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
Washington (CNN) New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has resigned, following a report on allegations of assault by multiple women in The New Yorker. “It’s been my great honor and […]
Source: The Washington Post By Sarah Pulliam Bailey More than 1,000 Southern Baptist women have signed an open letter to the trustees of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary that says they are “grieved by […]
Source: BBC News By Bruce Lieberman In late 1971, US Navy veteran Stephen Islas returned from Vietnam, but the war continued to rage in his head. “I came very close […]
Source: The Guardian By Simon Jenkins The group is considering dropping God from its meetings guidance as it makes some feel uncomfortable. This is the new religiosity The Quakers are […]
Source: The Atlantic BY KARINA PISER A manifesto published in the French daily Le Parisien on April 21—signed by some 300 prominent intellectuals and politicians, including former President Nicolas Sarkozy and former Prime Minister Manuel […]
Who speaks for American Muslims? The short answer is, no one. No individual or group can claim to speak for this country’s nearly 3.5 million Muslims, a diverse and dynamic […]
Source: Dawn By Nadir Guramani The National Assembly on Thursday passed a resolution to change the name of the National Centre for Physics at the Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU) from the […]
Sharp rise in aggressive brain cancer is linked to mobile phones with cases more than doubling over two decades Source: MSN and Daily Mail By Laura Forsyth Cases of glioblastoma […]
Competing Visions of Islam Will Shape Europe in the 21st Century Source: The Atlantic By David Frum Akbar Ahmed’s new book deals with how migration is reshaping the continent, and […]
Source: Associated Press BY ROD McGUIRK MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian Cardinal George Pell, the most senior Vatican official to be charged in the Catholic Church sex abuse crisis, on […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The title of this article is a part of a verse of the holy Quran from Surah Yasin: […]
Epigraph: And We will try you with something of fear and hunger, and loss of wealth and lives, and fruits; but give glad tidings to the patient, who, when a […]
Epigraph: Say, ‘O People of the Book! come to a word equal between us and you — that we worship none but Allah, and that we associate no partner with […]
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Karima Bennoune shares four powerful stories of real people fighting against fundamentalism in their own communities — refusing to allow the faith they love to become a tool for […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The former Christian governor of Jakarta, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, popularly known as Ahok, was sentenced to two years […]
Jimmy Carter: Why I believe the mistreatment of women is the number one human rights abuse 120 Women Who Changed Our World Source: MSN News BY Kara Lad MALALA YOUSAFZAI 1997-ACTIVIST […]
Source: The Star How naive we have been, whistling by the graveyard as carnage was wrought in European and American cities, Rosie DiManno writes. A sneaker. A purse. A tiny […]
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Source: New York Times By Aurelien Breeden PARIS — An Algerian woman’s refusal to shake hands with male officials at a French naturalization ceremony is sufficient grounds for denying her […]