I Have a Dream: President Obama will One day Comfort the Parents of Drone Victims
Epigraph: “O ye people! be mindful of your duty to your Lord, Who created you from a single soul and created therefrom its mate, and from them twain spread many […]
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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
Urge others to do good and do good yourself
Imam Shamshad A. Nasir in front of Baitul Hameed Mosque, Chino, CA By Imam Shamshad A. Nasir According to the website www.USA.gov the ten most popular New Year’s resolution are: Drink Less […]
Atheism, a Comparative Study
By Obaid Ullah Khan Latest surveys of the religious demographics of the world show that around 33.3% of the world’s population belongs to Christian faith which is the largest religion in the world at present. At second position comes Islam which enjoys the adherence of around 21% of the whole […]
Can President Obama swear in on a Bible, if Half of it is Forged?
January, 2012 Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Jan. 20th — Presidential Inauguration Day, for President Barack Obama — is a Sunday, so […]
Presidents should not swear in on a Bible
By Dean Obeidallah, Special to CNN updated 10:35 AM EST, Thu January 17, 2013 (CNN) — U.S. presidents should not be sworn into office with their hand on a Bible. At […]
Jesus Constantly Prays to God the Father and Not to Himself
Collected by Zia H Shah MD The Church of Mary Magdalene “Jesus went out as usual to the Mount of Olives, and his disciples followed him. On reaching the place, he said to them, “Pray that you will not fall into temptation.” He withdrew about a stone’s throw beyond them, knelt down […]
Jesus never said in the Gospels: “I was dead and now I am alive!”
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD A comment by a devoted Christian in the Muslim Times gave me the title of my article or column for today. I […]
Freedom of Speech is not Absolute or ‘Gospel Truth!’
Epigraph Exceptions to freedom of speech, recognized in European Convention on Human Rights interests of national security territorial integrity or public safety prevention of disorder or crime protection of health […]
Making Islamic sense of free speech
Source: The Washington Post By Harris Zafar While many celebrated the winter holidays, news broke of the arrest in Saudi Arabia of liberal writer Turki Al Hamad for allegedly insulting […]
When and How would Forty Four Million Muslims Wake up to their Rights in Europe?
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Short answer to the ‘when,’ question is as soon as they read this article carefully and share it with […]
Atomic bond types discernible in single-molecule images
Source: BBC By Jason Palmer Science and technology reporter, BBC News A pioneering team from IBM in Zurich has published single-molecule images so detailed that the type of atomic bonds between their atoms can be discerned. The same team took the first-ever single-molecule image in 2009 and more recently published […]
Video: ‘One million children’ join Buddhist meditation event
Source: BBC Every year, a project called V-Star Change the World brings schoolchildren to a Buddhist temple in Thailand for a day of meditation. Organisers claim that one million children attended the most recent event at the Phra Dhammakaya temple near Bangkok. The temple has attracted controversy in the past, […]
British Airways Christian employee wins Discrimination case
Source: BBC A British Airways employee suffered discrimination at work over her Christian beliefs, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled. Judges ruled Nadia Eweida’s rights had been violated […]
Insulin injection errors may have exposed veterans to viruses
(CNN) — Hundreds of veterans may have been exposed to hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV because of medical oversights that allowed insulin pens to be used on more than one patient at a Veterans Administration hospital in Buffalo, New York, according to a memo from the Department of Veterans […]
The history of religious persecution
Source: Malta Times, June 2010 By Laiq Ahmed Atif The history of persecution is as old as human life on this earth. The religious history is full of examples of force and violence used in the name of religion by people who had no religion. People were tortured because of […]
Why I Remember President Truman on a Regular Basis
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Since the collapse of USSR, the President of USA, may be considered to be the most powerful person […]
Qutub Minar from the 13th Century: The Tallest Minaret in India
Source: Wikipedia Qutub Minar pronunciation (help·info) (English: The Qutub Tower; Urdu: قطب مینار) also Qutub Minar, is the tallest minaret in India [1] and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.[2] Located […]
President Jimmy Carter’s Remarkable Legacy in Books
Anwar Sadat (left), Carter, and Begin at Camp David, Maryland, 1978 James Earl “Jimmy” Carter, Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician who served as the 39th President […]
Why the Western Media must fight anti-Islam Bias
When an influential Israeli businessman predicts a Muslim holocaust, the time has come to dial down the Islamophobia Anti-Islam protest, UK 2010 By S. Taalay Ahmed In 1954, psychologist Gordon Allport devised a […]