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
By Jennifer Agiesta, CNN Polling Director Washington (CNN) A new CNN/ORC poll finds that although misperceptions about Barack Obama’s religious beliefs and background persist, they are not as widespread as some […]
Source: Huffington Post By Sumaia Masoom; Editor-in-Chief, ReadCONTRA Magazine I don’t remember where I was during the horrific attacks on September 11, 2001. I was 4, and I did not lose […]
Source: Jerusalem Post UNITED NATIONS – The Palestinian flag will fly at United Nations headquarters after the UN General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a Palestinian resolution, infuriating Israel with a move that […]
Epigraph: I asked the Messenger of Allah: “Who is the most excellent among the Muslims?” He said, “One from whose tongue and hands the other Muslims are secure.” [Al-Bukhari] Addressing […]
Epigraph: I asked the Messenger of Allah: “Who is the most excellent among the Muslims?” He said, “One from whose tongue and hands the other Muslims are secure.” [Al-Bukhari] Source: […]
Source: The Independent Two teachers at an Islamic school in Birmingham have been jailed for 12 months for “brutally” beating a young boy with a stick. The 10-year-old victim was […]
Source: The Local The new portrait released to mark the day is appropriately British, featuring the Queen sitting at her desk in Buckingham Palace, opening one of her official red boxes, looking off to the side while Sir Paul McCartney’s daughter Mary McCartney snaps the photo. But aside from Her […]
Source: The Daily Beast By Candida Moss The world was abuzz this week over a new human ancestor species found in South Africa. It is just the latest in a race […]
By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVISSEPT. 10, 2015 WASHINGTON — Officials at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee knew the odds were against them in the fight to block President Obama’s nuclear […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Many in the contemporary world think of marriage and divorce as a personal matter between the husband […]
Indeed, Allah enjoins justice, and the doing of good to others; and giving like among kindreds; and forbids indecency, and manifest evil, and wrongful transgression. He admonished you that you […]
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama told his administration to prepare for a “significant scaling up” of Syrian refugee admissions, under which the U.S. will take in at least 10,000 Syrians next […]
http://player.theplatform.com/p/2E2eJC/nbcNewsOffsite?guid=f_fossils_150910 By David McKenzie and Hamilton Wende, CNN Updated 6:49 AM ET, Thu September 10, 2015 | Video below source: CNN Rising Star Cave, South Africa (CNN) When an amateur caver […]
Source: NPR Nearly a century ago, immigrants from Germany and Ireland founded St. Helena Church in a working-class neighborhood in north Philadelphia. Immigrants, and their children, still fill the pews […]
Epigraph: Anyone who kills an innocent person, it will be as if he or she has triggered a genocide. (Al Quran 5:33) KANSAS CITY, Kan., Sept 8 (Reuters) – A […]
By Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson After careful consideration I am in full support of the historical nuclear weapons agreement between the United States, China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, Germany and Iran. […]
By Atif Rashid, UK I’m on an almost daily battle with Islamophobes whether online or in my mind trying to figure out why these people have so much hatred against Islam. […]
Epigraph: “Do not mistreat or oppress a foreigner, for you were foreigners in Egypt.” (Exodus 22:21) Image of Drowned Syrian, Aylan Kurdi, 3, Brings Migrant Crisis Into Focus Lead article […]
Source: The Daily Beast Russia’s foreign ministry pushed back Monday at the U.S. warning that the Kremlin was escalating the conflict in Syria, arguing that its policy to support President Bashar al-Assad’s government in the fight against extremists has been longstanding. “We have always supplied equipment to them for their […]
Source: Arab News ANKARA: Turkey’s military says 16 soldiers were killed in a Kurdish rebel attack against troops in southeast Turkey on Sunday. A military statement on Monday said six other soldiers were wounded in the attack in the mainly Kurdish Hakkari province, which border Iraq and Iran. Rebels of […]