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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
Dengue alert: Punjab govt closes schools for 10 days
LAHORE: In a bid to curb dengue in the province, the Punjab government on Tuesday announced the closure of all education institutions in Lahore for 10 days. The number of dengue cases is increasing rapidly on a daily basis in Punjab. The decision will be effective from tomorrow (Wednesday). According to […]
Facebook / FaceGlat: Can social media be made kosher or halal?
By Jessica Ravitz, CNN Showing that modernity might, just might, find its place even in a world predisposed to the most traditional of customs, in walks FaceGlat: an ultra-Orthodox Jewish answer, at least for some, to Facebook. Among the most conservative of Orthodox Jews, often referred to as Haredi Jews, modesty reigns. […]
Taliban target US embassy, Nato HQ in Kabul
Source: Times of India Multiple blasts rock Kabul See photo KABUL: The Taliban launched an attack on the centre of the Afghan capital on Tuesday, hitting Nato’s coalition force headquarters next to the US embassy in Kabul. The insurgent group said the ongoing assault in Kabul began with […]
MPs to boycott Pope’s Bundestag speech
Source: The Local As preparations are finalised for Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to Germany at the end of the month, a number of MPs have declared they will boycott his speech to parliament. Around half the members of the Bundestag from the socialist Left party will leave the German parliament […]
Mass arrests in China illegal ‘gutter oil’ police sting
Police in China have arrested 32 people in an operation to prevent the sale of illegally reprocessed cooking oil. More than 100 tonnes of oil were seized in raids across 14 provinces. Some of it had been collected from drains behind restaurants to be sold on. Read More…
Italian government ‘in bond buying talks with China’
China’s largest sovereign wealth fund is considering buying Italian assets, according to reports in the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal. China Investment Corporation (CIC) and Italian officials have held meetings in the last month, the reports said. CIC is wholly owned by the Chinese government and has an estimated […]
A call to action to the OIC
By REEM AL-HAKEEM, ARABNEWS It can be an effective instrument of peace and economic development Carnage and turmoil in some Arab countries, famine in Somalia, Gazans under siege and Al-Quds under threat from Israel, terrorist bombings in Pakistan and Afghanistan, natural disasters in Indonesia, poverty and power struggle in some African […]
New study addresses situation of irregular migrant workers
By Hani Hazaimeh Jordan Times AMMAN – The situation of irregular migrant workers in the Kingdom has become a major concern for human rights activists in light of ongoing violations of their rights, according to a report issued on Monday. Prepared by the Tamkeen Centre for Legal Assistance, “Breaking the […]
Democracy and Arab Spring: Democracy a Role Model for the Arab world!
By: Laiq Ahmed Atif, president Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Malta “Government of the people, by the people, for the people” these are the words of US president Abraham Lincoln to define democracy. The term democracy comes from the Greek language and means “rule by the (simple) people”. Philosophers have defined the […]
Palestinian state a priority for Jordan – King
AMMAN (Jordan Times) – His Majesty King Abdullah on Monday reiterated that resolving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict on the basis of the two-state solution is the path to achieve peace and stability in the Middle East. During a meeting with international Quartet for Mideast peace representative Tony Blair, the two sides discussed […]
Obama poised to break Iraq pullout promise (Salon.com)
Source: Salon.com The president promised early on to withdraw all U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of 2011. What changed? By Justin Elliott 12 Sep 2011 — A debate is unfolding in official Washington about whether the Obama administration should leave any troops in Iraq, and, if so, how […]
Maliki believes Saudis are main sponsors of terrorism in Iraq: WikiLeaks (Tehran Times)
Source: Wikileaks – Tehran Times. TEHRAN, 12 Sep 2011 – Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has reportedly said that Saudi Arabia is main sponsor of terrorism in Iraq, alleging that the U.S.-backed monarchy intends to stoke a civil war in the Middle Eastern country. Newly released classified U.S. diplomatic cables […]
Holy Qur’an Open House in Kingston
Credit:THE WHIG-STANDARD As he travels across the province, Saadat Ahmed says the people he sees are more curious than anything else. “A lot of people don’t know anything about the Qur’an,” said Ahmed, a member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community that is travelling across the country to promote awareness of […]
Aspects of the Islamic Faith 115: Personal attitude to debt
By ADIL SALAHI ARABNEWS Debt is a normal practice in human life. People often have need for money that they do not have. If they expect to have money at a later time and their need is immediate, they try to borrow from a friend or a financial institution. In […]
Explosion at French nuclear site kills one
Source: Times of India MARSEILLE (FRANCE): A furnace exploded at the Marcoule nuclear waste treatment site in southern France on Monday, killing one person, but there was no leak of radioactive material outside the furnace, France’s ASN nuclear safety watchdog said. Four other people were injured, one seriously, in […]
Conflict between Sunni and Shi’ite Islam in the Middle East
Source Asia Times SPENGLER Without stretching the analogy, the conflict between Sunni and Shi’ite Islam in the Middle East today has something in common with the Thirty Years War that surrounded 17th-century Holland. Most Israelis seem to have adapted well to a long-term war regime amid a sea of unrelenting […]
What if the ‘Lion’ hadn’t been slain?
Source: Asia Times Al-Qaeda’s assassination on September 9, 2001, of the Taliban regime’s most powerful enemy – Ahmad Shah Massoud – was as pivotal an event for Afghanistan as the United States-led invasion of the country following the 9/11 attacks. Ten years on, the legend of the “The Lion of […]