Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Donald Trump led the republican party’s 17-strong 2016 presidential field with the backing of 24 percent […]
Want to add more and better years to your life? Now is the time. We’re living longer than ever: The average American that was born in 2013 will be […]
Geopolitical Weekly AUGUST 11, 2015 | By George Friedman Each year at this time — the anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima — the world pauses. The pause is less to mourn the dead than to debate a moral question: whether the bombing was justified and, by extension, whether the […]
Huff Post: by Antonia Blumberg — But spiritual “distress” tends to have the opposite effect. Religious and spiritual belief is linked to a positive effect on cancer patients’ physical, mental and social well-being, according to a study published in health journal Cancer. A meta-analysis of published studies, which included data on more than 44,000 […]
Those with the greatest faith said they had better physical health, greater ability to carry on doing everyday tasks and fewer physical symptoms of cancer Religion and spirituality were a […]
Nuns of a New Generation Forge Their Own Path Source: NY Times Mechanical bulls, rock-climbing walls, bounce houses, go-karts: Before becoming a nun, Sister Virginia Joy helped insure them all. […]
Thomas Jefferson didn’t just own a Quran — he engaged with Islam and fought to ensure the rights of Muslims By DENISE SPELLBERG Salon: [He] sais “neither Pagan nor Mahamedan [Muslim] […]
Economist: Aug 6th 2015, 15:11 | From the print edition DO FRIENDS of the opposite gender distract teenagers, hampering their academic performance? It may seem obvious, at least to paranoid parents, and yet it is hard to prove. Read more at http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21660556-its-official-having-friends-opposite-sex-bad-childrens-grades#61rgZ88f9wVBwV0G.99 Read more at
Source: Huffington Post By Anantanand Rambachan; Professor of Religion, Saint Olaf College. Latest book,”A Hindu Theology of Liberation.” The recent PEW Research Center findings on America’s religious landscape revealed that approximately 56 million […]
Epigraph: O mankind, We have created you from a male and a female; and We have made you into tribes and sub-tribes that you may recognize one another. Indeed, the […]
There are even Muslims running against each other, Omar Alghabra (Liberal) and Farheen Khan (NDP) in Mississauga Centre, a riding where an estimated 16.5% of eligible voters are Muslim, and […]
Source: Time Magazine Dear presidential candidates: With the first anniversary of the killing of Michael Brown this weekend, America needs to know how the tumultuous events of the last year […]
United Nations committee expresses concern that lack of oversight and safeguarding measures could lead to rights abuses and unlawful deportations A UN human rights body has joined a chorus of […]
As media focuses on the news about “radicalized” Muslim youth, a Huffington Post article has shed some light on stories of successful Canadian Muslims, focusing on the positive contribution Muslim […]
The Huffington Post Canadians are about to witness one of the longest election campaigns in the country’s history as Stephen Harper asked the governor general to dissolve parliament last Sunday. […]
Epigraph: Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? (Matthew 7:3) Source: The Daily […]
theguardian: by Brandon G Withrow — Stepping away from a faith isn’t just a belief sea change. It’s also a large loss – of culture, and sometimes family You’ve likely heard the numbers by now. Approximately 23% of Americansare religiously unaffiliated (atheist, agnostic and “nothing in particular”). This demographic is expected […]
The Huffington Post: ……… That sums up the headlines we’ve seen about Canadian Muslims over the past few months. And when it comes to the reality of our Muslim community, […]
White Americans are the biggest terror threat in the United States, warns a study from the New America Foundation. The Washington-based research group found that since 9/11, almost twice as […]
Even if America strongly believes in religious freedom, the public is still cold in welcoming Muslims. The United States has long been considered as the “Land of the Free” not […]