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: Associated Press By STEPHEN WRIGHT PALU, Indonesia (AP) — The two flags hanging outside Anwar Ragaua’s house have gotten him police warnings but the wiry 50-year-old vows he’s not […]
Source: Reuters BANGKOK (Reuters) – A fishing boat carrying more than 60 Rohingya Muslims was found beached on an island in southern Thailand on Tuesday, officials said. The passengers – […]
Source: The New York Times By Elizabeth Dias Evangelical churches have long distanced themselves from the sexual abuse crisis that has consumed the Catholic Church. But a reckoning has arrived. HURST, Tex. — Christi Bragg listened in disbelief. It was a Sunday in February, and her popular evangelical pastor, Matt Chandler, […]
Source: Slate By Ruth Graham The capital of California was named for a river that was in turn named for the Catholic sacrament of the Eucharist. So it’s notable that […]
Source: Associated Press By David Crary As the Roman Catholic church’s sex abuse scandal grows ever wider in scope in the U.S., bishops convene for a national meeting in Baltimore […]
Source: Associated Press By DAVID CRARY The Southern Baptist Convention gathers for its annual national meeting Tuesday with one sobering topic — sex abuse by clergy and staff — overshadowing […]
Suggested reading: North Carolina man sentenced to life after pleading guilty to the 2015 murders of 3 Muslim college students We have saved the above video in the Muslim Times’ as […]
By Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Richard Dawkins writes in his book, the God Delusion: “Being an atheist is nothing to be apologetic about. On the […]
German court lifts city’s ban on burkini swimsuits BERLIN (AP) — A German court has lifted a city’s ban on the burkini, an all-encompassing swimsuit used by some Muslim women. […]
Source: CNN (CNN) A North Carolina man was sentenced Wednesday to three terms of life in prison for shooting and killing three of his neighbors, all Muslim students, in the college […]
By Eric Barker, author of Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong You must be tired of them. They’re […]
Epigraph: Whoever causes to get killed an innocent human life is indeed perpetrating a genocide. (Al Quran 5:32/33) Suggested Reading A British Convert to Islam: ‘I found Qur’an mother of […]
When Americans say they believe in God, what do they mean? https://t.co/oiqaJheIzA pic.twitter.com/XLRzgF52xr — Pew Research Religion (@PewReligion) June 13, 2019 Suggested reading Refuting William Lane Craig’s: ‘The Birth of God’ […]
Source: Pew Research Center More than 15 years after U.S. bishops pledged “zero tolerance” for sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests, reports of previously unpublicized misconduct continue to receive […]
Suggested reading Who’s Afraid of Arabic Numerals? Book Review: Muhammad: An anticlerical hero of the European Enlightenment The Spaniards rediscovering their nation’s long-lost Islamic heritage Taj Mahal is Not Only a Symbol for […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times It is very simple! And as we celebrate, the first United Nations International Day of Yoga – the […]
The populist right is forging an unholy alliance with religion Source: Guardian By Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins and Anton Jäger From Salvini to Orbán, ethno-nationalists are hijacking religious themes to fuel their […]
Epigraph: He (Allah) it is Who has sent His Messenger (Muhammad), with guidance and the Religion of truth, that He may make it prevail over all other religions. And sufficient […]
Collected by Dr. Abdul Alim, the Muslim Times’ Editor for Islam Written by Dr. Katharina Mommsen, Professor Emeritus at Stanford University Original year of publication 1967. The original title was […]
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla Will Connolly, the Australian teen who egged an anti-Muslim politician, said funds he got through GoFundMe campaigns weren’t “mine to keep.” The Australian teenager […]
