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: The Washington Post By Tamer El-Ghobashy In the first visit by a sitting pope to the Arabian Peninsula, Pope Francis delivered on Tuesday a Mass for an estimated 180,000 people […]
Source: The Conversation Officials in six states, including populous ones such as Virginia and Florida, are considering bills permitting the study of the Bible in classrooms. Proponents of these bills insist that the Bible […]
Source: The Atlantic By TIMOTHY MCLAUGHLIN The reporting for this article was supported by The Masthead, The Atlantic’s membership program. Learn more. YANGON, Myanmar—By Kamal’s own admission, his family used to be […]
Source: Huffington Post By Ed Mazza The evangelical leader refuses to even admit that the president has lied. President Donald Trump has made more than 8,000 “false or misleading claims” […]
Source: CNN By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN)Cancers fueled by obesity are on the rise among young adults in the United States and appearing at increasingly younger ages, according to an analysis […]
Source: BBC News A 21-year-old Nepali woman died of suffocation in a windowless “menstruation hut” after she lit a fire to keep warm, say police. Parwati Bogati was found when […]
Source: The New York Times By Sheryl Gay Stolberg WASHINGTON — Representatives Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota were hailed as symbols of diversity when they were […]
Source: The New York Times By David DeSteno, professor of psychology at Northeastern University, is the author of “Emotional Success: The Power of Gratitude, Compassion, and Pride.” Hostility toward spiritual […]
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Source: Time By ALAN SUDERMAN / AP (RICHMOND, Va.) — Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s page in his 1984 medical school yearbook contains a photo of a person in blackface and another […]
Source: Reuters BY Michaela Cabrera NEAUPHLE-LE-CHATEAU, France (Reuters) – Forty years ago this month, the man who would go on to lead the Islamic revolution in Iran lived in a […]
Source: Reuters BY Philip Pullella, Sylvia Westall VATICAN CITY/ABU DHABI (Reuters) – Pope Francis is hoping to persuade a country enmeshed in a regional war that he has condemned to give […]
Source: Associated Press By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ HAVANA (AP) — A Cuban government push to legalize gay marriage has set off an unprecedented reaction from the island’s rapidly growing evangelical churches, […]
Source: The Guardian BY Nazia Parveen North of England correspondent The assistant headteacher of a school teaching children about homosexuality as part of a special programme has defended its decision after […]
Source: Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin has criticized Ukraine’s move to set up a new Orthodox church independent from Moscow and promised to defend religious freedom. Earlier […]
Source: Associated Press By HYUNG-JIN KIM SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — One North Korean defector in Seoul describes her family back home quietly singing Christian hymns every Sunday while someone […]
Source: The Washington Post By Meagan Flynn Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.), who is Jewish, received a voice mail on Thursday that he wanted Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), who is Muslim, […]
By Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The short 10-12 minute talk is within the first 22 minutes of the video, from minute 10 to 22, after the […]
Source: USA Today By Erin Richards, USA TODAY A wave of “Bible literacy” bills emerging in state legislatures would allow more students in public high schools to study the Old and […]
Source: The Guardian By Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor Postcolonial guilt about Britain’s imperial past has held the country back from addressing the deepening persecution of Christians across the world, the […]