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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

Prophethood in Islam: Explanation of the Finality of Prophethood and Khatm-e-Nabuwat by Hadhrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad (English)

On 7th September 1974, the government of Pakistan declared the members of Ahmadiyya Muslim community as non-Muslims. Every year this day is celebrated in Pakistan as a great success and victory; today’s Jang Newspaper, a leading Urdu newspaper of Pakistan has given a very detailed coverage to this and dedicated a full page to this subject […]

Facing Up To The Burqa: Is France Going Too Far?

Source/Credit: Liberty Magazine: JULY / AUGUST 2011: Photo: Google-Images There is a new law in France forbidding women wearing full-face veils in public. The media has largely focused on the voices of protest from religious leaders and human rights advocates. Yet it’s important to realize that this law enjoys widespread popular support—not […]

The terror in our midst

The United States has recently put pressure on Pakistan for its selective treatment of militants, but the recent attacks in Norway by a Christian fundamentalist highlight the failure of Western governments to holistically deal with domestic extremism. In the US, the post 9/11 paradigm has limited the government’s attention in […]

Bar raised for university entrance

University entrance requirements will be raised in 2012, but students will also have four new subjects to count towards the required level. Religious Studies, Business Studies, Education for Sustainability and Home Economics were added to the list of approved subjects for next year as NZQA today announced changes to UE, […]

Islam and Science – a BBC Documentary

By Prof. James Al-Khalili Al-Khalili is professor of physics, and professor of the public engagement in science, at the University of Surrey, UK. He is author of several books on physics and producers of several movies. In this documentary he very precisely examines the heritage of Muslim scientists, including the calculation, of […]

A country with one of the worst intolerance!

  By: Laiq Ahmed Atif, President Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Malta:  amjmalta@gmail.com ;  http://ahmadiyyamalta.org/  Tolerance, harmony, respect, human dignity, justice and fair and equitable dealing in all circumstances are the values of a civilised and educated society. And no doubt, these values are the backbone of the progress and success of any society. A society, barred from these fundamental qualities, […]

Fed to keep interest rates low until 2013

Source / Courtesy: Yahoo News NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — The Federal Reserve painted a much gloomier picture of the economy Tuesday, and indicated it would keep cash cheap and easy for at least two more years. Following its fifth policymaking meeting of the year, the central bank also surprised Wall […]

China becoming even more male

Courtesy / Source: China Daily BEIJING – Census figures show an increasingly imbalanced sex ratio at birth on the Chinese mainland, Deputy Health Minister Liu Qian said at a news conference on Tuesday. However, Liu did not respond to a reporter’s question about whether or when China will relax its family […]

Report shows rise in restrictions on religion

Courtesy / Source: Dawn.com WASHINGTON: Nearly a third of the world’s population lives in countries where it is becoming more difficult to freely practice religion, a private US research group reported on Tuesday. The Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion and Public Life said government restrictions and public hostility involving […]

Human memory and the Muslim Heritage!

Professor Richard Dawkins describes every human as a composite of four memories, nothing less and nothing more: 1.  Human DNA a memory and repository of ancestral survival techniques. 2.  Human immunity as a memory of all the challenges his or her white blood cells have responded to. 3.  The common […]

Do critics actually read the Koran?

Courtesy or Source: Washington Post By Qasim Rashid Ramadan is upon us – a time of fasting, charity, prayer…and fighting off Libyan children study Koran inside the mosque during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in the rebel-held town of Benghazi, Libya, Saturday, Aug. 6, 2011. (Sergey Ponomarev – AP) Islamophobia. Norweigian terrorist […]

Democracy’s drama in terrorism’s theatre

Source/Credit:  : Monday, August 8, 2011 , by Joseph S. Nye President George W. Bush was famous for proclaiming democracy promotion as a central focus of American foreign policy. He was not alone in this rhetoric. Most US presidents since Woodrow Wilson have made similar statements. So it was a striking departure when […]

The Root of All Sovereign-Debt Crises

Source/Credit: Project Syndicate, 2011, www.project-syndicate.org. 2011-08-04: By Amar Bhidé and Edmund S. Phelps  NEW YORK – The Greek debt crisis has prompted questions about whether the euro can survive without a nearly unimaginable centralization of fiscal policy. There is a simpler way. Irresponsible borrowing by governments in international credit markets requires irresponsible lending. Bank regulators […]