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 Author: Mahir Ali WESTERN terrorism experts have faced considerable derision in the past few days for jumping to the conclusion, in the immediate aftermath of a bomb blast aimed at governmental offices in central Oslo last Friday, that Al Qaeda had once again picked a relatively soft target. […]
Source: USA Today Steroid drugs such as prednisone taken by 25.5 million Americans for arthritis, cancer, transplants and other conditions need stronger consumer warnings about a rare but possibly irreversible […]
Source: The Telegraph A Mexican judge on Tuesday sentenced a 14-year-old American boy to three years in prison for homicide, kidnapping and drug and weapons possession. Authorities say the teen […]
Source: Medical News Today Phone hacking. It doesn’t even sound ethical. Neither does phone spying nor my personal favorite phreaking. So how does management at a best-selling newspaper approve this and everyone else play along? “Some people may have remained quiet because they believed that this was acceptable practice – […]
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community condemns absolutely the horrific killings that took place last Friday in Norway. Such an attack serves no purpose other than to destroy the peace of a society and to bring devastation to the nation and the wider world. In response to this incident, the world Head of […]
By Yahoo! Maktoob DUBAI – Work at the UAE federal ministries and departments will be from 9am till 2pm during the holy month of Ramadan, the state news agency WAM said. Meanwhile, the working hours of private sector companies will be reduced from eight to six hours during the Holy […]
As its campaigns falter, the military alliance could find that in future fewer countries are willing to sign up to fight The armed forces of the world’s mightiest military alliance, Nato, have failed twice now to win a war. American, British, French and other foreign troops are preparing to withdraw […]
Anyone who’s ever struggled with their weight knows all the tricks for taming appetite: don’t eat mindlessly in front of the telly, don’t bolt your food and resist the triggers for non-hungry eating like boredom and stress. But what if you’d acquired a faulty gene that gave you such a […]
Source / Credit: The Huffington Post By Samia Khan Bambrah Growing up as a member of the privileged class of Karachi, I was blinded to many of the realities of my city. My friends and I were what the average Pakistani would call “burgers,” an affectionately derogatory term to describe the […]
Rather than being the glue that prevents parents splitting up, children will at best just delay divorce, according to a Swiss study. Fabienne Stettler, a sociologist at Neuchâtel University, says the number of divorces peaks when the family’s youngest child is aged between three and five. “Parents are often too […]
By BADEA ABU AL-NAJA | ARAB NEWS MAKKAH: The Mashair Railway will transport more than 500,000 pilgrims during the coming Haj season, according to Haj Minister Fouad Abdul Salam Al-Farsy. The minister made the announcement on Tuesday after a tour of a number of Tawafa establishments to assess arrangements being […]
By Rana Moussaoui Agence France-Presse, Jordan Times. BEIRUT – The unprecedented revolt threatening the regime in Syria has placed key ally Hizbollah in a tight spot and prompted the Lebanese group to adopt a more measured attitude, analysts say. “Hizbollah’s margin of manoeuvre is currently very limited because the strategic […]
Source / Courtesy: BBC online Prime numbers are found hidden in nature, but humans have made spectacular use of them, writes mathematician Marcus du Sautoy. Ever since humans evolved on this planet we have been trying to make sense of the world around us. We have attempted to explain why […]
source.newsweek A Dogma to Wreck the Country It beggars belief that the GOP is willing to risk national default for the sake of antitax purity. More.
source.newsweek A new wave of burned-out fathers is coming to screens—and they’re angrier than ever. Richard Cartwright / Courtesy of UniversalJason Bateman (left) and Ryan Reynolds (right) in “The Change-Up.” American dads have never had much to complain about. For decades—make that centuries—they were one-act parents, their main physical role […]
source.newsweek. Madeleine Albright on the time she stuck it to Putin More:
source.newsweek Was Richard Nixon too normal? Abraham Lincoln exceptionally deranged? Why we should look for a little bit of crazy in our leaders. By now, the 2012 Republican presidential contenders have all been tattooed by the opposition, branded as boring, damaged, or even insane. The entire GOP is “barking mad,” […]
source.dailytimes.pakistan Creating words and shaping them in an orderly form is the vocation of poets and men of letters. But there are occasions in life when one is left speechless. This is one such occasion for me; I do not have the words with which to adequately thank the Lenin […]
source:cnn.com More: CNN)— Karine Ramadan is a self-confessed teen geek who often spends five hours a day on the internet. She would love to work in technology when she is older, but will have to fight against a stark “gender gap” among Lebanon’s high-tech community, according to activists. Karine, 16, […]