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: 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 […]
ScienceDaily (Sep. 28, 2012) — Mathematics might seem like an abstract discipline, remote from real-world applications but their equations can significantly help understand and simulate the functioning of nature. Professor Alfio Quarteroni of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL, Switzerland) is leading the Mathcard project in developing mathematical models of the […]
(AFP) / 29 September 2012 Hundreds of Libyans turned over their weapons at collection points in the capital and the eastern city of Benghazi on Saturday following rallies which called […]
More than half of Israelis fear that war with Iran would endanger the Jewish State’s very existence, a new poll has found. by Catrina Stewart, The Independent It is a startling finding that will worry Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has argued that a pre-emptive strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities […]
Israeli President “Bibi” Netanyahu on Guy Fawkes. The super-terrorist plans to blow up parliament and the King; the very nation will be liquidated. Fawkes was a Catholic rather than a Muslim – though Renaissance Europe was pretty good at bestialising both – but what a cartoon! I loved the curly […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD I verbalize my question by quoting a short article from Wikipedia about ‘Verbal abuse.’ I know that today most in the West, care rather little about their religion or the religion of others, but, most of the Western people are kind hearted and do care about the feelings of others. So, my question […]
Source: TOI VATICAN CITY: Pope Benedict XVI’s former butler Paolo Gabriele goes on trial on Saturday for leaking confidential Vatican memos that revealed cloak-and-dagger politics among the pope’s closest aides. A once loyal servant who said he grew disgusted by the “evil and corruption” he witnessed, Gabriele told investigators he […]
Source: Jakarta Globe by Rick Jacobs | September 28, 2012 Two weeks ago, on the morning of Sept. 11, I noticed a woman wearing a traditional Muslim head covering on the packed platform of the train station in Scarsdale, New York. Her attention was focused on a billboard ad […]
The visiting Afghan Public Works Minister Najjebulah Auodji speaks to members of Society of Afghan Engineers in Bay Area. See report page 6. If you like this document, make sure to bookmark it. You can also post/embed it on any website, blog or profile. Simply click ‘Share/Embed’ once you’ve opened […]
Source: ET LAHORE: In a village in Narowal district, a Muslim girl and a Christian boy decided to elope. Now, in the aftermath, 30 Christian families are on the run. Sana, 23, and Chand Masih, 25, eloped from their houses in Gadowal village on September 21, and went to an undisclosed […]
Source: Wimbledon Guardian Thousands of worshippers turned out in force on Friday to hear their spiritual leader condemn violent protests across the world against an anti-Islamic film. Members of the […]
Del Ponte, who has also served as a Swiss ambassador and federal prosecutor, was named on Friday to serve on the commission alongside Vitit Muntarbhorn, a Thai expert and veteran UN investigator, American Karen Abuzayd and Brazilian Paulo Pinheiro. The international inquiry, led by Pinheiro, was set up a year […]
REUTERS ARABNEWS Friday 28 September 2012 LONDON: Too much gold and just nowhere to put it? A high security solution to bullion storage issues is at hand at a secret […]
Monarch says pace of change varies in every nation by Jordan Times | Sep 27, 2012 | http://media.mtvnservices.com/embed/mgid:cms:video:thedailyshow.com:419419 The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political […]