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
WASHINGTON: The founder of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons program claims that in the late 1990s North Korean officials paid kickbacks to senior Pakistani military figures in exchange for critical weapons technology. Abdul Qadeer Khan has given a United States-based expert documents that appear to show North Korea’s government paid more than […]
A charter fishing boat with 44 people aboard sank into the Sea of Cortez off Mexico on Sunday, leaving at least one person dead, the United States Coast Guard said. Eight people, seven of them Americans, were still missing late Monday night. “Initial reports from Mexico are that it was bad […]
Now they tell us. Heart specialists who sifted through a registry of more than 600,000 people treated with catheters, inflatable balloons and stents to clear blocked coronary arteries found the procedures were used too often in patients with stable heart trouble. About 12 percent of the interventions in stable patients, […]
Marine Le Pen’s Populism for the Masses French politician Marine Le Pen is attracting new voters to the National Front, the right-wing populist party founded by her father, by railing against immigration and globalization. With France’s elections a year away, Le Pen is already polling ahead of President Nicolas Sarkozy. […]
Germany is discussing its shortage of skilled professionals, and it hopes to solve the problem by attracting doctors and engineers from abroad. The government acts as if it can just stand there and start calling out for qualified workers from the around the world. But why should they come to […]
July 02–The random pop-pop-pop of firecrackers will reach its seasonal peak with Monday’s Fourth of July celebrations, but this most patriotic — and pyrotechnic — holiday can drive many combat veterans away from parade routes and picnics. Rather than hang around the house for barbecues with friends, some veterans who […]
All signs so far point to a smooth transition in Thailand after deposed former premier Thaksin Shinawatra’s Puea Thai party handed the Democrats a humbling election defeat. Future stability will be determined largely by how hard and how fast Thaksin’s sister Yingluck, the new prime minister, pushes for an amnesty […]
A very quiet summit recently took place at a North Atlantic Treaty organization (NATO) base in Molesworth, in the United Kingdom. Facing the British was none other than Prince Turki al-Faisal, former director general of Saudi Arabia’s feared Mukhabarat (intelligence services), and once a very close friend of slain al-Qaeda […]
Hizb ut-Tahrir (HuT), or the Liberation Party, was founded in 1953 in Jerusalem. The party advocates the politics of pan-Islam by calling for the re-establishment of the Islamic caliphate. Hizb ut-Tahrir is active in most Muslim countries in addition to Western Europe, North America and Australia. […]
The 63rd Jalsa Salana, the Annual Convention of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community concluded on July 3, 2011. The event which commenced on July 1, 2011 at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex and Expo Center, Harrisburg, was attended by 5,800 delegates from all over the country. Prominent government officials joined the […]
“I didn’t think I would ever stop”, Abu Salah tells the circle. “After 14 years of buying and selling, hashish, heroin and cocaine, I had lost control of my life. I had no job. I would never speak to my family.” His story, and the clinic we are sitting in, […]
جسم کے اندر رکھنے والے بم سے نیا خطرہ The US has warned airlines of a potential threat from militants surgically implanting explosives. It came after the Department of Homeland Security issued a memo to security officials and foreign counterparts alerting them to the threat of “body packing”. No specific […]
ABENGOUROU, Ivory Coast—President Alassane Ouattara is trying to restore the economy of the world’s largest cocoa producer, but many farmers here continue to smuggle beans out of the West African […]
Major public and private donors have pledged more than U.S.$4.3 billion to immunize at least 250 million of the world’s poorest children against life-threatening diseases over the next five years and prevent more than four million premature deaths. “It’s absolutely brilliant value for money. For the price of a cup […]
Mrs. Catherine Gonzi, the wife of the Prime Minister of Malta Mr Atif, Mrs Muscat, Respected speakers, Ladies and Gentleman, It is a pleasure for me to share with you this opportunity to take stock of women’s issues. I thank all the previous speakers for their extremely informative and enlightening interventions about women […]
Nairobi — One person dies weekly in Kenya due to a shortage of anesthetics and the situation is worse in slums and rural areas across the country. In areas like […]
Accra, July 5, GNA – Maulvi Wahab Adam, Ameer and Missionary in charge of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission, has called on government to function on the principle of absolute justice, which is an important moral quality. Maulvi Adam said political, religious, social or economic justices should never be compromised and […]
Accra, June 22, GNA – Zenobia, 11, woke up with chills, high temperature, headache and general body aches. Crying, she went to her mother, “Mummy today I can’t go to school, my head, my nose is running, I am hot….” She tries to explain to her mother. Auntie Jane, surprised […]
An escaped convict allegedly murdered an elderly woman as part of a bizarre plot aimed at assassinating US President Barack Obama after a cross-country killing spree, court records showed. Maybelle Schein, 75, was discovered with her throat cut in the bedroom of her South Dakota home on Saturday afternoon. Police […]
Spinning yarn into cloth used to be a path to fortune in Pakistan, but a story of decline encapsulates how far a crippling energy crisis and rocketing inflation are suffocating the economy. Power cuts sometimes lasting more than 12 hours a day have forced factory owners in the country’s cloth […]