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Zia H Shah

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

Pakistan: Diversity in Hypocrisy

Source: LUBP: By Shoaib Mehmood Nagi Shakespeare once said ‘Few love to hear the sins they love to act’. One has to only look at the political opinions of various Pakistanis to corroborate his observation. The phenomenon of hypocrisy in Pakistan is not limited to a specific quadrant on the […]

Only in America

Only in America (I thought any would be immigrants or visitors might like some more information before traveling there:) 1. Only in America……can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance. 2. Only in America……are there handicap parking places in front of a skating rink. 3. Only in […]

Misleading headlines in Fox News: Example: Muslims, Christians targeted by Sudanese strongman al-Bashir in aerial assault

by Joshua Rhett Miller FOX NEWS Sudanese strongman Omar al-Bashir has launched aerial bombardments with increased frequency in the oil-rich Nuba Mountains, where Muslims and Christians alike are being targeted with “tremendous” force, experts told FoxNews.com. The attacks led by al-Bashir, who remains wanted for genocide by the International Criminal […]

Is God Perfect?

Source: NYTimes Author: YORAM HAZONY Is God perfect? You often hear philosophers describe “theism” as the belief in a perfect being — a being whose attributes are said to include being all-powerful, all-knowing, immutable, perfectly good, perfectly simple, and necessarily existent (among others). And today, something like this view is common […]

The law of unintended consequences

Daily Times: Razi Azmi. Netanyahu went to war against Hamas thinking he would destroy this ‘terrorist’ organisation once and for all and earn the gratitude of the Jewish people. He has achieved the opposite  Now, the second Gaza war is over. Who won? Who lost? The biggest losers, no doubt, […]