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: Dawn.com The role of the ‘public intellectual’ is in disrepair. In the Arab Spring the revolutions and uprisings were brought about by a new generation of social activists. The surprising thing about the Arab Spring was how the main intellectual class of the Arab World was so severely disconnected […]
The Green Party of the provincial assembly, Hamburg organised a special function on 14th June 2011 at the historic Hamburg Town Hall—the seat of government of Hamburg—under the title “inter-religious dialogue”, in honour of Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad(aba), Khalifatul Masih V, Head of the worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim community,who was invited by the Green Party […]
The future of the Miss Switzerland contest is under threat following low viewer ratings for the televised beauty pageant on Saturday. Just 25.7 per cent of Swiss television viewers tuned in to watch Alina Buchschacher win the Miss Switzerland crown on Saturday night, a ten per cent drop compared with […]
This young Arabian leopard, without the intervention of the Kingdom’s little known but long established wildlife conservation program, would simply not exist. In 2003 one of the Middle East’s rarest predators, the Arabian leopard (Panthera pardus nimr), was almost extinct. The smallest member of the leopard family at only about […]
AMMAN (Jordan Times) – The Department of Antiquities has recovered from Israel hundreds of clay artefacts after 44 years, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported. The agency quoted acting Director General of the General Antiquities Department Fares Hmoud as saying Monday that the 620 artefacts, which date back to the […]
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Source: The Jerusalem Post Author: Melanie Lidman When the Second Temple period scribes wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls on parchment 2,000 years ago and rolled them up in a clay jug in the Qumran caves, they probably weren’t expecting that a curious student in Guangzhou, China would be able to […]
Source/Credit: The Washington Post via AP ISLAMABAD — Police say at least 26 school children and two teachers have been killed in a bus accident in Pakistan. The bus was returning from a school trip to a salt mine popular with tourists when it plunged into a ditch late Monday. […]
By Zubair Khalil Khan Followings are the few excerpts from the news recently appeared in media reports encompassing tense situation which unfortunately has propped up between USA and Pakistan. Few days back, US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta pressurized the Pakistani government to crack down on Haqqani network, saying, “Our biggest […]
The Dead Sea Scrolls are some of the most valuable religious texts known to man. Discovered between 1947 and 1956 at Khirbet Qumran, they form the oldest known versions of Biblical documents and take the form of 972 texts. Their age dates them at somewhere between 150 BCE and 70CE […]
Engineers are conducting the final preparations before launching China’s first space laboratory module at the end of this week at a launch center in northwest China. The unmanned Tiangong-1 module was originally scheduled to be launched into low Earth orbit between Sept. 27 and 30. However, a weather forecast showing […]
China’s richest man is set to join the ruling Communist Party’s Central Committee, media reports say. Read More…
By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev urged to adopt Religion Law BUDAPEST/ASTANA (BosNewsLife)– Lawmakers in Kazakhstan have voted for controversial legislation that Christians and rights activists say will further limit religious freedom in the mainly Muslim Central Asian state. Under the new Religion Law, […]
Source: International Crises Group Baghdad/Washington/Brussels, 26 September 2011: Spreading corruption threatens to undermine the significant progress Iraq has made toward reducing violence and strengthening state institutions. Failing Oversight: Iraqs Unchecked Government, the latest report from the International Crisis Group, examines the steady erosion of the credibility of Prime Minister Nouri […]
Source: CNN Anderson Cooper 360|Added on September 23, 2011 CNN’s Gary Tuchman explores allegations of child abuse at a fundamentalist Baptist school in Indiana. http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/apps/cvp/3.0/swf/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed&videoId=us/2011/09/23/tuchman-ungodly-discipline-part-3.cnn http://edition.cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2011/09/23/tuchman-ungodly-discipline-part-3.cnn
Source: F18News on: 23 September 2011 by Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service <http://www.forum18.org> Two laws imposing severe restrictions on freedom of religion or belief could possibly be adopted by Kazakhstan’s Senate, the upper house of Parliament, as early as next Thursday (29 September). Both laws passed through the […]
Source/Credit: The Express Tribune ABBOTTABAD: It may have been a mere misplaced dot that led to accusations of blasphemy against a Christian eighth-grader, whose miniscule error led to her expulsion from school and uproar amongst local religious leaders. Faryal Bhatti, a student at the Sir Syed Girls High School in Pakistan […]
By ARAB NEWS ‘Diyyah’ represented long-term investment for the benefit of victims’ heirs during the time of the Prophet RIYADH: A Saudi economist has welcomed the recent government decision to raise diyyah (blood money) to SR400,000 for murder and SR300,000 for accidental killings, but warned this alone would not be […]
Jordan Times http://www.jordantimes.com AMMAN (JT) – Somalia’s honorary consul to Jordan, Aref Rteimeh, on Sunday said 10 Jordanian doctors from the private sector will head to Somalia next month as part of the Kingdom’s humanitarian campaign to help the Somalis. He added that the physicians volunteered to provide famine victims […]
By Karin Laub, The Associated Press, Jordan Times. RAMALLAH – With combative speeches at the United Nations, the Palestinian and Israeli leaders have locked themselves into positions that seem to preclude a resumption of peace talks and usher in a season of confrontation over a Palestinian state. Palestinian President Mahmoud […]