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
US army officer embraces Islam Source: The Frontier Post ASADABAD (PAN): An American military officer has embraced Islam in the Watapur district of eastern Kunar province, the newly-converted Christian said on Saturday. James Grant, from the American state of Tennessee, said he converted after reading books on Islam for the last […]
Mexican Narcoterrorist Region May Abandon Catholicism for Islam By Daniel Greenfield FRONT PAGE It would seem as if Bishop Ruiz’s brand of Liberation Theology has had the same effect on Chiapas as on Europe. Chiapas is poor, but it’s now also appearing to trend Islamic as any region under the influence of the […]
NEWS & POLITICS AlterNet / By Alex Kane 85 COMMENTS Top 5 Islam-Bashing Republicans to Watch in 2013 While some prominent haters were booted out of office, there are still plenty of Islamophobes hanging around American politics. December 29, 2012 | Michele Bachmann (R-MN). Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons When Muslim-American organizations and […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD Epigraph: “Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Watch your words, for they become actions. Watch your actions, for they become […]
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Source: The Independent Reviewed by Ziauddin Sardar Around 300 years ago, the bazaars of the Middle East were overflowing with luxury goods. The commercial centres of the region attracted all variety of fortune seekers, speaking numerous languages. There was nothing to indicate that the region would not continue to be […]
31-year-old New York woman was scheduled to appear before a judge Sunday after being charged with murder as a hate crime for shoving a Hindu man to his death in […]
AF JORDAN TIMES BEIRUT — Jihadist rule must spread over Syria after the ouster of Bashar Al Assad, the head of the hardline rebel Al Nusra Front said on Friday, […]
JEDDAH: KHALIL HANWARE & P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR ARABNEWS Sunday 30 December 2012 Saudi Arabia yesterday announced a record surplus budget SR 9 billion for 2013, projecting expenditure at SR 820 billion and revenues at SR 829. It has allocated SR 285 billion for new projects, SR 204 billion for education, […]
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Sunday 30 December 2012 The Cabinet approved a SR 60 billion plan for the implementation of a metro rail network in Makkah, which would link the Makkah […]
Ed. Note: Addition to the heading by Editor Express Tribune: Anwar Mooraj: Whenever we are heading for the New Year, I get this irresistible urge to exhume and disinter the […]
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The Inquirer: The Aquino government has described 2012 as one of the best years ever for the Philippines with economic growth expected to surpass the targeted 5 to 6 percent and the stock market ending the year on a 38th record high, making it the second best performing market in […]
Source: Washington Post By Qasim Rashid As a Muslim American, #MyJihad begins every night—get to bed on time so I can wake for pre-dawn prayer and nourish my soul. #MyJihad […]
By TAMBA JEAN-MATTHEW in Dakar | Saturday, December 29 2012 at 15:01 AFRICA REVIEW In the wake of a recent Senegalese mass wedding that featured minors, it would appear that nuptial laws in the west African country border can sometimes border on the liberal. But for inter-religious marriages, this is […]
The future is largely Indian and to have a connection to this most culturally rich of civilisations is an awesome privilege BY AMOL RAJAN SOURCE: THE INDEPENDENT Friday 28 December 2012 By the time you read this, I shall most likely be in Pune, the sprawling metropolis that is India’s […]
By Fiona Ehlers Spiegel.de A US aid organization has handed children in the remote Ethiopian village of Wenchi tablet computers in an experiment aimed at enabling them to teach themselves. […]
By Alissa de Carbonnel and Peter Graff MOSCOW/BEIRUT (Reuters) – The international mediator touting a peace plan for Syria warned on Saturday of “hell” if the warring sides shun talks, and Moscow blamed the foes of President Bashar al-Assad for refusing to negotiate. U.N.-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi said in […]
by Julia Slater, swissinfo.ch Dec 29, 2012 – 10:44 “Forced exile is the worst situation you can have,” says Caroline Nanzer, Swiss delegate in Lebanon of the disaster relief organisation […]
Source: The daily Muse. 1. “Blame it on the Train” Extra points to all of you who immediately started singing Milli Vanilli—but in any case, as the pop duo learned, use these words and eventually everyone’s going to think you’re pulling a fast one. (Like an employee I once had […]