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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
The Islamic Economic System – by Hadhrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad, Khalifatul Masih IV.
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 […]
Question – Why does Islam forbid the use of interest?
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 […]
Thousands of students failed the Australian visa test
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 enlists Commonwealth leaders to fix Europe
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 […]
European Leaders Deal Directly With Debt Dilemma
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 […]
The growing number of young women becoming nuns
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 […]
Promoting religious tolerance: Shehrbano Taseer receives human rights award
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 […]
5 quake survivors saved from rubble in Turkey
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 […]
Millions of aborted girls imbalance India
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. […]
Switzerland: Media ponders election fallout for cabinet
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 […]
Medieval Muslim scholars making a mockery of the Holy Quran by their ignorance and stubborness
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 […]
Swiss fear avalanche from the Right
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 […]
Babies are smarter than you think
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Clinton warns Tajikistan on stoking radical Islam
By ANDREW QUINN | REUTERS ARABBEWS DUSHANBE: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned Tajikistan on Saturday that efforts to crack down on religious freedom might backfire and increase sympathy for radical views that could threaten stability in the Central Asian country. Clinton, who met Tajik President Imomali Rakhmon on […]
Jordan party rejects offer to join new govt
By ABDUL JALIL MUSTAFA Amman: Jordan’s main opposition group, the Muslim Brotherhood, on Sunday turned down an offer by the Prime Minister-designate Awn Khasawneh to join the new Cabinet, saying the time was “still not ripe” for such a step. The reply came in a letter addressed to Khasawneh by […]
Over 100,000 pilgrims leave for Madinah in convoys Sunday
By BADEA ABU AL-NAJA | ARAB NEWS MAKKAH: On Sunday more than 100,000 pilgrims were sent to Madinah in convoys consisting of 2,600 buses. The South Asian Tawafa Establishment achieved this with the collaboration of the traffic department, the United Car Syndicate responsible for pilgrims’ transportation and transport companies. Close […]
Experts urge Arab countries to exploit solar energy potential
By Hana Namrouqa JORDAN TIMES DEAD SEA – Energy experts on Sunday predicted that solar power will be the most important source of energy in the Middle East within the next decade, calling on regional governments to shift from their reliance on oil to clean, renewable energy resources. Energy drives […]
Argentinian incumbent heads toward re-election
Buenos Aires (CNN) — Dressed in black, evoking her trademark style, Argentinian President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner addressed cheering crowds after preliminary vote counts on Sunday showed her heading toward re-election. “I have come to places in my life I have never thought I’d arrive. The honor of not just […]
In Focus: Rural Women
Key contributors to global economies, rural women play a critical role in both developed and developing nations — they enhance agricultural and rural development, improve food security and can help reduce poverty levels in their communities. In some parts of the world, women represent 70 percent of the agricultural workforce, […]