Chinese staff forced to drink urine and eat roaches
Source: BBC News Managers at a Chinese firm have been jailed for making staff who failed to reach sales targets drink urine and eat cockroaches, local media report. Police took […]
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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
Prescription Doses of Fish Oil May Lower Heart Attack and Stroke Risk
Source: Time By ALICE PARK November 10, 2018 Omega-3 fatty acids, abundant in fish oil, are known to be good for the heart. Studies have shown that people who eat more […]
Is It Right to Blame World War I’s Treaty of Versailles for the Rise of Hitler?
Source: Time By STEVEN WOODBRIDGE, KINGSTON UNIVERSITY / THE CONVERSATION Just over a week after the beginning of World War II in September 1939, a letter appeared in the Richmond Herald — a […]
An ancient community in Pakistan fades as conversions to Islam rise
Source: The Washington Post By Haq Nawaz Khan BUMBURET, Pakistan — For centuries, a small community of fair-skinned, blue-eyed people known as the Kalasha have inhabited a remote valley in northwest Pakistan, […]
Under the shadow of Asia Bibi; Life as a Christian in Pakistan
Source: CNN Rawalpindi, Pakistan (CNN) It is a chilly winter’s morning and a weak blue fog has settled over Rawalpindi as we arrive at the city’s St. Joseph’s Cathedral. A security […]
Rohingya flee refugee camps in Bangladesh, as Myanmar prepares for first returnees
Source: Reuters By Ruma Paul, Poppy McPherson, Shoon Naing COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh/YANGON (Reuters) – Dozens of Rohingya Muslim families on a list of refugees set to be repatriated to Myanmar later this week […]
Death toll from Somali bomb blasts rises above 50
Source: The Guardian Somali hospital and police sources say the death toll from a string of bombings near a popular hotel in Mogadishu has risen to 53 with more than […]
Morrison urges Muslim community to be more ‘proactive’ in tackling terrorism
Source: The Guardian By Paul Karp Scott Morrison has said the Muslim community in Australia must be more “proactive” in tackling the threat of terror attacks because “in many cases” imams […]
Sikh soldier memorial statue in Smethwick vandalised
Source: BBC News A memorial commemorating 100 years since the end of World War One has been vandalised days after being unveiled. The work, which includes a 10ft (3m) statue […]
LGBT+ rights take center stage in Mexico’s new Congress
Source: Reuters By Oscar Lopez MEXICO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A bill passed this week in Mexico’s Senate granting same-sex couples equal social security benefits as heterosexuals now moves to […]
Woman who bore rapist’s baby faces 20 years in El Salvador jail
Source: The Guardian BY Nina Lakhani A rape victim is facing 20 years in jail charged with attempted murder, after she gave birth to her abuser’s baby in a latrine […]
American Jews Face a Choice: Create Meaning or Fade Away
Source: The New York Times By Gal Beckerman When a gunman slaughtered 11 worshipers in a Pittsburgh synagogue on a Shabbat morning last month, American Jews were left with a […]
Saudi Arabia Is Misusing Mecca
Source: The New York Times In the aftermath of the Jamal Khashoggi murder, the kingdom has exploited the podium of the Grand Mosque in Mecca by using its imams to […]
Humanity First with Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association USA is responding to California Wildfire
Dear Friends, Over the past several weeks, wildfires in California have devastated more than two hundred fifty (250) thousand acres of land including thousands of homes and businesses. More than […]
French President on Nationalism Versus Patriotism
In World War I remembrance, France’s Macron denounces nationalism as a ‘betrayal of patriotism’ Source: The Washington Post The French president’s remarks at a solemn ceremony in Paris could be […]
The Father of Algebra: Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times There are about 750 verses in Quran urging Muslims to make use of reason to understand nature and […]
Dr. Abdus Salam: Islam and Science Concordance or Conflict?
By Dr Abdus Salam, Nobel Laureate in Physics A semi-quantitative measure of this is given by George Sarton in his monumental History of Science. Sarton divides his story of the […]
A Pope Francis gargoyle now watches over Cologne cathedral
Source: Religion News Service By Tom Heneghan PARIS (RNS) — It took about a week for visitors to the massive Catholic cathedral in Cologne, Germany, to notice a small addition […]
Letter shows a fearful Einstein long before Nazis’ rise
Source: Associated Press By ARON HELLER 1 of 3 FILE – This June, 1954, file photo shows renowned physicist Albert Einstein in Princeton, N.J. More than a decade before the […]
Overcoming Islamophobia in UK
My Salam Is For Everyone Source: Patheo By Farouq Peru I am your Muslim neighbour in London. As there are almost a million of us here (almost one in eight […]