Australia’s central bank to invest in Chinese bonds
Source: BBC Australia’s central bank is planning to invest around 5% of its foreign currency reserves in Chinese government bonds, its deputy governor has said. It will be the first […]
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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
Bringing people back from the dead
The Muslim Times’ Editor’s comments: This post has a large bearing on swoon hypothesis. Jesus did not die on the cross and was eventually resuscitated. Source: BBC By William Kremer: […]
Do we have free will – a physicist’s perspective?
By Professor Jim Al-Khalili CBE FRS, who is a theoretical physicist, author and broadcaster. He is a University of Surrey Distinguished Chair where he has also held a personal chair […]
Reflections on Boston: The best response to terror is to refuse to be terrorized
Source: Amnesty International Blog By Zeke Johnson April 23, 2013 at 1:56 PM My cousin lives in Boston and I was worried that he was somehow affected by the attacks. It immediately brought me back to 9/11 and the memory of how powerless I felt watching the Twin Towers […]
Interfaith Seminar on the Moral Empowerment of Women
Venue Wednesday, April 24 7-10 p.m. WSU Vancouver campus Dengerink Administration building, room 110 FREE and open to the public For more information, visit vancouver.wsu.edu Theme of Discussion Moderated by […]
Is Mullah a Disgrace for the Muslim World, You be the Judge?
You have to know Urdu to read this Ad by a Fundamentalist’s organization as they vilify the most honored and respected philanthropist in Pakistan, Abdul Sattar Edhi, because of their hatred of the […]
Why Judaism Embraces Science
Source: The Huffington Post By Rabbi Geoffrey A. Mitelman: Blogger, Sinai and Synapses I recently had a conversation with a neuroscientist, who also happened to be a self-described atheist. He knew I […]
President Thomas Jefferson — Was he a Monotheist?
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Source / Courtesy: Review of Religions and Alislam.org. First published in 2007. A compelling argument that Thomas Jefferson […]
Human rights activists taught online tactics
Source: BBC By Sean Coughlan: BBC News education correspondent An international training institute to teach online tactics for human rights campaigners is being set up in the Italian city of […]
Picture of the Day: Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an used for Oath in 2007
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (left) and US Congressman Keith Ellison (right) at his swearing-in ceremony with President Thomas Jefferson‘s Qur’an, in 2007 Keith Maurice Ellison (born August 4, 1963) is an American politician and lawyer serving […]
Boston Bombers Do Not Represent American Muslims
Source: The Huffington Post By Rabbi Marc Schneier: President, Foundation for Ethnic Understanding; Vice President, World Jewish Congress In the wake of the horrific attacks in Boston last week perpetrated by two ethnic Chechen brothers who appear to have been motivated by extreme Islamist ideology, we are already seeing a dangerous […]
Confucius Institute opens in DC
Updated: 2013-04-11 10:54 By Joseph Boris in Washington (China Daily) Source: China Daily On a day of unseasonable heat that ensured all of Washington’s cherry blossoms had burst into full bloom, Chinese and American dignitaries opened the first Confucius Institute in the US capital, expressing hope for a flowering of […]
Not all terrorism is equal
Editor’s note: David Rothkopf writes regularly for CNN.com. He is CEO and editor-at-large of the FP Group, publishers of Foreign Policy magazine, and a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. (CNN) — […]
Ambitious’ scholarships launched
Source: China Daily The $300 million scholarship fund for foreign students to study in China launched by US private equity tycoon Stephen Schwarzman represents a “remarkably ambitious” effort to boost understanding of China by the United States and other Western nations, an executive member of the Asia Society said. “For […]
Muslims helped foil alleged Canada train bomb plot
By Ian Johnston, Staff Writer, NBC News Muslims helped foil an alleged al Qaeda-backed plot to blow up a rail line between the United States and Canada, according to a […]
Keith Ellison: The first Muslim to be elected to the US Congress
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article is about the Congressman. For other people named Keith Ellison, see Keith Ellison (disambiguation). Keith Ellison Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Minnesota‘s 5th district Incumbent Assumed office January 3, 2007 Preceded by Martin Olav Sabo Member of the Minnesota House of Representatives from the 58B district […]
Keith Ellison On Boston Bombing: Someone’s Religion Should Not Be ‘Cause For Alarm’
The Huffington Post | By Amanda Terkel Posted: 04/22/2013 5:02 pm EDT | Updated: 04/22/2013 5:07 pm EDT Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), the first Muslim elected to Congress, issued a word of caution on Monday […]
Canada foils ‘al-Qaeda inspire’ terror attack on train
Source: BBC Canada’s authorities say they have arrested and charged two people with conspiring to carry out an “al-Qaeda inspired” attack on a passenger train. At a news conference, the authorities said the suspects Chiheb Esseghaier, 30, and Raed Jaser, 35, were arrested in Montreal and Toronto on Monday. The attacked was […]
US ‘turns blind eye to human rights’
Source: China Daily By Cheng Guangjin and Pu Zhendong (China Daily) China slammed the human rights record of the United States on Sunday in response to a Washington report, saying the […]
Half Guantanamo detainees on hunger strike
Source: BBC Eighty-four of the 166 prisoners held at the US-run Guantanamo Bay facility are now on hunger strike, US military officials have said. The prisoners are protesting against their indefinite detention. Most are being held without charge. Sixteen of the 84 prisoners are being force-fed and five are being […]