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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

Matthew 15:21-28: Teaching Jesus

Source: The Huffington Post By Barbara Kay Lundblad This story in Matthew 15 is very troubling. A Canaanite woman cries out to Jesus to heal her daughter. By the end of the story, her daughter has been healed — but between the crying and the healing, Jesus says some terrible things. […]

Video: Thousands Gather in Harrisburg, USA to Promote World Peace

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Robin Williams… and My Dad

Source: The Huffington Post By Rev. Chuck Currie: United Church of Christ minister The shocking news about Robin Williams’ apparent suicide isn’t really shocking so much as it is commonplace. In 2011, the Centers for Disease Control reported 39,518 suicides, which makes suicide the 10th leading cause of death for Americans. In […]

PBS Documentary: The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community

The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (Arabic: الجماعة الإسلامية الأحمدية‎, transliterated: al-Jamā’ah al-Islāmīyyah al-Ahmadīyyah; Urdu: احمدیہ مسلم جماعت‎) is the larger of two communities that arose from the Ahmadiyya movement founded in 1889 in India by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian (1835–1908). The original movement […]

Tragedy of Human Callousness

By Maryam Hedayat “Muslims are busy in shopping for Eid and people of Gaza are busy buying coffin every minute” wrote one of my Palestinian friends on her Facebook status. No doubt, I was really very sad and upset over what she expressed in solidarity with her fellow Palestinians. Millions around […]