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
The International Criminal Court has opened a formal probe into war crimes in the Central African Republic (CAR). ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said there had been “endless” instances of rape, murder, forced displacement, persecution and pillaging since 2012. READ MORE…
Guardian: British warplanes are poised to join international airstrikes on the Islamic State (Isis) group in Iraq after David Cameron told the United Nations general assembly the UK was ready to play its part in confronting “an evil against which the whole world must unite”. In what amounted to a […]
Source: NBC VATICAN CITY – The Vatican on Tuesday arrested a former archbishop accused of paying for sex with children while he was a papal ambassador in the Dominican Republic, […]
By Charles Bane, Jr. Rockets fire between Gaza and Israel, bringing grief in their wake. They detonate in a curse of flash and smoke. It is like when there were hurricanes when I was a boy and I wrote in the dark, by battery lamp. I burrowed deep into my private […]
theguardian” by Gaby Hinsliff — The director of Liberty has written an important, sometimes startling book about the battle ahead. When it comes to human rights, common sense and decency is never enough So here we are again, those of us who lived through 9/11 and its aftermath; back at […]
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) The Obama administration is trying to clamp down on the corporate rush to move abroad for the tax savings — doing what it says Congress is unwilling to do. Few argue that the loopholes that encourage such tax-driven mergers with foreign companies are fine and dandy. In […]
President Barack Obama has touted the involvement of Arab nations – many of them Sunni-majority – in US air strikes against Islamic State militants. But will this coalition hold up to the scrutiny of their own internal politics? What a difference a year makes. President Barack Obama limped to New […]
Huff Post: by Carol Kuruvilla — These young British Muslims have a message for the so-called “Islamic” State: Don’t murder innocents in my name. Activists led by Britain’s Active Change charity are spreading peace online, using the same social media platforms that the terrorists are using to propagate hate. The young people […]
On his third day at sea near the coast of Malta, Shukri al-Assouli began to hallucinate. He saw streets, houses and his mother, who greeted him with a smile back […]
Fiji citizens voted overwhelmingly Fiji’s Military leader Frank Bainimarama the person who carried out a bloodless coup 14 years ago. It was the first time of the many coups Fiji has had in the over 20 years the military coup was not race-based. Bainimarama removed the Great Council of Chiefs […]
by Robert Fisk, The Independent The moment America expanded its anti-Isis war into Syria, President Bashar al-Assad gained more military and political support than any other Arab leader can boast. […]
By Janine di Giovanni / September 23, 2014 10:46 AM EDT The names of American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff and the British aid worker David Haines have become well-known since their gruesome deaths at the hands of the Islamic State, more commonly known as ISIS, as have Alan […]
Maryam Mosque in Galway to be inaugurated by the the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph) of the global Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. On 22 September 2014, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, […]
Epigraph: And let not the enmity of a people, that they hindered you from the Sacred Mosque, incite you to transgress. And help one another in righteousness and piety; but help not one another in sin and transgression. And fear Allah; surely, Allah is severe in punishment. (Al Quran 5:3) […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The following is based on a hadith from Sahih Bukhari Volume 4, Book 56, Number 676. There […]
Epigraph: And let not the enmity of a people, that they hindered you from the Sacred Mosque, incite you to transgress. And help one another in righteousness and piety; but […]
244. Commandment to exhort one another to mercy [90:18] Again, he should have been of those who believe and exhort one another to perseverance and exhort one another to mercy. Courtesy: Amjad Tariq Sydney
Huffington Post | By Carol Kuruvilla Residents of a London neighborhood were shocked after noticing street signs banishing women to one side of the road. The Hackney Council removed the controversial […]
Huffington Post | By Carol Kuruvilla Residents of a London neighborhood were shocked after noticing street signs banishing women to one side of the road. The Hackney Council removed the controversial […]
243. Commandment to make peace between two parties of believers if they fight against each other [49:10] And if two parties of believers fight against each other, make peace between them; then if after that one of them transgresses against the other, fight the party that transgresses until it returns […]