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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

UK: Ahmadiyya's Annual Peace Symposium calls for a united stand against extremism

Source: halesowennews.co.uk | by Sarah Cousin A MUSLIM organisation used its annual peace symposium in Halesowen to call for a united front against extremism. Around 250 people of different faiths gathered at the Ahmadiyya Muslim Association’s Long Lane mosque on Sunday. Civic dignitaries, politicians, faith leaders, charity workers and neighbours were among those […]

Michael Sattler: An Anabaptist Martyr, Preserving History of 16th Century Catholic Church

Michael Sattler (1495 – 20 May 1527) was a monk who left the Roman Catholic Church during the Protestant Reformation to become one of the early leaders of the Anabaptist movement. He was particularly influential for his role in developing the Schleitheim Confession. Title page of the Schleitheimer Confession (1527), bearing Sattler’s name. Sattler was born in approximately 1490 in Staufen, Germany.[1] He […]

The Machines Are Coming

Source: NY Times CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — THE machine hums along, quietly scanning the slides, generating Pap smear diagnostics, just the way a college-educated, well-compensated lab technician might. A robot with emotion-detection software interviews visitors to the United States at the border. In field tests, this eerily named “embodied avatar […]