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
Epigraph: “And We (Allah) made the son of Mary and his mother a Sign, and gave them refuge on an elevated land of green valleys and springs of running water.” (Al […]
Epigraph: And if Allah did not repel some men by means of others, there would surely have been pulled down cloisters and churches and synagogues and mosques, wherein the name […]
Source: The Washington Post By Philip Rucker January 21 President Trump watched on television, increasingly angry as House Speaker Paul D. Ryan criticized his handling of the deadly white supremacist rally […]
Source: The Washington Post By Robert Barnes and Dan Lamothe January 22 The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed President Trump’s broad restrictions on transgender people serving in the military to go into […]
Source: The Washington Post By Matt Viser MACOMB COUNTY, Mich. — Two years ago, Jeff Daudert was fed up with politics. He wanted to shake up the status quo. He didn’t mind […]
Source: PRI By Tania Karas For the past 15 months, a Mennonite church in Columbus, Ohio, has offered sanctuary to an undocumented immigrant mother from Mexico who sought to avoid deportation. […]
Source: Religion News Service By Jacob Wirtschafter and Amr El-Tohamy CAIRO (RNS) – Egypt’s skyrocketing divorce rate has spurred a debate among Muslim religious leaders and government officials about how […]
Source: BBC News Amnesty International says Iran arrested 7,000 people last year in a “shameless campaign of repression”. Those swept up by the crackdown included protesters, students, lawyers, journalists, environmental […]
Source: Associated Press By STEPHEN WRIGHT and NINIEK KARMINI JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A polarizing Christian politician whose campaign comments ignited the largest protests in years in Muslim-majority Indonesia was […]
Source: PRI By Patrick Winn Rodrigo Duterte delights in shock value. He’s threatened to slap UN officials. He once told former US President Barack Obama to “go to hell.” As for his signature policy, […]
Source: Washington Post Fenit Nirappil and Michelle Boorstein D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine is proposing legislation to add clergy to the list of “mandatory reporters” who must tell authorities about suspected […]
Source: Trending.pk Tunzale Memmedzade has done what no one has ever done. The 33-year-old decorative artist from Azerbaijan has written the complete Quran on pages made out of thin black silk. […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY BESHEER MOHAMED AND JEFF DIAMANT Even in the early 20th century, when Islam had little presence in most parts of the United States, the religion had a foothold in […]
Source: Reuters BY Andrew Osborn ORYOL, Russia (Reuters) – The first Jehovah’s Witness detained for extremism in Russia has likened the authorities’ behavior to that of Josef Stalin’s Soviet Union ahead […]
Collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times I woke up today, having dreamt early morning at 4 AM. I was in the biggest DLF Mall of […]
Source: Delaware News Journal Wilmington has agreed to pay $50,000, revise policies and train staff to settle a discrimination lawsuit filed by a Muslim school whose students were asked to […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times If my articles are boring to you, it may be that you need to read more […]
Source: Time By ELI PARISER What broke the Internet? Was it the business model, the tech bros’ myopia, Russian infiltrators, millennials? Lately commentators have heaved a world-weary sigh and pointed at […]
