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 P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR | ARAB NEW JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia sought to discourage Saudis and expatriates from performing pilgrimage this year without valid Haj permits with an intensified public awareness campaign through the media.The country’s grand mufti also said it was unlawful to do Haj without permits. “Helping pilgrims to […]
By Muath Freij AMMAN – Hundreds of Jordanians flocked to Diwan Tamimi in west Amman’s Dahiyat Al Rashid neighbourhood on Wednesday to celebrate the release of Ahlam Tamimi. The 31-year-old was the only Jordanian prisoner among the first group of 477 prisoners released in exchange for the Israeli soldier Gilad […]
Book Review – Letter to a Christian Nation Introduction: Why Sam Harris Wrote Letter to a Christian Nation? In Letter to a Christian nation, Sam Harris makes a sneering, feeble and condescending attempt to demonstrate that religion is an imagination of human mind and the sooner humanity discards it, […]
Age of the Promised Messiah(as) One example of an attempt by the opponents of the Ahmadiyya Jama’ah to discredit Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Al-Qadiani(as) is to purport that he received false, or fabricated, revelations regarding the age of his death. Here the opponents say that whilst the Promised Messiah(as) […]
Source: Guardian Author: David Batty British courts need not abide by the rulings of the European court of human rights, the most senior judge in England and Wales has said. The lord chief justice Lord Judge said courts were not bound by the rulings of the Strasbourg-based court but should always […]
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Source: Nanaimo Daily News. A new national survey that tapped the level of “positiveness” that Canadians feel toward selected groups suggests that Muslims – significantly more than 10 other subsets of society – remain a magnet for negativity a decade after the 9/11 attacks on the U.S. Just 43 per […]
by CLARISSA ROHRBACH The Mahmud Mosque invites on the weekend Swiss of any belief to discover Islam at a lecture at the Zurich Volkshaus. Imam Sadaqat Ahmed explains why this enlightement is necessary. Tagblatt of the City of Zurich: Sadaqat Ahmed, what do you want to achieve with this function? […]
The publication of the Kyoto, Osaka and Kobe guide brings the total of three Michelin star restaurant to 29, four ahead of France. Those of us who have been trying in vain to find a decent restaurant in France for the last ten years will think this tacit acknowledgement […]
SOURCE: IRANIAN PRESS TV A Saudi Arabian mufti has issued a religious degree (fatwa) prohibiting soccer for Muslim youth because it has been invented by Jews, Christians, infidels, the US, Russia, France and their lackeys. Abdullah al-Najdi advised Muslim youth to avoid playing soccer unless under specific conditions, IRNA reported. […]
So said Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, the Founder of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Have you any notion what was the strange event that occurred in the desert country of Arabia when hundreds of thousands of the dead were revived within a brief period and those who had been misguided through generations put on […]
By Rami G. Khouri The Daily Star Lebanon The Middle East continues to experience one of its most tumultuous moments of structural change in several generations, and countries are reconfiguring both their domestic power structures as well as their intra-regional relations. In this context, we can expect much of the […]
Builders began work on more U.S. homes than forecast in September on rising demand for apartments and condominiums as more Americans become renters. Housing starts climbed 15 percent to 658,000 houses at an annual rate, the most since April 2010, Commerce Department figures showed today in Washington. The median forecast […]
During a recent visit to Holland, the world Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, issued a stark warning to Geert Wilders, the farright Dutch politician. He warned Wilders that if he continued to defame Islam and the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) then he and other likeminded individuals would be […]
By MUHAMMAD AL-SULAMI | ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: Three men allegedly belonging to the Turki Al-Dandani terror cell told judges at a criminal court in Riyadh on Monday that preachers who issued takfiri (branding opponents “infidels”) religious edicts and encouraged youths to take part in jihad in Afghanistan should be arrested and brought to […]
AMMAN (Jordan Times) – His Majesty King Abdullah on Tuesday urged the newly appointed General Intelligence Department (GID) Director Major General Feisal Shobaki to implement a development plan that enhances and modernises the department’s performance in protecting the Kingdom. In a letter sent to Shobaki, His Majesty said enhancing the […]
By ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: Maha Mostafa Akeel, managing editor of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Journal, celebrated the release of her first book, “Saudi Women in the Media,” at Jeddah’s Virgin Megastore in Roshana Mall on Tuesday. Maha’s friends, colleagues, relatives and prominent media personalities, including broadcaster and author […]
Source of video / Courtesy: BBC Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times This is an hour and a half movie or documentary about […]
Doha: Yemen’s Nobel Peace Prize winner Tawakul Karman said the UN must act “immediately and decisively” to halt a deadly government crackdown on protesters calling for President Ali Abdullah Saleh to resign. Tawakul urged the United Nations “to take immediate and decisive action to stop the massacres and hold the […]