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: NY Times. SANA, Yemen — An American journalist held for more than a year by Al Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen was killed during a rescue attempt by United States commandos late Friday, a senior United States official said. Early reports of the overnight raid were sketchy. The official said […]
Source: CNN Birmingham, England (CNN) — Whether it’s Mohammed becoming the most popular baby name, or one in 10 babies in England being Muslim or the fact that halal meat is being served in Pizza Hut, a Muslim story always tends to generate more heat than light. Indeed, Islamophobia is […]
Source: CNN (CNN) — The Pacific Island nation of Kiribati may be the first country to disappear under the rising sea levels of climate change. Its people fear their homeland may become the world’s next Atlantis. As our boat nears the shore, the dark shadows beneath the sea sharpen into […]
Source: TOI MUMBAI: Kalyan engineer Arif Majeed, who quit terror group Islamic State and returned to India last month, has told investigators that he was part of a radicalized group of 40 students at a Panvel college and each one of them was referred to as Naqeeb — Urdu for […]
Epigraph: O ye people! Be mindful of your duty to your Lord, Who created you from a single first life form and created therefrom its mate, and from them over […]
Source: GNA Accra, Dec. 3, GNA – Three senior high schools (SHS) on Tuesday received awards for reaching the finals of the maiden “Inaugural Africa Schools Debate-Dialogue League” competition. It is an Africa Intellectual Integration Project, organised by The Think Africa Forum, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) in collaboration with Ghana […]
Source: AT Mr. Azeem is seen seated on the left side of Prime Min Indian Prime Minister Narinder Modi met Mr. Azeem Sahib, President of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community in Poonch, a town in the Indian administered state of Jammu and Kashmir, last Friday. The meeting took place when PM Modi […]
Epiraph: Do they seek a religion other than Allah’s, while to Him submits whosoever is in the heavens and the earth, willingly or unwillingly, and to Him shall they be […]
Source: On Faith By Qasim Rashid Five Race Issues Everyone Needs to Acknowledge: How ignoring some basic facts exacerbates our country’s race problem. I remember having to explain to my […]
http://www.cnn.com/video/api/embed.html#/video/world/2014/12/05/pkg-soares-nyc-chokehold-global-reaction.cnn By Ben Brumfield (CNN) — If the color were removed from the boundless images of protests on America’s streets over the last two nights, they might be mistaken for […]
Epigraph: Say, ‘Bring forward your proof if you are truthful.’ (Al Quran 27:65) Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times My Exhibit A in favor of […]
By Rory Cellan-Jones, Technology correspondent Stephen Hawking: “Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn’t compete and would be superseded” Continue reading the main story in BBC Related Stories […]
The Huffington Post | By Carol Kuruvilla Legendary folk-rock star Yusuf Islam, formerly known as Cat Stevens, is bringing his peace train back to America. Yusuf will kick off the United […]
Epigraph: He it is Who has sent down to thee the Book; in it there are verses that are decisive in meaning — they are the basis of the Book — and there are others that are susceptible of different interpretations. But those in whose hearts is perversity pursue such […]
Source: CNN New York (CNN) — A black man dies after a confrontation with a white policeman. Crowds take to the streets incensed, decrying police brutality. And a grand jury is called to hear the case. The place is not Ferguson, and the case is not Michael Brown’s. It’s Staten […]
Source: CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — New elections will likely be held on March 17, the speaker of Israel’s parliament said Wednesday, a day after the Prime Minister sacked two senior members of his coalition Cabinet for criticizing government policy. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also called for Parliament to be dissolved, […]
Source: CNN Mogadishu, Somalia (CNN) — A car packed with explosives sped into a United Nations convoy near Mogadishu airport Wednesday morning, claiming at least four lives in the ensuing explosion, police said. Three of the dead were civilians; one was a security force member, said Police Col. Mohamed Hassan. […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times If anyone was not conviced completely about the paramount need for Separation of Mosque-Church and State, […]
Source: The Daily Beast: Just after midnight on December 2, about 20 gunmen from the Somali militant group Al-Shabab rousted awake miners sleeping in a tented camp at a quarry near the border town of Mandera. According to witnesses, the attackers separated the Muslims from the non-Muslims. Those unable to […]
Source: CNN Staffer out after first daughter comments “Dear Sasha and Malia: I get you’re both in those awful teen years, but you’re a part of the First Family, try showing a little class. At least respect the part you play,” Lauten wrote in the post. More: