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
Source: BBC Ireland is on the verge of securing revenue from oil that could run into billions of pounds. Providence Resources Plc, an Irish and UK company, has confirmed its Barryroe site, 30 miles off the Cork coast, should yield 280m barrels of oil. The money generated will depend on […]
COLUMN The Hajj is the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia. It is one of the largest pilgrimages in the world, and is the fifth pillar of Islam, a religious […]
Successful operation: Malala not to be sent abroad for treatment Doctors at CMH remove bullet from Malala’s body near her spinal cord, finished operation at around 5am. By Umer Farooq / Reuters Published: October 10, 2012 Doctors at CMH remove bullet from Malala’s body near her spinal cord, finished operation […]
Archaeologists, anthropologists, and biologists agree: It’s complicated. By Daniel Engber http://www.slate.com What makes us different from all the other animals? Is it our swollen brains, our idle hands, or perhaps […]
Much of the scandalous consequences are attributable to an active history of hostility between the West and the Islam. by Hamid Dabashi Hamid Dabashi is Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Now that the public protest, violent or otherwise, in response to the recent […]
JEDDAH: Fouzia Khan ARABNEWS Wednesday 10 October 2012 This year an estimated 13,800 Chinese pilgrims from 26 different provinces in China will perform Haj. It’s the largest number of Chinese pilgrims to […]
IYADH: MD RASOOLDEEN ARABNEWS Wednesday 10 October 2012 An eminent medical consultant on respiratory diseases advised domestic pilgrims on Monday to take their vaccine against meningitis 10 days before they proceed for Haj. Dr. Naila Abu Jedaie, specialist on chest diseases, was answering calls through the call center of the […]
Written and Collected by Zia H Shah MD The Western civilization is as much based on The Prince, by Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli, published in 1532, as Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, […]
Source: The Local If the government has its way, religious circumcision will remain legal in Germany providing it is carried out to medical standards. Angela Merkel’s cabinet agreed re-drafted legislation on Wednesday. More:
Source: TOI: LOS ANGELES: A 28-year-old man on a plane from Asia was arrested in Los Angeles after he was found wearing body armor and transporting a small arsenal of weapons including a smoke grenade, officials said Tuesday. Yongda Huang Harris, a naturalized US citizen of Chinese descent, faces a […]
Source: Asiatimes: With the blessing of the US and its other North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) partners, as well as its own national legislature if not the entire Turkish population, some of whom have been holding mass rallies in opposition to Ankara’s war policy vis-a-vis Syria, the Turkish government has […]
Source: Asiatimes: Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s visit to Moscow to sign a US$4.2 billion arms deal set the alarm bells ringing in Washington. Maliki is signaling he has had enough of the US and Turkey playing around with his country’s sovereignty – Big Oil will be next to feel […]
Russian TV: A deadly meningitis outbreak that has left eleven dead, 119 infected and up to 13,000 at risk is taking its toll across the US. With symptoms showing up weeks after exposure, many more patients are expected to get sick. The meningitis-tainted steroid shots were dispersed to health care […]
Russian TV: NATO has promised to back Ankara in its escalating conflict with Syria, as Turkey adds 25 new F-16 fighter jets to its border protection force. It follows days […]
Very symbolic that Pakistan cannot take care of its future and it has to be done in Dubai. Heading is my own; Editor Express Tribune: Nation Shocked; PESHAWAR / SWAT: The […]
Source: Toronto Star TORONTO—There was nothing sweet about Kaitlyn Terrana’s 16th birthday. And she has virtually no recollection of her last birthday, her 17th, either. She slept through both of them. At a time when the teenager should be living each day to the fullest, she is trapped in a […]
The Express Tribune: SWAT: The Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) which attacked National Award Peace winner Malala Yousafzai on Tuesday have said that they will target her again if she survives because she was a “secular-minded lady”. A TTP spokesperson told The Express Tribune that this was a warning for all youngsters who were involved […]
Huff Post: Two leading Christian television networks are preparing for the return of Jesus with live streams from the Mount Of Olives. Daystar TV and the Trinity Broadcasting Network have set […]
RT: The United States and Israel are already involved in discussions over how they could soon conduct a joint surgical strike on Iranian nuclear facilities, a source close to the talks tells Foreign Policy magazine. After months of urging from Israeli authorities for the US to intervene in a rumored […]
RT: Pakistan’s capital city Karachi was struck by an outbreak of Naegleria fowleri, also known as ‘brain-eating amoeba.’ The deadly freshwater microbe kills 98 percent of those infected. The source of the infection has yet to be identified. The amoeba is transmitted from contaminated water through the nasal cavity and […]