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:telegraph.co.uk The floodlights of Cologne cathedral will be switched off as a counter-protest against a planned anti-immigrant march, due to take place in the city on Monday night. Thousands of […]
Source: The Nation By Saima Baig Keeping with the tradition in Pakistan, whereby each time after a terrorist attack or any tragic event, fingers are pointed against someone else, this time again the blame was laid squarely at the door of others. The hero was Amir Liaquat who invited on his […]
Source: The Telegraph By Keith Perry, Nov 2014 World-famous biologist James Watson said he is selling the Nobel Prize medal he won in 1962 for discovering the structure of DNA because […]
Source: Arab News: STOCKHOLM: Swedes expressing solidarity with Muslims have staged manifestations after a series of recent attacks on mosques.In the city of Uppsala, where anti-Muslim rhetoric was scrawled onto a mosque wall on Thursday, hundreds of people pasted red paper hearts and messages of support onto the building’s entrance […]
Source: Arab News: In a live television speech last week, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said, “Did you know there’s an oil war? And the war has an objective: To destroy Russia.”“It’s a strategically planned war … also aimed at Venezuela, to try and destroy our revolution and cause an economic […]
Source:aljazeera.com Taipei, Taiwan – Every Friday afternoon about 1,000 Muslims gather for the weekly prayer at the Taipei Grand Mosque. Only 20 percent are local Taiwanese – the majority come […]
Statesman: by Peggie Evans — Members of a Round Rock mosque wondered if it was the workplace beheading in Oklahoma by a Muslim or terrorist activities of the Islamic State that caused someone to deface a local road sign bearing their group’s name. Members of the mosque who belong to […]
malaymailonline: by Joseph Sipalan — Followers of the Ahmadiyya sect are considered deviant by many Islamic countries that follow the Sunnah wal Jamaah ideology, which includes Malaysia KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 3 — Followers of the outlawed Ahmadiyya sect are challenging a crackdown on their activities nearly a year ago, on […]
The Huffington Post | By Carol Kuruvilla One Muslim bride from Australia wanted to pay tribute to the victims of the Sydney siege — even if it meant changing her […]
GEN. RAHEEL SHARIF IS CHANGING PAKISTAN FOREVER. Source: Newsweek BY KHALED AHMED From under-trial Pervez Musharraf’s hospitalization at the Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology on Jan. 2 to the attempt […]
Source: AFP Banjul (Gambia) (AFP) – Several dozen military personnel and civilians were arrested, and a large cache of weapons and explosives were found following a reported coup attempt in The Gambia, an intelligence source said Thursday. The suspects have been interrogated and were being held in “four villas” in […]
Source: CNN But is it really? Is it really a more dangerous place, particularly for the United States, than in the past? Or is this a mistaken impression, fueled by a 24/7 news cycle that relentlessly funnels disasters into our living rooms and smart phones? Let’s take a look at […]
Source: Arab News. STOCKHOLM: Swedish police were hunting Thursday for at least one suspect following what is believed to be the third arson attack on a mosque in a week.“Someone threw a firebomb, a Molotov cocktail at the building,” Torsten Hemlin a spokesman for Uppsala police told Swedish news agency […]
Source: Arab News: Saudi economists have emphasized the need for population control to preserve the country’s economic resources. “Families have to apply birth control in order to reduce expenses and provide better education and facilities to their children,” said Fadhel Al-Bouainain, an economist. He described the Kingdom’s population growth as […]
Source: TOI KARACHI: Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan has secretly married a former BBC anchor Reham Khan in a hush hush wedding, according to media reports. The 62-year-old Imran is believed to have tied the knot last weekend with Pakistani news anchor Reham, 41, who is a divorcee and mother-of-three. She lived in Britain […]
Source: Dawn. THE past few days have seen criticism against content aired on a recent episode of Geo’s Subah-i-Pakistan programme — hosted by Amir Liaquat — in which clerics invited on the show made several unpalatable accusations against the country’s already stigmatised and persecuted Ahmadi community. Following a show cause […]
Source: ET Those intent on bombing Pakistan back to the Stone Age — the Taliban — must have rubbed their hands with glee at the government response to the slaughter at the Army Public School in Peshawar on December 16. And that response was? Form a committee. Moreover, don’t just form one […]
Source: The Local The imam of the Kocatepe mosque spoke to the Andadolu press agency about the incident, condemning the vandalism as an “unacceptable” act. The head of the Turkish-Islamist Union in Vienna (ATIB), Fatih Karadaş, condemned the attack saying that “this is not an attack against Muslims but the […]
Source: The Local Photo: DPA The chancellor mentioned demographics, the rapid ageing of the German population, as one of the key national challenges and called immigration “a gain for all of us”. Touching on the case of a Kurdish refugee who has settled in Germany, she said that it is […]