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 Vatican has long maintained a hardline stance against gay marriage, but over the last few days, the Holy See has intensified its anti-gay agitprop, vowing to fight LGBT marriage equality around the world. According to Reuters, the governing body of the Catholic Church launched an anti-gay media campaign over […]
Source: BBC Workers have sealed off the tomb of the former Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, in Ramallah in preparation for the possible exhumation of his body. Officials plan to dig up his remains in the coming weeks to allow scientists to ascertain whether his death in Paris in 2004 was […]
All the great radical clerics have gone, bar one. There’s Omar Bakri Muhammad, the “Tottenham Ayatollah” who raged against the Spice Girls and other manifestations of decadent Britain (I’m sort […]
by Lolita Baldur, Huffington Post WASHINGTON — A senior U.S. official says Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has demoted the former head of U.S. Africa Command who was accused of spending […]
By Peter Eigen, Special to CNN Editor’s note: Peter Eigen is a member of the Africa Progress Panel, chaired by Kofi Annan. He is the founder and chair of the Advisory Council, Transparency International, and chairman of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative. The views expressed are the author’s own. China’s […]
Source: Yahoo News PHOENIX (Reuters) – An Arizona woman, in despair at the re-election of Democratic President Barack Obama, ran down her husband with the family car in suburban Phoenix […]
Source: Allafrica.com via Wasim Sroya: Last week, the Ahmadiyya High School at Gomoa Postin held a Speech and Prize-Giving Day to mark 40 years of its establishment. According to Mr. […]
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He says that we can draw our inspiration from our scriptures but we have to translate the message into a language that is understood by other fellow citizens from different […]
By: Muhammad Umar Source: The Review of Religions May/June 1993 Vol. LXXXVIII No. 5/6 http://www.alislam.org/library/links/in_vedas.html Almighty God has provided for all our physical needs. The Holy Quran says: He it is Who created for you all that is in the earth. (2:30) And He has subjected to you whatever is in […]
Right Side News 12 November 2012 By Soeren Kern The statements of Mark Elchardus, author of a 426 page study, who linked Islam with anti-Semitism, earned him a lawsuit filed by […]
Epigraph: “If we could view Muhammad as we do any other important historical figure we would surely consider him to be one of the greatest geniuses the world has known.” Karen Armstrong Source: Islam is Peace Website Innocence of Muhammad: An in-depth Response to Recent Events Recently a film named Innocence of […]
By Alan Boswell McClatchy Newspapers NAIROBI, Kenya — Earlier this summer, Mali’s Islamist militant northern rebels abandoned their southernmost position, the town of Douentza, some 100 miles northeast up the road from Mopti, where the Malian army had retreated this spring after being routed out of the northern two-thirds of […]
The Geneva-based International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) has launched a new website designed to help families dispersed by conflict and catastrophe find each other. The site, familylinks.icrc.org, will […]
The Arab League has welcomed the formation of a new anti-Damascus opposition bloc, and recognized the so-called Syrian National Council (SNC) as the representative of the Syrian people. On Sunday, Syrian oppositionists agreed to unify the multiple military councils in command of the foreign-backed insurgents inside Syria under pressure from […]
By Barbara Lochbihler The Daily Star, Lebanon “Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come,” the American poet Carl Sandburg wrote hopefully in 1936. His sentiment seems more apt than ever nowadays, but not because humanity has turned pacifistic. Rather, wars are increasingly fought remotely, with drones – or […]
Story Summary by David Ignatius, The Daily Star, Lebanon Petraeus may have seemed larger than life in uniform, but beneath the ribbons he was a very human story. Petraeus’ 14-month tenure as CIA director was short and, compared to his rocket-like ascent to a four-star rank in the Army, something […]
Story Summary Aware of the danger but drawn by curiosity, men huddled on a rooftop and gawped as artillery rounds crashed into the earth, yards from the flimsy fence that separates this Turkish border town from Syria. In the 20 months since the revolt against President Bashar al-Assad began, one […]
by Ami Teibel, The Daily Star, Lebanon Story Summary Israel is considering resuming its contentious practice of assassinating militant leaders in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip in an effort to halt intensified rocket attacks on Israel’s south, according to defense officials. With Israeli elections two months away, rocket barrages from Gaza […]
Huff Post: Aamir Hussain. On Nov. 13, 2012, people around the world will celebrate Diwali, the festival of lights. Although the holiday is mainly observed by Hindus, Jains and Sikhs, […]