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 / Courtesy: Alislam.org Khalifatul Masih V (aba) said in Friday sermon on October 7, 2011: There is an element of opposition within the sphere of Islam as well, which Jamaat Ahmadiyya is also tackling. These are the people who spread the false teachings of Islam attributing them to the holy name of […]
by Alexander Kuenzle, swissinfo.ch Germans often wonder why they are considered arrogant in Switzerland, when they say all they want to do is to express themselves clearly. To help overcome misperceptions, the state-owned power company in canton Bern, BKW, has organised integration courses for the many Germans it has hired […]
SIDON, Lebanon: A senior Hamas official dismissed Friday Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ decision to seek U.N. recognition of a Palestinian state as “a political jump in the air” designed to scupper an inter-Palestinian reconciliation. Mahmoud Zahar, a member of Hamas’ political bureau, spoke to journalists after touring the Palestinian refugee […]
By ARAB NEWS To start with, it is strange to have such a name, Amah, which means ‘slave woman’. Why would anyone call his daughter that? Yet the Arabs at the time used very strange names. Perhaps because of this she was better known by her nickname, ‘Umm Khalid.’ Her […]
By MAAYAN LUBELL | REUTERS ARABNEWS JERUSALEM: In its troubled peace talks with the Palestinians, Israel has demanded that it should be recognized as a Jewish state, but there is deep domestic division on what that means. Yoram Kaniuk, a rambunctious 81-year-old author, was hailed by Israeli secularists this week […]
By MUHAMMAD HUMAIDAN | ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: Makkah Gov. Prince Khaled Al-Faisal, who is also chairman of the Central Haj Committee, will launch this season’s national media campaign to enlighten domestic pilgrims on Haj regulations on Oct. 15. The logo of the campaign, which was first launched in the Haj […]
Credit/Source: The Express Tribune: By: Ajmal Kamal / Published: October 7, 2011 By the time Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi became a prominent active maulvi, Muslim shurafa as a class or a bunch of upper caste groups — both with a religious bent of mind and with a more open worldly outlook — […]
Credit/Source: The Express Tribune: 7 October 2011 (Earthquake 2005) Demonstrators fly a giant kite near the House of Commons in central London, as they mark the anniversary of military intervention in Afghanistan. PHOTO: AFP KABUL: Afghan President Hamid Karzai was in a candid mood ten years after the US launched ground […]
Source / Courtesy: MSN.com Africa’s first democratically elected female president, a Liberian peace activist and a woman who stood up to Yemen’s authoritarian regime won the Nobel Peace Prize Friday for their work to secure women’s rights, which the prize committee described as fundamental to advancing world peace. The 10 million […]
When watching the News on Television or reading the News in the Newspapers we should pay special attention to what is NOT written in the Newspaper. Did you notice what was NOT written in the Newspaper or did NOT come on the TV News when the capital city Tripoli in […]
By BRADLEY KLAPPER BLOOMBERG BUSINESS WEEK SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic The Obama administration warned the U.N. cultural agency to stay out of the question of Palestinian statehood or face the consequences, as American lawmakers were threatening to withhold tens of millions of dollars in U.S. funding if the organization agrees […]
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Just when states thought their tax revenues were finally on the mend… The looming specter of Recession 2.0 has forced several states to lower their estimates for revenue growth this fiscal year, just as many had finally started to see their tax collections rebound. But new […]
Source: Asia times on line. A divisive policy debate pits top US military leaders, Pentagon officials and the Central Intelligence Agency, who want to put priority on pressuring Pakistan to attack Haqqani network forces, against those in the Barack Obama administration who doubt that a military effort could be decisive […]
Source: TOI on Line Having swept aside autocratic regimes in Egypt and Tunisia, broken Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s hold over Libya and increasingly heaped pressure on the incumbent regimes in Yemen and Syria, the pro-democracy revolution of the Arab Spring has marked a political watershed in the Arab world. No longer […]
Source. Times of India LONDON: There is now a fresh name at the top, unseating long-time leader Harvard. California Institute of Technology (Caltech) knocked the famous Massachusetts institution from the summit of the Times Higher Education league table for the first time in eight years, with US schools claiming 75 […]
Source: Wasim Saroya, Ahmadiyya Community Missioanry in Bosnia and Selwenia Warning over Wahhabism, influence of internet and media focus on extremist groups at security and cohesion debate Politicians, think tanks, religious leaders and academics came together for a landmark conference at the European Parliament to highlight the threats posed by […]
Source: Nasim Malik of Sweeden FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-139-2011 October 7, 2011 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission PAKISTAN: The principals of the schools obey the instructions of Mullahs to rusticate the Ahmadi students The government has still not taken any action against the cases of rustication of […]
by Armando Mombelli, swissinfo.ch Swiss senator Dick Marty’s reports into secret CIA prisons and more recently into alleged organ trafficking in Kosovo have caused a stir internationally. In an interview with swissinfo.ch as he prepares to step down from his parliamentary and Council of Europe roles, Marty says that he […]
By AGENCIES ARABNEWS RAMALLAH, West Bank: A senior Palestinian official called Wednesday for the replacement of international Middle East envoy Tony Blair, saying the former British leader is biased in favor of Israel and is “of no use at all.” Mohammed Ishtayeh, a member of the Central Committee of the dominant […]