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
This is an interesting piece worth reading and exploring as well. (Dr. Koya) How Islam Built The Very Fabric of America Offline Komissar al-Blogunov Did Islam really build America? It’s a silly question to ask; of course we’re a Muslim nation with a deep Islamic tradition – it should be […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times According to Encyclopedia Britannica: Baptism is a sacrament of admission to the Christian Church. The forms and […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Saint Athanasius of Alexandria (c. 296–298 – 2 May 373), also called Athanasius the Great,Athanasius the Confessor or, primarily in the Coptic […]
Dawn: TWO policemen stand guard over the charred remains of Boota’s house in a narrow alley of Arafat Colony off Racecourse Road in Gujranwala. They were deployed there on Monday to protect the ashes. For further security, the police have locked up the house, inside which may lie evidence against […]
Dawn: WASHINGTON – As Turkey prepares to vote for its first ever directly elected president, a new US survey says the Turks are divided over the current government’s efforts to […]
Dailykos.com: Umaru Fofana and Adam Bailes bring us the sad news that Sierra Leones’ top specialist in Ebola and viral hemorrhagic fever diseases, Dr. Sheik Umar Khan, died of Ebola after being exposed by one of the more than 100 patients he has heroically cared for. Their article, Top Ebola […]
The Hindu: The desire of Islamist extremists to ‘purify’ Pakistan has resulted in a major catastrophe for the minorities. The country cannot emerge as a modern pluralist state until the reversal of this culture of intolerance The murder in Gujranwala of an elderly woman, a seven-year-old girl and an infant […]
Mondoweiss: by Annie Robbins — (Photo:Ads Against Apartheid) Bostonians have been checking out the “ONE WORD” campaign in their subway system, describing Israel’s crimes against Palestinians. The ad campaign was launched this week by Ads Against Apartheid (AAA), a local Boston-based nonprofit. The ads are currently running in Boston’s downtown State Street Station where they […]
Epigraph: Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be […]
theguardian: Editorial — Displaced Palestinian Hajar Muharram, five, sits in a classroom where her family of seven now lives, at a UN school, in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip. Photograph: Lefteris Pitarakis/AP Wars kill people, including teachers in their classrooms, nurses in their hospitals, and farmers in their fields. But […]
At least six people have been killed in a suicide bombing at a college in northern Nigeria’s biggest city, Kano, witnesses say. The female bomber is reported to have blown herself up as students queued to check their names on an admission list. Meanwhile the government says a 10-year-old girl […]
HSBC bank has written to Finsbury Park Mosque and other Muslim organisations in the UK to tell them that their accounts will be closed. The reason given in some cases was that to continue providing services would be outside the bank’s “risk appetite”. The wife and teenage children of a […]
The US has said the shelling of a UN shelter in Gaza is “totally unacceptable and totally indefensible”. In its strongest criticism yet of Israel’s offensive in the Palestinian territory, the US – Israel’s closest ally – urged Israel to do more to protect civilian life. A quarter of Gaza’s […]
Source: http://www.ahoban.org যুদ্ধ ও জেহাদ যুদ্ধ কে আরবীতে বলে কিতাল । যুদ্ধের নাম জেহাদ নয় । জেহাদ জাহদ শব্দ থেকে । এর অর্থ পরিপূর্ণ রূপে চেষ্টা প্রচেষ্টা করা (তাজুল উরুস ) নিজের প্রবৃত্তির বিরুদ্ধে সংগ্রাম করা সব চাইতে বড় জেহাদ , জেহাদে আকবর (মেশকাত) মহানবী (সাঃ) বলেছেন নিজেদে ন নফসের […]
Source: Ahoban.org মাহযার নামা (স্মারকলিপি) – Mahzarnama (the Memorandum) “মাহযার নামা“ সেই গুরুত্বপূর্ন ঐতিহাসিক দলিল, যা আহমদীয়া জামা’ত ১৯৭৪ সনে পাকিস্তানের জাতীয় সংসদের পূর্ন হাউস সমন্বয়ে গঠিত বিশেষ কমিটির সামনে নিজেদের মুসলমান হবার, নিজেদের মৌলিক ধর্মীয় বিশ্বাসসমূহ ব্যাথ্যা-বিশ্লেষনসহ প্রাণ্জলভাবে তুলে ধরার এবং এই জামা’তের বিরুদ্ধে উথ্তাপিত অমূলক অপবাদসমূহ খন্ডনের উদ্দেশ্যে […]
USA Today | By Kirsten Powers (RNS) Iraq’s Christians are begging the world for help. Is anybody listening? Since capturing the country’s second largest city of Mosul in early June, the Islamic State, formerly known as ISIS, has ordered Christians to convert to Islam, pay taxes levied on non-Muslims, or die. […]
USA Today | By Kirsten Powers (RNS) Iraq’s Christians are begging the world for help. Is anybody listening? Since capturing the country’s second largest city of Mosul in early June, the Islamic State, formerly known as ISIS, has ordered Christians to convert to Islam, pay taxes levied on non-Muslims, or die. […]