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
Reverts on the Path of Knowledge to Islam By Sumayyah Meehan Thursday, 27 December 2012 00:00 Your reason for seeking knowledge is to please God and draw nearer to Him {And say: “My Lord! Increase me in knowledge} (Ta-Ha 20: 114) What’s the first thing you do after acquiring a new tech […]
BY Maya Shwayder | December 26 2012 10:53 AM Before the June 2012 election in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood was one of the largest pan-Arab political groups that was nonetheless shunted aside, gagged and suppressed. It was outlawed across much of the Middle East, including Egypt. Over the years the Brotherhood was […]
Ex-President George H.W. Bush in intensive care From ASSOCIATED PRESS HOUSTON — Former President George H.W. Bush is being treated in the intensive care unit at a Houston hospital after suffering “a series of setbacks,” including a stubborn fever, his spokesman said. In a brief email Wednesday, Jim McGrath, Bush’s […]
Epigraph: “Say Muhammad, ‘Who is the Lord of the heavens and the earth?’ Say, ‘Allah.’ Say, ‘Have you then taken besides Him helpers who have no power for good or […]
Businessinsider.com: by Laura Templer: Christian, Jewish, and Muslim leaders gathered in Colorado on Monday to launch an official counter movement against the recent trend of plastering extreme Islamaphobic ads — calling Muslims “savages” and showing pictures of the burning World Trade towers — on buses and subway stations. The religious coalition created […]
David Attenborough narrates his unique version of the song ‘What a Wonderful World’ accompanied by images from the BBC’s wildlife and natural history archive. First broadcast as a trail for […]
Source: Guardian By Alok Jha, science correspondent Higgs boson theorist says he agrees with those who find Dawkins’ approach to dealing with believers ’embarrassing’ As public disagreements go, few can […]
Dec 26, 2012 – 22:00 KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Sudan’s President Omar Hassan al-Bashir said on Wednesday he was ready to meet his South Sudanese counterpart Salva Kiir to try to move forward with setting up a demilitarised border zone and restart oil flows. His comments raise the prospect that the […]
by Julia Slater in Basel, swissinfo.ch Dec 24, 2012 – 11:00 Feasting and gift-giving, lighting candles and general revelry: celebrations in late December were described by the Latin poet Catullus as “the best of days”. But he didn’t mean Christmas: he was talking of the Roman festival of Saturnalia. The […]
December 19, 2012 12:47 AM By Erika L. Sanchez The Daily Star Story Summary Of Mexican heritage, Marta Khadija, president of LALMA, La Asociacion Latino Musulmana de America, or The […]
By Bernd Debusmann The Daily Star, Lebanon Story Summary A growing controversy over one of President Barack Obama’s candidates for the top Pentagon job is turning into a test case […]
Dawn: Nadeem F Paracha: When religious extremists assassinated Benazir Bhutto in December 2007 and Bashir Ahmed Bilour in December 2012, my mind kept going back to what some political thinkers had warned about decades ago. Men, whose warnings were not only ignored but labeled as being treacherous and ‘anti-Pakistan.’ For example, the following […]
Source: Daily Times: MOSCOW: Russia’s upper house of parliament on Wednesday unanimously backed a bill barring Americans from adopting Russian children, leaving the controversial measure in the hands of President Vladimir Putin.The vote was the last legislative hurdle for the bill, one of the toughest pieces of anti-US legislation in […]
Source: Daily Times. Sabria Balland Chowdhury In the NRA’s recent press conference, they blamed gun massacres on everything from violent movies to video games but refused to take any responsibility whatsoever We can certainly hope that the Sandy Hook school shootings in Connecticut have finally evoked a moral standing on […]
Source: 3D Mekanlar: Excellent brief history of Masjid Nabawi. For the 3D tour please click in the picture on the right upper flash picture. Still does not fully explain what […]
Source: BBC President Mohammed Morsi has congratulated Egyptians for endorsing a new constitution and urged all parties to join him in a national dialogue. In a TV address to the […]
GTA Muslims: A Priceless Quote from a Confident Muslim Woman “Man in early times was almost naked, and as his intellect evolved he started wearing clothes. What I am today and what I’m wearing represents the highest level of thought and civilization that man has achieved, and is not regressive. It’s the […]
Prologue If the Muslim Times’ highlighted articles are boring to you, it may be that you need to read more of them, as was suggested by John Cage, who was […]
Daily Times: President Barack Obama can navigate the nation back to a course where common decency and civil dialogue are not automatically excluded from politics The looming fiscal cliff has received almost as much publicity as the Mayan prediction of the end of the world. This column has warned that […]
By YAAKOV LAPPIN JERUSALEM POST 12/26/2012 18:43 Israel to begin allowing 20 trucks with construction materials enter Gaza each day; Defense Ministry source says easing of blockade part of ongoing […]