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/Credit: The Malta Independent 05 August, 2011: Consider “the long war,” a bold concept embraced a few years ago to describe the continuing struggle against terrorism, the grudging progress that could realistically be achieved, and the enormous financial burden that it would impose for years to come. It was also […]
This short article is no longer available on the Guardian UK website, so I am reproducing it here for the benefit of the posterity. After the Pope made some irresponsible remarks about Islam, Karen Armstrong wrote a short article for the British newspaper, the Guardian, on 18th September 2006 titled, […]
Ralph Nader, the consumer advocate and perennial third-party presidential candidate, announced last month that he would work to find a Democrat to challenge President Barack Obama in 2012. Nader now says that a primary challenge is a near certainty. “What [Obama] did this week is just going to energize that […]
Source: Jakarta Globe In the latest wave of international condemnation over the ‘lenient sentences’ handed out to a extremist mob, British MPs are calling for Indonesia to uphold human rights and squash religious intolerance. British MP Siobhain Mcdonagh, who is also chair of the UK All Party Parliamentary Group for […]
Credit / Courtesy: Dawn.com By Nilofar Ahmed JUST as there is a growing global demand for enlightening modern commentaries of the Quran, there is a persisting dearth of exegetical scholarship, even as the overall body of literature on Islam increases. In this scenario, it is rewarding to look at Imam […]
Epigraph: From that time on Jesus began to preach, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.” (Matthew 4:17) Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the […]
Source: Dawn On 28 May 2010, two Ahmadi “places of worship” were attacked simultaneously during Friday prayers in Lahore. As the siege went on for hours, news channels across the board were strewn with live footage from the scene of attack. For the first time in Pakistani history, Ahmadi community, […]
Very interesting documentary. First episode: Kingdom of David: Rivers of Babylon: http://video.pbs.org/video/1354541084/ Watch all four parts in Youtube Wikipedia has a page about the Documentary: Kingdom of David was a part of the Empire Series of history documentaries for the [Public Broadcasting Service] (PBS) Public television stations produced by Oregon […]
Credit/Source: The Times of Malta: Wednesday, August 3, 2011 Two priests have been sentenced to six years and five years, respectively, after being convicted of sexually abusing boys at St Joseph Home in Hamrun. They have given notice of appeal. Fr Charles Pulis was sentenced to six years in jail after nine cases […]
Source: The Times of Malta: Wednesday, August 3, 2011 , by Louise Cilia The message the letter by Fr Renè Camilleri (July 23) titled Country (And Church) That Never Grow Up conveys is of topical interest to us in Malta, especially in the light of the recent divorce referendum result. Fr […]
Source/Credit: The Times of Malta: Wednesday, August 3, 2011 , by Dominique Moisi Japan in March 2011 and Norway in July 2011: any comparison between the madness of nature and the pure madness of man in Norway may sound artificial. Yet, confronted with their respective tragedies, Japan and Norway displayed a […]
Credit/Source: The Times of Malta: August 03, 2011 An Italian parliamentary commission yesterday approved a draft law banning women from wearing veils that cover their faces in public. The draft passed by the constitutional affairs commission would prohibit women from wearing a burka, naqib or any other garb that covers […]
God on Trial is a movie and a World War II drama about a group of Auschwitz prisoners who decide to put God on trial. The tale is based on anecdotal reports of an actual band of concentration camp inmates who convened a rabbinical court to determine how such evil could […]
ABU DHABI — Muslim Americans are the staunchest opponents of military attacks on civilians, compared with members of other major religious groups Gallup has studied in the United States. Seventy-eight percent of Muslim Americans say military attacks on civilians are never justified. These findings are among the many featured in […]
As the negotiations about the debt ceiling in USA run the final lap, many important long term issues remain unanswered. The Western economic system has yielded wonderful results in developing science and technology in the last two to three centuries. However, in the last few years, some of its vulnerabilities are being exposed. No economist can […]
Courtesy: China Daily Wind turbines and solar panels near Dafeng Harbor in East China’s Jiangsu province on August 1, 2011. The base is China’s biggest wind-light power plant, equipped with 174 wind turbines and 480,000 solar panels, which had generated 784 million kWh of power as of this July. The power […]
Source / Credit: CNN (CNN) — The Dawn spacecraft mission could answer some of the big questions about the Big Bang, NASA scientists said Monday as they released the latest images from the mission. Carrying innovative new instrumentation from the Italian and German space agencies, Dawn is providing unprecedented images […]
Washington (CNN) — U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords returned to the floor of the House of Representatives Monday evening for the first time since she was grievously wounded during a January assassination attempt. Giffords, D-Arizona, was met by thunderous applause from colleagues as she walked into the chamber to support a […]
(Mashable) — Foxconn, a company that manufacturers parts used in Apple’s iPhone and iPad, said it aims to replace workers with 1 million robots in the next three years, Xinhuanet reports. The robots will be assigned simple tasks currently done by human workers, such as welding and assembling parts. Foxconn currently has 10,000 […]
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