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 Rick Noack December 28, 2018 BERLIN — When Germans file their annual tax returns, religion matters a great deal. If you’re Catholic, tax authorities will likely […]
Source: Associated Press By TIM SULLIVAN KURAVILANGAD, India (AP) — The stories spill out in the sitting rooms of Catholic convents, where portraits of Jesus keep watch and fans spin […]
Source: Wall Street Journal By Felicia Schwartz and Dov Lieber TEL AVIV—The Israeli culture clash that helped to precipitate the collapse of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling coalition in December is […]
Source: The Wall Street Journal By Bojan Pancevski December 31, 2018 BERLIN—Emanuel Bernhard Krauskopf’s trips to his synagogue in the German capital have become an awkward affair. The reason: Mr. […]
Source: NPR By JEROME SOCOLOVSKY In recent months, evangelical Christian leaders have been traveling to the Middle East to meet with rulers of Islamic countries and with Muslim clergy. The […]
Source: The Guardian BY Amrit Dhillon in Delhi Protests have broken out in the Indian state of Kerala, where groups of angry traditionalists waving black flags blocked traffic and staged demonstrations […]
Source: Reuters BY Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – The Vatican spokesman and his deputy resigned on Monday over disagreements on strategy, ending a year of upheaval in the Holy […]
Source: Reuters JERUSALEM (Reuters) – A religious-nationalist party in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition government split on Saturday, with its leaders saying they were bolting to appeal to more […]
Source: Religion News Service BY Aysha Khan (RNS) — This year saw wave after wave of new revelations about the extent of the Catholic Church’s sex abuse crisis. It saw deadly […]
Source: The New York Times By Mustafa Akyol One of the darkest episodes of the 20th century was the gulag — the Soviet system of forced labor camps where dissidents were […]
Epigraph: God created the heavens and the earth for a true purpose: to reward each soul according to its deeds. They will not be wronged. (Al Quran 45:22/23) And We […]
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Source: Australian Muslim Times Posted by Zahid Jamil The opposition Congress Party has beaten PM Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party in three key northern states indicating that the Indian electorate is […]
Source: CNN By Daniel Burke (CNN) A prominent cardinal resigned in disgrace. Grand jurors accused hundreds of Catholic clerics of secretly abusing children. A former Vatican ambassador urged the Pope himself to step down. It was enough for New York’s Cardinal Timothy Dolan to call it the Catholic Church’s”summer of hell.” The […]
Source: BBC News Intersex people in Germany can now legally identify themselves as such under a new law adopted in December. People who do not fit the biological definition of […]
Epigraph: And whoso associates anything with Allah, falls, as it were, from a height, and the birds snatch him up, or the wind blows him away to a distant place. […]
The Muslim Times is promoting universal brotherhood and sisterhood in a world, which is divided by nationalism, religion, race, social class, gender and last but not the least, obfuscation created […]
Source: The Guardian BY Melissa Davey Senior rabbis have been described by a child sexual abuse survivor as a “law unto themselves” and urged to resign from the peak body […]
Source: Associated Press By NICOLE WINFIELD VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican secretary of state urged Iraqi Christians who have endured years of Islamic extremist persecution to forgive, reconcile and […]
Source: Reuters BY Ahmed Kingimi, Lanre Ola MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – Islamist militants and Nigerian troops have been fighting around a fishing town on Lake Chad as the insurgents step up […]