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
My childhood ignorance of differing Shia and Sunni prayer customs once caused humiliation where today it might risk death Nushin Arbabzadah GUARDIAN CO UK In the Kabul of the 1980s, […]
Planet believed to be six times the size of Earth is named PH1 after Planet Hunters website used by two American volunteers guardian.co.uk, Monday 15 October 2012 A planet with […]
The Rude Awakening by Carl Lindquist http://clindquist-rudeawakening.blogspot.com/2011/12/top-10-list-of-unusual-mormon-beliefs.html?m=1 Top 10 List of Unusual Mormon Beliefs and Practices Obviously, every religion can seem strange to those outside its doors. And we often […]
Source: LUBP Mrs Rabia Imran, daughter of the so called Khadim-e-Aala (in fact Sarparast-e-Aala of PML-N goons and LeJ terrorists) Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, gets an innocent man beaten up by Elite Police in Lahore. His only crime? He refused to serve her during the shop’s off-hours. The bakery worker […]
Source: Ahmaddiyya Muslim Community Press Department UK On 12 October 2012, Canada’s Minister for Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, Jason Kenney MP, visited the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat, Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, at the Fazl Mosque in London. During the hour-long meeting various issues were discussed, including Canada’s forthcoming […]
Source: Reuters.com (Reuters) – Afghanistanhas banned all Pakistani newspapers over what security officials say is anti-government propaganda aimed at Kabul, an interior ministry spokesman said on Saturday, in a move likely to worsen already tense cross-border ties. Pakistani newspapers are usually filled with statements that the Afghan government does not […]
Source: CNN Money/Fortune By Philip Elmer-DeWitt FORTUNE — Developers often complain about the hoops Apple (AAPL) makes them jump through to get their wares into the iOS App Store. But the company has its reasons — besides its 30% cut of the revenue — and one of them was illustrated […]
Source: NY Times: LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Gunmen armed with assault rifles attacked a rural village on Sunday in northern Nigeria, killing at least 24 people, including worshipers leaving a mosque after prayers before dawn, officials said. Read More:
Source: Worldcrunch: PARIS – French police shot and killed a man, and arrested 12 others in countrywide anti-terrorist raids this past weekend. True, this is no terrorist network of the kind that fomented the September 11 attacks in 2001, or in London in 2004. But the small group […]
Source: Microsoft started October with a bang, unveiling Anders Hejlsberg’s newest creation: TypeScript, a superset of Javascript aimed at making the language’s big jobs easier. Key features of TypeScript include: module support class declarations static typing a Visual Studio 2012 plugin S. Somasegar, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Developer Division, […]
Source: Gulf Times By Mizan Rahman The Bangladesh Telecommunications Regulatory Commission’s anti-cyber crime cell has received, in the last nine months, over a thousand complaints, most of which were directed at the popular social networking site Facebook and were lodged by female students, official said yesterday. Bangladesh Computer Security Incident […]
Source: MenaFn (MENAFN – Arab News) The World Bank and Islamic Development Bank have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to set out a framework for collaboration between the two parties and lend support to global, regional and country efforts in the development of Islamic Finance. World Bank Managing Director […]
Source: Worldcrunch By Annette Ramelsberger BONN – “You have to use violence to defend Islamic values?” asks the judge. “Yes, of course,” Murat K. replies. Five months after he attacked police officers with a knife, the 26-year-old Salafist came clean in the courtroom: it was his duty, he said, to […]
Source: TOI Even as German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle, who was on a visit to China, diverted himself to Istanbul in a mission on Saturday aimed at tamping down Turkish-Syrian tensions, Der Spiegel calmly reported that the information about the “non-civilian cargo”, which led to the interception of a Syrian […]
Source: Jakarta Globe: Time and again, when seeming distracted and stumbling, President Barack Obama has pulled himself out of the political mire. His supporters now wonder whether he has it in him again. Obama needs to shake out of a political funk and block resurgent Republican foe Mitt Romney when […]
Source: Indian Newslink via Wasim Sroya: A section of the audience at the 2010 Peace Conference Promotion of goodwill and understanding, respect for all religions, peace and harmony for mankind and interfaith dialogue are among the issues that would influence an important conference in Auckland this week. Ahmadiyya Muslim […]
The Muslim Outlook – by Shahid Pervaiz October 14, 2012 Sometimes it seems overwhelmingly odd as why there exist the strains of hostility amongst the followers of various religions – […]
Analysis by Rossella Lorenzi DISCOVERY NEWS Archaeologists in Guatemala say they have discovered the 7th-century tomb of Lady K’abel, one of the greatest queens of classic Maya civilization. Unearthed during […]
Source: Dawn Author: Shaan Khan Malala Yousufzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl activist shot in the head by the Taliban, is on her way to Britain for treatment as she struggles to overcome her injuries, the Pakistani military said Monday. “It was agreed by the panel of […]
By Indian Newslink Promotion of goodwill and understanding, respect for all religions, peace and harmony for mankind and interfaith dialogue are among the issues that would influence an important conference […]