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
Gunmen shot dead 10 foreign tourists at its base camp last year, but for serious mountaineers, the allure of Pakistan’s “killer mountain” remains irresistible. Militants stormed Nanga Parbat base camp […]
Source: BBC Dismissing the implications of highly intelligent machines could be humankind’s “worst mistake in history”, write astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, computer scientist Stuart Russell, and physicists Max Tegmark and Frank Wilczek in […]
Collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times If the works of the following six writers, who are former pastors or nun are read, with due […]
111. Satan keeps you back from the remembrance of Allah and from Prayer. But will you keep back? [5:92] Satan desires only to create enmity and hatred among you by means of wine and the game of hazard, and to keep you back from the remembrance of Allah and from […]
Source: ghanaweb.com Ghanaians have been advised to aspire to moral uprightness for their spiritual uplift and national economic growth and development. The Minister of Health, Ms. Sherry Ayittey, gave the advice […]
Epigraph: Once the world of ideas has been transformed, reality cannot hold out for long. George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Lead post by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times […]
JERUSALEM: Five times a day, loudspeakers at the top of nearly 200 minarets in this holy city call to Muslims to pray. They blare before dawn and the wailing cry […]
Sikh soldier lays at rest, far from homeland and adopted land Sunta Gouger Singh was among 10 Sikh soldiers who fought with Canada in the Great War, and the first […]
Religion News Service | by Kimberly Winston Posted: 05/03/2014 8:25 am EDT (RNS) A new paper draws an intriguing conclusion to a question scholars have wrestled with […]
Story Summary The Palestinians are in the most difficult position, given their relative weakness militarily, their fragmentation politically, and their vulnerability economically. Yet this moment is also one of opportunity for the Palestinians, on three important fronts: national unity, coordinated political resistance and the mobilization of international support. The PLO […]
Story Summary Tens of thousands of Syrians fled inter-jihadist fighting in the east as rebels Saturday neared a final deal with the government to withdraw from their last besieged strongholds […]
Muslim parliamentarians in Sri Lanka have called for President Mahinda Rajapaksa to intervene in order to stop the continued hate campaign, intimidation and threats perpetrated against Muslims by some Buddist […]
Several Haj and Umrah pilgrimage establishments have stopped accepting applications for Umrah visas from pilgrims over 60, as well as children, following a Health Ministry advisory to that effect as […]
Huff Post: by Kashif N. Chaudhry — In an interview with Reason magazine, this became clear when the interviewer asked if by “defeating Islam” Hirsi Ali meant, “defeating radical Islam?” She replied: “No. Islam, period.” When the reporter asked her to further elaborate what she meant by “defeat Islam” she replied: “I […]
Source: youtube.com A 73 year old British grandfather has become the latest victim of Pakistan’s notorious blasphemy laws. After reading some verses from the Quran – Masood Ahmad was jailed for […]
Source: huffingtonpost.com In a recent piece, new atheist Ali Rizvi argues “The phobia of being called “Islamophobic” is on the rise — and it’s becoming much more rampant, powerful and dangerous than […]
راشد احمد بلوچ rashid_blouch@yahoo.com اس واقعہ کو تاریخ کی آنکھ نے آج سے چودہ سو سال قبل دیکھا اور آنی والی نسلوں کی بھلائی اور رہنمائی کے واسطے ہمیشہ ہمیشہ کے لئے اپنے دامن میں محفوظ کر لیا ۔رسول خداﷺ کا قافلہ صحرا ئے عرب کی بے کراں وسعتوں کو […]
SATURDAY MAY 03, 2014 | PETER LEONARD FOR THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SLOVYANSK, Ukraine (AP) — Pro-Russia insurgents in eastern Ukraine on Saturday released the seven OSCE military observers and five […]
Group to mark ‘ethnic cleansing of Palestine’ on Holland’s WWII memorial day Times of Israel: THE HAGUE, Netherlands: The Platform Bewust Moslim group, whose name means “Platform Aware Muslim,” is […]
Epigraph: So go on reminding; surely, reminding is profitable. (Al Quran 87:10) Lead post collected by Shahid Parvez, India India: Peace Symposium 2014 in Mangalore Today Please find attached the invitation for the Peace Symposium that will be held in Mangalore on Saturday the 3rd of May, Inshallah. Senior […]