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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

83 percent German consider Islam does discrimination against women?

Source. Danielpipes.org Germany, as reported by the Institut für Demoskopie Allensbach in November 2012: 56 percent: striving for political influence 60 percent: revenge and retaliation 64 percent: violence 68 percent: intolerance toward other faiths 70 percent: fanaticism and radicalism 83 percent: discrimination against women. More: Additional Reading Book Review: Islam Without Extremes […]

Teachers favor attractive kids

Source: CNN. (CNN) — It’s not news that looks matter. Depending on how attractive people think we are, we may have at times found ourselves dateless or overwhelmed with unwanted attention. Studies have indeed shown that people attribute more intelligence and competence to taller, well-turned-out or otherwise good-looking people. However, a new […]

Man tries to sell stolen brains on eBay.

Source: CNN (CNN) — This was not was your typical undercover sting. For starters, it was happening at an Indiana Dairy Queen. And the target was brains. Yeah, a brain bandit. The arrest last month of a 21-year-old suspect uncovered, police say, a macabre scheme to steal the brains of dead […]

Russia’s new terror threat: Ethnic jihadis

Source: TOI MOSCOW: The suspected involvement of converts to Islam in Russian suicide bombings points to the growing reach of jihadists far beyond the Muslim provinces of Chechnya and Dagestan, where insurgency and separatism have simmered for two decades. Russian news media say the authorities suspect an ethnic-Russian convert to Islam may have been […]

Detour:

Source: ET ISLAMABAD / RAWALPINDI: Former president General (retd) Pervez Musharraf fell sick on his way to the hearing of the treason case in the special court, Express News reported on Thursday. Musharraf’s convoy was redirected to the Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology in Rawalpindi. According to government officials, Musharraf complained of pain in his […]

The Clock is Ticking

By Imam Syed Shamshad A. Nasir (Baitul Hameed Mosque – Chino, CA) The year 2013 is here no more. By the grace of God, we have made it to 2014. We pray that every new day that dawns is a blessed one, and every night that passes does so in […]