Video: Hillary Clinton endorses Joe Biden for president
(CNN) Hillary Clinton endorsed Joe Biden during a virtual town hall on Tuesday, putting the support of the Democratic standard bearer from four years ago behind the former vice president […]
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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
Coronavirus: How India will play a major role in a Covid-19 vaccine
Source: BBC By Soutik Biswas, India correspondent US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said last fortnight that India and the US were working together to develop vaccines against the coronavirus. […]
Tablighi Jamaat Killing Islamophobia with kindness and donating plasma
India coronavirus: Tablighi Jamaat gives blood for plasma therapy Source: BBC By Zubair Ahmed Members of an Indian Islamic organisation are volunteering to donate blood for plasma therapy after their […]
Maulana Tariq Jameel’s Extreme Physical Paradise: Do We Need Better Theology?
In this video Maulana is describing 130 feet tall and shining girl that he is offering his fans in a physical paradise that he is promising. Tariq Jamil (Urdu: طارق جمیل; born […]
When Will COVID-19 End: Data-Driven Estimation of End Dates
When Will COVID-19 End Data-Driven Estimation of End Dates (updated on April 27) This site provides continuous predictive monitoring of COVID-19 developments as a complement to monitoring confirmed cases. SIR (susceptible-infected-recovered) model is regressed […]
Italy bishops scold government for excluding Mass from lockdown easing
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Italy’s Roman Catholic Church has reprimanded the government for not allowing the faithful to return to Masses at the start of a gradual staged end to Europe’s longest coronavirus lockdown. Masses have been banned since early March when Italy closed most commercial activities apart from essentials. […]
New Zealand claims ‘elimination’ of coronavirus with new cases in single digits
(CNN) New Zealand claimed Monday it had “eliminated” the coronavirus as the country announced the easing of restrictions from “level four” to “level three,” with new cases in single figures. […]
Exclusive: She’s been falsely accused of starting the coronavirus. Her life has been turned upside down
Source: BBC Maatje Benassi, a US Army reservist and mother of two, has become the target of conspiracy theorists who falsely place her at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, […]
1984 Rare TV Interview With Yusuf Islam (formerly Cat Stevens)
Suggested reading by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Pulitzer Prize Winner, Garry Wills Talks About the Quran for 50 Minutes A Nobel for Karen Armstrong will bring the […]
The success of a Covid-19 vaccine will hinge on its delivery
Source: Stat News The lesson learned from a long history of using vaccines to fight massively disruptive diseases like smallpox and Ebola is that the vaccine itself is not enough. Like a good punch line, it’s all about the delivery. The smallpox vaccine was an average one with a limited […]
Editorial: It is inflammatory for Tariq Jameel to claim that women should be blamed for a global pandemic
Source: Dawn WELL-KNOWN cleric Maulana Tariq Jameel has made a disturbing assertion that Covid-19 has been unleashed on humanity because of the ‘wrongdoing of women’. During a televised prayer, the maulana condemned […]
Book Review: The Conference of the Birds
Book by Farid ud-Din Attar (Author) in Persian Book translated by: Dick Davis, who is currently professor of Persian at Ohio State University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of […]
The Spiritual Life of the Peacock
Source: Wall Street Journal By Nic Rowan St. Anthony described the birds as purified by tribulation, then adorned with virtue. On a summer afternoon a few years ago, Lisa Schubert […]
Everything we know about Neom, a ‘mega-city’ project in Saudi Arabia with plans for flying cars and robot dinosaurs
Source: Business Insider By Bill Bostock Saudi Arabia is building a futuristic mega-city called Neom deep in a desert bordering the Red Sea. The state has pledged at least $500 […]
Ramadan unites Muslims worldwide amid coronavirus-enforced physical separation
Source: Arab News RIYADH: Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries have been forced to take strict precautionary measures to rein in the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak during Ramadan. Sheikh Abdul […]
The Dalai Lama on Earth Day: COVID-19 is ‘a lesson in universal responsibility’
Source: Religion News Service (RNS) — On this 50th anniversary of Earth Day, our planet is facing one of the greatest challenges to the health and well-being of its people. […]
Young and middle-aged people, barely sick with covid-19, are dying of strokes
Source: Washington Post Doctors sound alarm about patients in their 30s and 40s left debilitated or dead. Some didn’t even know they were infected. Thomas Oxley wasn’t even on call the day he received the page to come to Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital in Manhattan. There weren’t enough doctors […]
Panel suggests remdesivir as preferred antiviral for pediatric COVID-19 patients
Source: Healio In new guidance, a panel of pediatric infectious diseases physicians and pharmacists suggested that supportive care alone is sufficient to treat most children with COVID-19. Among children who […]
The Story of the 12 Monkeys: The Successful Chinese Vaccine
Vaccine shows promise in monkey trials, says Chinese company Source: Dawn Four macaques who received a high dose of the vaccine had “no detectable” amounts of the virus in their […]
Jill Biden: I’d love for Michelle Obama to be VP pick
New Day CNN’s Alisyn Camerota asks Jill Biden if her husband, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden, would consider former first lady Michelle Obama as his […]