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
The Iron Dome kept missiles at bay, but another ‘dome’ shields the people from reality by Robert Fisk, The Independent, UK Israelis are congratulating themselves on the success of their Iron Dome missile shield. But across Israel these past years has fallen a different kind of iron dome, one that […]
The people of Huj – now almost forgotten – had helped the Jewish Haganah army escape the British. The thanks they got was to be sent into Gaza as refugees by Robert Fisk, The Independent, UK I think I found the village of Huj this weekend – but the road […]
RT: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has co-authored a book arguing that the world is at a pivotal decision: Whether the Internet will free us, or enslave us. Assange, famous for his ‘hacktivism,’ used a decidedly low-tech medium for his latest polemic. Titled ‘Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet,’ […]
Ahmadiyya Times | News Watch | Int’l Desk. Source/Credit: Usinger Anzeiger | (adapted from translation) By Imran Jattala Presided over by an elected Caliph, the community seeks to reassert the original values of Islam; mercy towards all people, absolute justice, equality between men and women, separation of religion and State, ending of violence in […]
Ahmadiyya Gazette: Ansar Raza. O ye who believe! Surely, the idolaters are unclean. So they shall not approach the Sacred Mosque after this year of theirs. And if you fear poverty, Allāh will enrich you out of His bounty, if He pleases. Surely, Allāh is All-Knowing, Wise. (9:28) Islām is […]
Epigraph: “Surely, the Believers, and the Jews, and the Christians and the Sabians — whichever party from among these truly believes in Allah and the Last Day and does good […]
Nancy Folbre is an economics professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She recently edited and contributed to “For Love and Money: Care Provision in the United States.“ One explanation of Mitt Romney’s defeat in the presidential race focuses on the growing demographic diversity of the electorate. The declining share […]
The Local At least 14 people were killed on Monday when a fire spread through a workshop for people with disabilities in southern Germany. Seven more are said to have been injured. More:
Source: TOI NIGERIA: Two suicide bombers targeted a church inside a military barrack in northern Nigeria today, killing at least 11 people and injuring several others as worshipers were returning after a Sunday mass. The attack occurred at St Andrews Military Protestant Church located inside Armed forces command and Staff […]
The Local: A dog owner got a nasty shock when their four-legged friend discovered a 20cm-long African giant Emperor scorpion while out for a stroll. More:
Chinese flock to elite U.S. schools By Alexis Lai, CNN (CNN) — Jay Lin is the embodiment of the American dream — and what is increasingly a Chinese dream. Originally from Wenzhou […]
Source: Dawn.Com “I am 86 now, too old to pen weekly columns. Besides what’s there to write about with the same old politics and same old politicians. Do you really believe that they will go away? —Dawn.com Photo KARACHI: One of Pakistan’s oldest and most renowned columnists, Ardeshir Cowasjee, passed away […]
Source: Dawn.Com Lamps were put out. The Imam freed his followers of all their obligations and said: “You are free to go now.” This was a lesson in freewill. No one left. This was a tie of love. They all died with him, a lesson in commitment. Lamps were put […]
businessinsider.com: Angela Merkel sought to ease the concerns of Germany’s Jews Sunday over a disputed ruling against circumcision as she became the first chancellor to address the Jewish community’s annual council meeting. […]
Muslims who want to live under Islamic Sharia law were told on Wednesday to get out of Australia, as the government targeted radicals in a bid to head off potential […]
Source: TOI LAHORE: Thirteen people have died in a main Pakistani city after drinking cough syrup suspected of being toxic, police said Monday. The victims were all drug addicts who apparently drank the cough syrup in an attempt to get high, said police officer Multan Khan. Khan said they died […]
Source: TOI JERUSALEM: Israel’s defence minister Ehud Barakon Monday announced he was quitting political life after a decades-long career that also saw him serve as prime minister. Barak, 70, made the surprise announcement at a press conference in Tel Aviv, adding that he would retire from politics after a new […]
Persecutionofahmadies.org: Ahmadis do not have to be criminals, in the normal sense of the word, to end up in prison in Pakistan. The system is designed that their daily religious […]
Express Tribune: ISLAMABAD: Senior journalist and anchor, Hamid Mir, escaped an attempt on his life after explosives planted under his car were defused, Geo News reported on Monday. According to the report, the explosives were in a bag planted under the car. Mir had gone to a nearby market and the bag was […]
Source: The Local “Yolo,” short for “you only live once” has been voted the most popular new German youth expression of the year, the second time in four years that a word derived from English has won. More: