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
Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the spiritual leader of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, presides over a sermon to his followers. Speaking from an Islamic perspective, we should strive for the entire […]
The proportion of young offenders in England and Wales describing themselves as Muslim has risen. One in five males in young offender institutions (YOIs) identified themselves as Muslim in 2011/12, […]
France24: Two organisations – the Algerian Democratic Union for Peace and Progress (RDAP) and the Organisation of Arab Union – are claiming a total of €780,000 in costs and damages, according to AFP. The organisations say the court action is to “defend and support Islamic and/or Arabic people”. According to […]
The Holy Quran itself had predicted a remarkable teacher of the Scripture in the Latter days. It reads in Surah Al Jumu’ah: He (Allah) it is Who has raised among […]
Source: Daily Times: By: Gulmina Bilal Ahmad A country that still lacks an effective anti-terrorism law cannot complain about such incidents When an individual comes to the end of his/her journey in this world, he/she is buried in a grave with an inscription marking his/her last resting place. But is […]
Source: Guardian 155MW plant being developed by a British company is expected to create hundreds of jobs, increase electricity capacity and cut emissions Blue Energy constructed a solar park near […]
Source: ZDnet Dropbox might have just scored a major win against Google — at least as far as personnel goes. The cloud storage provider just hired Guido Van Rossum, creator of the Python programming language. Dropbox confirmed the news in a blog post on Friday, as founder and CEO Drew […]
Source: CNN (CNN) — Ghana extended voting into a second day Saturday in areas where election materials arrived late or glitches with a new biometric identification system caused delays. There were reported cases of biometric machines malfunctioning or failing to recognize voters’ fingerprints in the pivotal presidential and parliamentary election, […]
Political Islam in the Middle East Interviewee: Reza Aslan, Adjunct Senior Fellow Interviewer: Toni Johnson, Deputy Editor The Arab Spring has spurred the election of three Islamist-led governments in Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya. CFR’s Reza Aslan, an expert in religion and foreign policy, says Islamist parties initiallybenefited from being the most organized […]
Source: Guardian UK By Giles Fraser Martha Nussbaum and the new religious intolerance ‘Is it right to allow nuns to teach in full habit but to ban Muslim teachers wearing […]
Russian TV: A suspected burglar called 911 after the homeowner whose house he allegedly broke into held him at gunpoint and demanded to know what he was doing in the house. At around 12:30 a.m. in Springtown, Texas, 41-year-old Christopher Lance Moore broke into the house of James Gerow and […]
Source: Express Tribune by Khaled Ahmad: Ijazul Haq, son of army chief General Zia, has accused Zia’s then vice-chief General Aslam Beg of being a part of the conspiracy to kill his father. He appeared on Geo TV on December 1, 2012, and said he was sorry that General Hameed Gul, who was the […]
Daily Times: Mohammad Ahmad. Both the targeted communities have nothing in common except that both despise violence and work in their own ways to bring man closer to God December 3, 2012 will be remembered in history as a black day for Jinnah’s Pakistan. Two separate incidents occurred in Lahore […]
http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/apps/cvp/3.0/swf/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed&contentId=world/2012/12/07/quest-london-hospital-suicide.cnn London (CNN) — A nurse at the hospital that was duped by a prank call from two Australian radio DJs concerning Prince William’s pregnant wife, Catherine, has apparently committed suicide, the hospital confirmed Friday. The nurse “was recently the victim of a hoax call,” King Edward VII Hospital said in […]
Source: CNN (CNN) — Ninety passengers aboard an Egypt Air flight from Cairo to Kuwait could have used actor Samuel L. Jackson this week after a snake reportedly bit a Jordanian man who smuggled the reptile onboard. Jackson’s character in the movie “Snakes on a Plane” tries to figure out […]
Source: The Local Germany’s Roman Catholic Church revealed on Friday that at least 66 clergy members had been accused of sexually abusing children and adults over a 10-year period, with most of the victims male. The findings were part of a scientific study ordered after the Church was thrown into […]
Source: Ghana Time Rawlings casting his vote Finally it is here! The judgment day has certainly dawned as over 14 million Ghanaian registered voters head to 26,000 polling stations across the country to decide who should administer the affairs of the oil and gold rich nation. Though eight respected politicians […]
Source: Jakarta Globe Peshawar, Pakistan. The Pakistani Taliban has set up a page on Facebook to recruit enthusiasts to write for a quarterly magazine and to edit video, a spokesman confirmed on Friday. The Umar Media TTP page, which has more than 270 likes, appears to have been created in […]