article of this declaration speaks that ‘all […]
AMMAN (JT) – Prime Minister Awn Khasawneh and his Cabinet were sworn in on Monday before His Majesty King Abdullah, becoming the 94th government since 1921 and the ninth since the King ascended the Throne in 1999. The Cabinet held its first meeting later yesterday, chaired by the prime minister, […]
And this is what the readers of Jordan Times think about the progress towards reforms: Weekly Poll The government of Awn Khasawneh will make good on its reform promises Absolutely (13 %) To a certain degree (33 %) Never (54 %) Total Votes : 48 (ok, it is still early […]
Debris from Japan’s tsunami approaching Hawaii. (KITV/ABC) Some 5 to 20 million tons of debris–furniture, fishing boats, refrigerators–sucked into the Pacific Ocean in the wake of Japan’s March 11 earthquake and tsunami are moving rapidly across the Pacific. Researchers from the University of Hawaii tracking the wreckage estimate it could […]
Since it’s formation in 2009, the EDL have been highlighting the problem of islamofascism within the UK and the mainstream media are now catching up with them. Channel 4 TV Dispatches goes undercover to investigate muslim teachers who regularly assault young children in the 2,000 Muslim schools in Britain run […]
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Question – It is very important in Islam not to hoard money but to keep it working. How does Islam view placing money on the capitalist stock market system? Answer – The Islamic economic system runs on a different principle and you have to understand that system before you can […]
Hadhrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad, Khalifatul Masih IV. (r.a.) replied this question as follows: Answer – This is a short question which requires a very long answer and I doubt if we have sufficient time in this forum as I cannot devote the entire time to one single question. Although I […]
FOREIGN students caught skipping class or flunking courses are being deported in record numbers, courtesy of a federal government crackdown on student visas. The Immigration Department has already cancelled 15,066 foreign student visas in the past year, a 37 per cent spike from the previous year, The Daily Telegraph reported. About 3624 […]
JULIA Gillard will today appeal for support from Commonwealth nations to heap pressure on Europe to tackle its debt crisis as she seeks to build a consensus for global financial change ahead of next week’s Group of 20 meeting in Cannes. The Prime Minister will use this week’s Commonwealth Heads […]
BRUSSELS — With a new sense of urgency, the leaders of the 27 European Union nations grappled directly on Sunday with their thorniest financial and economic problems, and made progress that they promised could yield a complete package of measures within days. The hope is that the seriousness of the […]
Source/Credit: BBC Each year in Britain a small but growing number of young women are giving up careers, boyfriends and everything they own to devote themselves entirely to God. Catherine describes herself as “a girly girl” who loves to be pampered. She has also wanted to be a nun since […]
Source/Credit: Express Tribune Pakistani journalist and daughter of former Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer, Shehrbano Taseer, received a Human Rights Award during an annual award dinner in New York City on Saturday. In the months since her father’s slaying, Shehrbano has continued to speak out publicly against discriminatory laws that target […]
Source/Credit: Associated Press (AP) ERCIS, Turkey (AP) — Five people were pulled out alive Monday from the rubble in eastern Turkey after a 7.2-magnitude quake leveled buildings and killed some 272 people. Four of them were rescued after one managed to call for help with his cell phone. Dozens of […]
Source/Credit: Aljazeera Dr Neelam Singh is on the front line of India’s battle to save its girls. Modern medical technology – specifically ultrasounds for determining the baby’s sex – coupled with ancient cultural values which give preference to boys, mean that hundreds of thousands of girls are never being born. […]
by Isobel Leybold-Johnson, swissinfo.ch Swiss newspapers have been mulling the consequences of Sunday’s parliamentary polls for the cabinet election in December – and have not made up their minds. A less powerful rightwing Swiss People’s Party – which suffered a big loss – might actually make it more eligible for […]
Until recently I thought that only Christianity had a big problem with enlightenment and science and that I have examined in many of my Google-knols, but, now I am becoming increasingly aware that the medieval Muslim scholars do not fair any better. What do I mean? Firstly, let me address […]
BY COLIN FREEMAN, TELEGRAPH. A populist party is on course to trample over the politics of politiness in Sunday’s election, writes Colin Freeman in Zurich As his two-legged party comrades like to point out, Zottel the goat represents everything that is good about the hard Right in Switzerland. The official […]
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