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
Businessinsider.com: I’ve heard it said that, if you take a walk around Waikiki, it’s only a matter of time until someone hands you a flyer of scantily clad women clutching handguns, overlaid with English and maybe Japanese text advertising one of the many local shooting ranges. The city’s largest, the […]
By Nasir Gondal MD Unless one came to the United States in the last five years, it is hard to think that one does not know about Shaheen Sweets. It started […]
Guardian: Members of a Muslim sect persecuted in Pakistan have called for action to prevent groups from peddling hate against them in the UK. The Ahmadiyya community in the UK […]
A nurse has been found guilty of the manslaughter of a four-week-old baby who bled to death after a botched home circumcision. Goodluck Caubergs died the day after Grace Adeleye carried out the procedure without anaesthetic and using only a pair of scissors, forceps and olive oil, a trial at […]
Source: Kuwait Times KABUL: Afghan President Hamid Karzai said yesterday a suicide attack that wounded the country’s spy chief was planned in neighbouring Pakistan, and added he would raise the issue with Islamabad. The president did not openly blame Pakistan over the attack on Asadullah Khalid in Kabul on Thursday […]
Posted on 2012-12-11 ( 496 reads ) Quetta : Baloch Human Rights Organisation (BHRO) staged simultaneous protest rallies in front of Quetta Press club and Arts council Karachi on International Day for Human Rights on Monday. A large number of Baloch women and children participated in the protest to urge […]
HealthNews, NewYork Times: The mother was trying to hold the baby still, and I was pulling gently on the ear, angling for a better look at the infant’s eardrum. The wriggling baby didn’t like any of it, and her whimpering quickly turned to full-fledged wails. Suddenly the baby’s 3-year-old brother, […]
Express Tribune: Noman Ansari. How far does religious background, rather than actual character, go towards establishing respect in this country? The news that the plans to rename the Shadman Chowk roundabout in Lahore after historically instrumental freedom fighter Bhagat Singh have been scrapped isn’t surprising, considering the rising level of intolerance in our nation. […]
Epigraph: The Holy Quran equates killing of any innocent human to a genocide, to a holocaust, “We (Allah) prescribed for the children of Israel that whosoever killed a person — […]
Source Yahoo News More than two dozen people, mostly elementary school children, were shot and killed at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school this morning, federal and state sources tell ABC […]
Source: The Economist BANGLADESH suffered a violent birth. In the last days of 1971 the country then called East Pakistan was engulfed by torture, rape, mass-killing and other acts of genocide. The main perpetrators were Pakistani troops bent on preventing secession from “West Pakistan”. But the army had the support […]
Washington Post: By Lonnae O’Neal Parker Beyond the unifying symmetry of the numbers, what binds and animates the new “Changing America: The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863, and the March on Washington, 1963” […]
The European Court of Human Rights Global Post: The European Court of Human Rights made history Thursday by ruling in favor of a Lebanese national who said he was tortured by a […]
Dawn: When one is sitting thousands of miles away from Pakistan, every horrifying story and news event come across as more malicious than ever. Perhaps, living in safer countries, where rights are mutually respected and accepted, puts things into clearer perspective. There are times when I want to question God […]
Source: Kashmir Life and Ahmadiyya Bulletin Germany via Mr Haider Ali Zafar. By Zubair Khan Dr Syed Basharat Ahmed Shah from Bijbehra, now settled in Bonn, Germany, has been honoured with the membership/diplomat ship of Royal College of Veterinary surgeons, United Kingdom. Shah, a scientific consultant working for […]
By Zubair Khan In unfortunate country of Pakistan the defence minister has to appear in the National Assembly to declare that no official department of Pakistan is authorised to consider […]
Source: By Press Trust of India http://ibnlive.in.com/news/politicians-spread-the-poison-of-hindumuslim-divide-katju/310358-3.html Aligarh: Chairman of Press Council of India (PCI) Justice Markanday Katju on Thursday alleged that politicians in independent India “have played a major role in spreading deeper the poison of Hindu-Muslim divide, whose seeds were sown by the British, for serving their own […]
Source: By Dan Evon http://www.inquisitr.com/436952/muslim-students-letter-to-santa-goes-viral/ The fourth grade Muslim student had never written a letter to Santa but did so for a school assignment. An image of the letter was […]
Source: http://presstv.com/detail/2012/12/13/277880/iran-holds-muslim-women-scholar-confab/ Iran has held the International Conference on Muslim Women Scholars, hosting researchers from different countries in the capital city of Tehran, Press TV reports. Scholars from Europe, Africa and Asia have participated in the event to discuss the role of women in science and technology, management and employment, […]
Source: Credit: Eva Bartlett/IPS: By Carey L. Biron: WASHINGTON, Dec 13 2012 (IPS) – Gathering for the first time here in Washington, representatives of the newly established human rights commission of […]