He Has a Dream
Source: NY Times By Maureen Dowd WASHINGTON — As he has grown weary of Washington, Barack Obama has shed parts of his presidency, like drying petals falling off a rose. […]
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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
Ukraine Says Russian Forces Lead Major New Offensive in East
By ANDREW E. KRAMER and MICHAEL R. GORDON AUG. 27, 2014 NOVOAZOVSK, Ukraine — Tanks, artillery and infantry have crossed from Russia into an unbreached part of eastern Ukraine in recent days, attacking Ukrainian […]
Lesson From Old India: When an Economy Just Doesn’t Get Better
Source: NY Times Commentators have often compared the recent Great Recession of the United States and Europe to the Great Depression of the 1930s. In both cases, asset prices tumbled, financial systems […]
eDigest: China plans to oust Microsoft, Apple and Android with own software
Epigraph: “Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.” – President Theodore Franklin D. Roosevelt China plans to oust Microsoft, Apple and Android […]
CEASE-FIRE EXTENDED BUT NOT HAMAS TERMS: THE NEW YORK TIMES
Cease-Fire Extended, but Not on Hamas’s Terms By JODI RUDORENAUG. 26, 2014 Photo A Hamas militant fired a rifle into the air in celebration on Tuesday in Gaza City after the long-term cease-fire was announced. Credit Roberto Schmidt/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Continue reading the main storyShare This Page EMAIL […]
FRIENDS OF ISRAEL (AIPAC): NEW YORKER
Friends of Israel The lobbying group AIPAC has consistently fought the Obama Administration on policy. Is it now losing influence? BY CONNIE BRUCK 2014_09_01 TABLE OF CONTENTS » For AIPAC, it is crucial to appeal across the political spectrum. But Israel has become an increasingly divisive issue with the public. […]
French President names new cabinet in ‘last chance’ reshuffle.
By RFI French President Francois Hollande named a new cabinet on Tuesday after an open row led to the removal of top dissident voices against austerity cuts. The first government of Valls, which was appointed less than five months ago, dissolved on Monday after former economy minister Arnaud Montebourg made strong […]
eDigest: Is this Mormon Lady an Apostate?
Epigraph: There should be no compulsion in religion. Surely, right has become distinct from wrong; so whosoever refuses to be led by those who transgress, and believes in Allah, has surely grasped a strong handle which knows no breaking. And Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing. (Al Quran 2:257) Temple […]
Manal al-Sharif: A Saudi woman who dared to drive
Additional Reading Gender Equality in the Holy Qur’an – In the Beginning Man and Woman Were Equal
China plans to oust Microsoft, Apple and Android with own software
Source: Guardian UK China is planning its own desktop and mobile software to oust imported rivals from Microsoft, Apple and Google. The unnamed desktop version is due for release in […]
Is this Mormon Lady an Apostate?
Epigraph: There should be no compulsion in religion. Surely, right has become distinct from wrong; so whosoever refuses to be led by those who transgress, and believes in Allah, has […]
When Faith and Facts Collide
Source: The Huffington Post By Dave Pruett, Former NASA researcher; Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, James Madison University Conflict between faith and science is as old as science itself. In 1543, Copernicus’s great work, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, laid the groundwork for a new model of the cosmos, with the […]
The Struggle of Muslim Women to Fit in
By Maliha Fatima Rahman Coming of Faith brings the voices of Muslim American women to the world through multidimensional storytelling and empowerment initiatives. This post was originally published on Coming of Faith. I was […]
China To Pope Francis: Don’t ‘Interfere’ With Our Country’s Religion
Religion News Service | By Josephine McKenna Posted: 08/24/2014 8:14 pm EDT VATICAN CITY (RNS) China has reacted cautiously to a bid by Pope Francis to open new dialogue with Beijing, […]
Cardinal George Pell Sparks Outrage In Sex Abuse Survivors With ‘Trucking Company’ Analogy
Religion News Service | By Josephine McKenna Posted: 08/22/2014 7:43 pm EDT Our Source: The Huffington Post VATICAN CITY (RNS) One of the most powerful men in the Vatican, charged with […]
For Nuncio Accused of Abuse, Dominicans Want Justice at Home, Not Abroad
Source: The New York Times By LAURIE GOODSTEIN AUG. 23, 2014 SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — He was a familiar figure to the skinny shoeshine boys who work along the oceanfront promenade here. Wearing black track pants and a baseball cap pulled low over his balding head, they say, he would stroll […]
Sir William Jones and the Verner’s Law
Arabic a revealed language and the mother of all languages ABSTRACT OF COLLECTION OF THESE ARTICLES AND BOOKS Evidence that there is a mother of all the 6000 known human languages […]
The Corrupted Concepts of ‘current’ Christianity [Atonement & Trinity proved wrong]
The Truth Message – Part – 1.2: The Corrupted Concepts of ‘current’ Christianity [Atonement & Trinity proved wrong] While originally Christianity was a divine dispensation, subsequently some false doctrines and dogmas found their way into its teaching – these doctrines run counter to divine attributes, however, today these are widely accepted […]