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
ET: The online social-networking and microblogging site, Twitter, has honoured five requests brought forward by Abdul Batin, an official of Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), to block ‘blasphemous content’ in Pakistan, […]
ET: The online social-networking and microblogging site, Twitter, has honoured five requests brought forward by Abdul Batin, an official of Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), to block ‘blasphemous content’ in Pakistan, […]
QURAN EXHIBITION. The Mauritian Jamaat has organised its 9th Quran Exhibition at the SSR Gallery in Quatre Bornes, one of the largest cities within Mauritius. The 10 day long exhibition […]
Epigraph: And say to the believing women that they restrain their eyes and guard their private parts, and that they disclose not their natural and artificial beauty except that which […]
Huff Post: by Yasmine Hafiz — The U.S. State Department’sInternational Religious Freedom Reportcites eight nations as “Countries of Particular Concern” (CPCs) due to their “particularly severe violations of religious freedom.” However, there are at least eight more countries which should also be on that list, according to the U.S. Commission […]
Source: The Washington Post BY GLENN KESSLER May 21 at 6:00 am A reader called the other day, asking for a fact check of a bus ad that called for ending U.S. aid to Islamic countries. It turns out the ad, sponsored by the American Freedom Defense Initiative, was in […]
Source: NY Times. In 1908, when a play called “The Melting Pot” was first staged in New York City, helping to popularize the term, New York had a foreign-born population of over 40 percent, but the city was 98 percent white (which could include people of Hispanic origins). The foreign-born […]
Source_ CNN A backlash against austerity, unemployment, immigration and loss of national power to European institutions could pushanti-EU parties to win about 25% of the 751 seats. In some of the 28 countries, they could even secure the biggest share of the vote. More:
Source; CNN Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) — The Thai military has taken control of the government in a coup, the country’s military chief announced in a national address Thursday. Military officials also imposed a curfew from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. local time (11 a.m. to 6 p.m. ET), authorities said […]
Source: ET According to the call data, available with The Express Tribune, the majority of women crank callers often started the conversation with phrases like “I love you”, “I like your voice and would like to befriend you” or “Can you extinguish the fire that burns in my heart?”“Women crank […]
Epigraph: On account of this, We prescribed for the children of Israel that whosoever killed a person — unless it be for killing a person or for creating disorder in the land […]
Global Post: HENIN-BEAUMONT, France — This former coal-mining town of 26,000 languishing in the economic badlands along the border with Belgium is about as far as you can get from […]
ET: LAHORE: The situation for Ahmadis deteriorated over the past year as seven Ahmadis were killed and 16 faced murder attacks, an annual report issued by the Jamaat Ahmadiyya on Wednesday stated. The report was issued ahead of the fourth anniversary of attacks on two Ahmadi places of worship in […]
Source: BBC.Com جماعت احمدیہ پاکستان نے کہا ہے کہ پاکستان میں احمدیوں کے خلاف نفرت و تشدد میں اضافہ ہوا ہے جبکہ قانون نافذ کرنے والے ادارے احمدی مخالف گروہوں کے ہاتھوں میں مسلسل کھیل رہے ہیں۔ تنظیم نے اپنی سالانہ رپورٹ میں کہا ہے کہ پاکستان میں 2013 کے […]
Epigraph: On account of this, We prescribed for the children of Israel that whosoever killed a person — unless it be for killing a person or for creating disorder in […]
Waseem Altaf The fact that Hamid Mir received six bullets on his body is no more an issue. That Hayatullah, Musa Khankhel and Saleem Shahzad were brutally murdered was […]
France24. The “Lift the Skirt” initiative, an idea put together by students, saw pupils at 27 schools in the region around Nantes invited to attend school wearing skirts as part […]
Epigraph: Then whoso does an atom’s weight of good will see it, and whoso does an atom’s weight of evil will also see it. (Al Quran 99:8-9) By Zia H […]
The Huffington Post | by Yasmine Hafiz Ahead of Pope Francis’ arrival in the Holy Land on May 24, over 450 American rabbis have signed a letter of welcome as he […]
By Saeed Qureshi Imran Khan and his unruly and impulsive political cohorts should not demonstrate indecent haste in dislodging the incumbent elected PMLN government thus opening a corridor for the army to take over power. He should understand that by doing so he would inflict a deadly blow to democracy […]