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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
Condemning terror, Collecting blood, Come and Donate with us in Rochester NY
Source: Democrat and Chronicle Written by Mubarak Bashir: Guest Essayist The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community has been a strong voice in condemning terrorism and violence of any kind and putting those words into actions. For […]
How to find Posts for a Given Date?
It is very simple. The Muslim Times has only two kinds of pages, the Homepage and the secondary pages. When you open any news, by clicking on it, you have opened what we call the secondary page. Familiarize yourself with the side columns of this kind of page. On the top we […]
Princeton beats Harvard (in magazine ranking)
(CNN) — Princeton pulled ahead of Harvard to claim first place in the “best national universities” category in U.S. News & World Report’s annual ranking of nearly 1,800 schools. Williams College again claimed […]
Archbishop Pietro Parolin: Priest Celibacy is Open to Discussion
Epigraph: Then We caused Our Messengers to follow in their footsteps; and We caused Jesus, son of Mary, to follow them, and We gave him the Gospel. And We placed in the […]
9/11 Memorial Interfaith Service, You are Invited
I would like to invite you to an Interfaith memorial service in honor of the victims of 9/11 at our mosque on Wednesday 11th September 2013 starting at 7 PM […]
US not at war with Syria!
Source: The Nation By Yasmin Aftab Ali It is easier to start wars than to end them. It is easier to blame others than to look inward, to see what is different about someone than to find the things we share. But we should choose the right path, not just […]
Michelle Obama Opposes Syria Strike, President Says
Source: The Huffington Post First Lady Michelle Obama opposes military action in Syria, President Barack Obama told PBS and NBC News on Monday. “My own family members… they’re very wary […]
Aramaic Language Jesus Spoke Endangered By Syria Conflict
By The Associated Press 09/06/13 01:15 PM ET EDT The Syrian government sent reinforcements Friday to the ancient, predominantly Christian village of Maaloula, where rebels have battled regime troops this […]
Jinnah unequivocally wanted Pakistan to be a secular state
Source: Pak Tea House By Yasser Latif Hamdani I am writing this article as a rebuttal to Khuldune Shahid’s article “Jinnah’s Pakistan a mirror of his contradictions.” It is necessary because if you do not counter a falsehood in public domain over time it is taken to be the truth. […]
Pakistan: What was to be and What it is
By Col. Riaz Jafri (Retd) Introduction Pakistan came into being sixty two years ago. There are not many around who saw it happening. Some alive today though may have been born yet might not have been mature enough to grasp the politics of the time, unless they are today in their […]
We Dream, Therefore God Is!
Epigraph: He (Allah) is the Knower of the unseen; and He reveals not His secrets to any one, except to him whom He chooses, namely a Messenger of His. (Al Quran […]
I will Wash Feet of Pope Francis, in Public, If …
Written by Zia H Shah MD The synoptic gospels, Mark 14:22-25, Matthew 26:26-29, Luke 22:13-20, depict Jesus as presiding over the Last Supper. References to Jesus’ body and blood foreshadow his crucifixion, and he identifies them […]
G20 ‘divided’ on Syria in the meeting in St. Petersburgh
Source: BBC World leaders meeting for the final day of the G20 summit in Russia remain divided over military action in Syria. Italian PM Enrico Letta said the splits in […]
God the Father: Ours or Jesus’ Only?
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD I invite you to simply read the Gospel of Matthew, it should not take you more than a few hours and pick up all expressions of ‘your Father,’ ‘our Father’ or ‘my Father.’ There is a short cut in this day and […]