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
NBC Producer Aarne Heikkila recently traveled to Yiwu, China, a city renowned for its 70,000 wholesale vendors selling everything from plastic figurines to rubber bands, jewelry to exercise books. Recently […]
Credit: Belief CNN via Wasim Sroya By Reza Sayah, CNN Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) – An 11-year-old girl is being accused of blasphemy in Pakistan. Her accusers says she burned pages from the Quran, Islam’s holy book. Now, she is being detained by authorities, and her family appears to be on […]
by Daniele Mariani, swissinfo.ch Switzerland has always been the crossroads of Europe and today there are “cultural routes” commemorating the historic highways and byways through the country. It is becoming […]
AYA BATRAWY | AP ARABNEWS Friday 24 August 2012 CAIRO: Several thousand Egyptians rallied Friday in the first significant protests against the country’s Islamist President Muhammad Mursi, accusing him and his Muslim Brotherhood group of trying to monopolize power. The main protest in Cairo, which counted around 3,000 people and […]
by George S. Hishmeh | Aug 23, 2012 | JORDAN TIMES It is a fact of life that in the campaign for presidential election in the US, held once every four years, foreign policy is not a contentious issue. This time around, however, the policies of Israel, a revered ally […]
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Daily Telegraph: Judging by the rhetorical fusillades exchanged between Israel and Iran, the threat of war between the two adversaries becomes greater day by day. Meanwhile, the chances of formal […]
Global Post: Germany has taken the biggest strike in its history against neo-Nazis. More than 900 police officers raided about 150 properties where members of the neo-Nazi groups live.The raids […]
NY Times: Biologists using tools developed for drawing evolutionary family trees say that they have solved a longstanding problem in archaeology: the origin of the Indo-European family of languages. Multimedia […]
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Express Tribune: Asma Jahangir. The incarceration of an 11-year-old on charges of blasphemy and threats to her life, the shaving of the eyebrows and the head of a tailor for being tardy […]
RT: Anders Behring Breivik refused to appeal a prison sentence that could keep him locked up for life, saying it would legitimize Norway’s legal system. Having been found sane, he apologized to militant nationalists for “not killing more”. In an often harrowing 13-month legal proceeding which found Berivik guilty of […]
Source: Wheels.ca There have been 14 pedestrians killed in Toronto this year. Drivers must drive safely, but pedestrians need to behave responsibly, too. If you are walking and have the right-of-way, you need to think about what could happen to you if you are hit by a car. Keep […]
Source: CBC News The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency erased 14 years of Lance Armstrong’s career Friday — including his record seven Tour de France titles — and banned him for life from the sport that made him a hero to millions of cancer survivors after concluding he used banned substances. USADA said it […]
Credit: Jakarta Globe. A cleric takes out two candies; unwraps one of them and throws them both onto the floor. He asks: “If you have to choose, which candy will you pick? Of course, you’ll take the wrapped one because it’s the clean one. In Islam, we protect our women […]
Credit: Jakarta Globe. Sukabumi, West Java. Indonesia’s highest clerical body says more than 100 followers of a minority Islamic sect in Sukabumi have apologized for their “misguided” religious practices, following the alleged killing of a mainstream Muslim cleric and the arrest of the sect’s leader. The Indonesian Council of Ulema […]
What’s Facebook stock really worth? If the social network can return to the margins it enjoyed before its IPO, we’ll be looking at a company with solid opportunities for continued growth I first predicted the social boom’s bust in June 2011 in a column at Seeking Alpha. I even called […]
Credit: Let Us Build Pakistan (LUBP) By: Zubair Khan For many years now Pakistan seems to be engulfed with ever increasing internal/external disturbances, turmoil and natural calamities. These internal/external disturbances, turmoil and natural calamities jolt the country either in the shape of terrorist attacks, sectarian based killings or in the […]
Source: NY Times. ISHWARDI, Bangladesh — The air thickened with tear gas as police and paramilitary officers jogged into the Ishwardi Export Processing Zone firing rubber bullets and swinging cane poles. Panicked factory workers tried to flee. A seamstress crumpled to the ground, knocked unconscious by a shot in […]
New orders for long-lasting manufactured goods surged in the United States in July, the Commerce Department said Friday, but a decline in a gauge of planned business spending pointed to slowing growth in the factory sector. Durable goods orders jumped 4.2 percent on strong demand for civilian aircraft after an […]