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
RT: Tens of thousands of rioters left a trail of destruction in southeastern Bangladesh as they torched Buddhist temples and homes near the town of Ramu. The violence was sparked by a photo posted on Facebook that allegedly insulted Islam. A 25,000-strong mob set fire to at least five temples […]
The Muslim Outlook – by Shahid Pervaiz September 30, 2012 During the years 610 and 624 A.D. the City of Mecca experienced two profiles, absolutely contrary to each other. One of the Prophet of Islam – Muhammad son of Abdullah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) and the […]
Lutf ur Rehman MD Just a few weeks ago an obscure video emerged on the You Tube which portrayed Prophet Muhammad (saw) in a derogatory way. Obviously every Muslim who watched this video was offended. Once some religious Imam got involved in some Muslim country, this obscure video became an […]
ARAB NEWS Sunday 30 September 2012 JEDDAH: Over the past decade, Saudi Arabia has been the largest source of donations from Islamic states and royal families to British universities, much of which is devoted to the study of Islam, the Middle East and Arabic literature. A large share of this […]
BAKU: Israel’s “go-it-alone” option to attack Iran’s nuclear sites has set the Middle East on edge and unsettled its main ally at the height of a U.S. presidential election campaign. […]
NADIM AL-HAMID ARABNEWS Sunday 30 September 2012 MAKKAH: The government is working on introducing an e-track monitoring system while developing centers of inspection and screening at the entrance of Makkah to prevent undocumented pilgrims from entering the holy sites, Makkah Gov. Prince Khaled Al-Faisal said yesterday. The governor was launching […]
ARAB NEWS Sunday 30 September 2012 JEDDAH: Shariah experts on financial matters declare that local banks are committing a crime by seizing the deposits in accounts that had not been accessed in the past five years. The experts demand that agencies such as the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (SAMA) take […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD First of all, let me applaud our great country, USA, it gives us freedoms, for an ordinary citizen like me, without any […]
NY Times: REFORMERS within the Roman Catholic Church have been calling for the ordination of women as priests. The Vatican, however, refuses to consider the possibility and uses its power to silence those who speak out. Catholic clergy in Europe, Australia and the United States who have voiced public support […]
http://www.greaterkashmir.com/news/2012/Sep/30/justice-altamas-kabir-is-new-chief-justice-of-india-37.asp New Delhi, Sep 29: Justice Altmas Kabir, the seniormost judge of the Supreme Court, was Saturday sworn in as the 39th Chief Justice of India. He was administered the oath of the office by President Pranab Mukherjee. Justice Kabir has succeeds S.H. Kapadia, who demitted office Saturday. He will […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD The recent notoriety of an anti-Islam film, all over the world, has drawn various reactions from people of all walks of life. His […]
Source: LUBP Finally, the cat is out of the bag. Since his patronage by General Zia-ul-Haq, Nawaz Sharif has acted as a poodle of Saudi Salafists and was also in romance with Osama bin Laden. In the last few years, PML-N and its various leaders (Shahbaz Sharif, Rana Sanullah) have […]
Source: Express Tribune ISLAMABAD: Art can be effective in highlighting and combating intolerance in the society. This was the message on display at the Virsa Museum on Saturday, where young artists exhibited the artwork they had created during a week-long workshop. The workshop, “Face Off 2,” was organised by the Hunerkada […]
Source: Spiegel-Germany By Özlem Gezer and Barbara Hardinghaus Djamila Grossman/ DER SPIEGEL Salafist men wear beards, hand out copies of the Koran and cause headaches for Germany’s domestic intelligence agency. But how do the women feel? SPIEGEL spends a weekend with two veiled women and learns about their vision of […]
Russian TV: The Syrian insurgency will never win its war because its means are unsupported even among the opposition, political analyst Dan Glazebrook told RT. But thanks to a flood of weapons from the West, they will continue to destabilize the country. Syria, Glazebrook says, is the only link keeping Western […]
Source: The Hindu Ensure that no innocent has the feeling of sufferance only because ‘my name is Khan, but I am not a terrorist,’ Bench tells Police No innocent person should be branded a terrorist and put behind bars simply because he belongs to a minority community, the Supreme Court […]
Express Tribune: In an extraordinary turn of events, Section 295-A was used to register a blasphemy case against Muslim men for damaging a Hindu temple during riots on Ishq-e-Rasool Day. Section 295-A is the lesser known, non Islam-specific clause of the country’s notorious blasphemy law. The Shri Krishna Bhagwan Mandir, […]
Source: Khaleej Times The $1 trillion global Islamic finance industry is set to double in size between 2011 and 2015, recording an annual 20 per cent growth driven by increasing demand for this “credible alternative” to conventional banking in the GCC and Asia. “The global crisis faced by conventional finance […]
RT: A court in the Chechen capital Grozny has ruled the ‘Innocence of Muslims’ as extremist material, allowing the authorities to block access to it all over the Russian Federation. Chechen Minister for Ethnic Policy, Press and Information, Murat Tagirov, explained the court had established that further distribution of the […]
The Mysterious Blanket Octopus The blanket octopus is perhaps the only creature on earth aside from man that truly appreciates a sense of drama. For example, most animals use things like poisons, sprays or smells as defensive mechanisms to ward off attackers. Not the blanket octopus. The blanket octopus instead […]