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: CNN (CNN) — Juergen Todenhoefer’s journey was a tough one: dangerous, but also eye-opening. The author TRAVELED deep into ISIS territory — the area they now call their “caliphate” — visiting Raqqa and Deir Ezzor in Syria, as well as Mosul in Iraq. Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, was taken by ISIS […]
Source: The Express Tribune Blogs By Ahson Saeed Hasan, The writer is a Washington DC based journalist who has written extensively on US foreign policy and South Asian affairs. He tweets @tweetingacho […]
Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad labels attack as ‘barbaric’ and to have ‘left humanity in despair’ During his weekly Friday Sermon, delivered at the Baitul Futuh Mosque in London, the […]
Hong Kong (CNN) — Cambodia Prime Minister Hun Sen has called for an inquiry into a suspected mass HIV infection in a remote village in northwestern Battambang province. The infected cases […]
Source: Huffington Post Queen Rania of Jordan, Queen of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Yesterday morning, all over the world, mothers kissed their children and waved them off to school, […]
Source: Dawn There is no sight uglier than a child’s corpse. I can say this because I have seen one dying before my eyes. When a child dies, no words can console the grieving hearts of parents. And a cowardly terror attack on a school just snatched over a hundred […]
Source: CNN (CNN) — Jordan Axani planned to travel around the world with his girlfriend Elizabeth Gallagher, until they broke up. Now, he’ll embark on Sunday on the circumnavigation with Elizabeth Gallagher. No need for a double-take: The name may be the same, but the person answering to it isn’t. […]
Source: CNN (CNN) — Established in 2007 following the Red Mosque siege, the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), or Pakistani Taliban, is now a prominent actor in that country’s politics. It is a diverse umbrella group uniting some 30 militant groups across the Kyber-Pasktunskwa and other tribal areas bordering Afghanistan. It is […]
Source: CNN CNN) — Have no fear, Vladimir Putin is here. That seems to be the message in an epic promo released ahead of the Russian president’s annual news conference as the country’s economy plummets. The promotion, released by a state-owned Russian channel, has the feel of a movie trailer, […]
By Dominic Diongson on 10:37 am Dec 16, 2014 Category Crime, Front Page, News, Politics Tags: blasphemy, Islam, Jakarta Post, Meidyatama Suryodiningrat Jakarta. Hints emerged on Monday the police may be softening their stance in the blasphemy investigation against The […]
Epigraph: No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Article 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Source: The Huffington Post By Mathew N. […]
Epigraph: No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Article 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights For the Muslim Times’ collection of […]
Epigraph: Golden rule: One should not treat others in ways that one would not like to be treated. Former US Vice-President Dick Cheney made no apologies on Sunday for the […]
http://www.cnn.com/video/api/embed.html#/video/crime/2014/12/16/ctn-intv-valencia-man-shot-by-police-in-walmart.cnn By Catherine E. Shoichet and Nick Valencia, CNN updated 1:44 AM EST, Tue December 16, 2014 (CNN) — After killing a man at an Ohio Walmart, police interrogated his […]
The Russian central bank has announced it is hiking its key interest rate to 17% from 10.5%. The bank said the move was to try to ease the rouble’s recent […]
Source:N Y Times: The sweeping reorganization of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, set to take effect next year, is likely to involve the merger or the closing of significantly more parishes than was originally announced last month, archdiocese documents show. Church officials said in November that 112 of the […]
http://www.cnn.com/video/api/embed.html#/video/world/2014/12/15/bpr-coren-australia-hostage-situation-sydney.cnn 5 people have fled from Sydney cafe A hostage taker in a Sydney cafe has contacted three media outlets via the hostages. An unknown number of people remain captive. FULL […]
Source: The Daily Beast But Pope Paul VI did, decades ago. This internet rumor isn’t true, but the Catholic Church really has done hard thinking about animal souls. This week […]
Source: BBC At least one gunman has taken several people hostage at a cafe in the Australian city of Sydney. Pictures on Australian television show at least three people with […]