winnipegfreepress.com: The Canadian Museum for Human Rights is finally open. It’s a magnificent building for a magnificent mission: to promote the idea that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. One of those rights is the right to religion. According to Article 18 of the […]
sfchronicle.com: Thursday, advertisements appeared on San Francisco Muni buses depicting Islam as evil and claiming that devout followers of the faith are bound to be violent. This proclamation is utterly false and an attempt to manipulate the public with Islamophobic vitriol to address the very serious threat posed by the […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times October 16, 2014 “We have nothing to fear but fear itself,” are the famous words of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, […]
Should we really care if more than two consenting adults want to marry each other, or if polygamy advocates see the LGBT movement as an inspiration? A few years ago, […]
businessinsider.com: Infectious diseases seem to come and go, sometimes causing scary outbreaks, while other times seeming to disappear. But some infectious pathogens are always with us, lurking just below the surface of society. Sexually transmitted diseases are one major group of diseases that make for ongoing hidden epidemics: In the […]
Gallup.com: by Nicole Naurath — Muslims Americans more likely than other faith groups to reject attacks on civilians ABU DHABI — Muslim Americans are the staunchest opponents of military attacks on civilians, compared with members of other major religious groups Gallup has studied in the United States. Seventy-eight percent of Muslim […]
Carbon monoxide detectors mandatory in Ontario homes starting Wednesday 680 News Charlene Close and Toronto staff Oct 15, 2014 05:08:37 AM 13 Share A new law making carbon monoxide detectors mandatory in all Ontario homes went into effect on Wednesday. In accordance with Bill 77, detectors will be required near […]
Toronto hospital implants Canada’s first “bionic eye” New retinal surgery gives gift of sight to previously blind patients. Thestar.com Keith Beaty / Toronto Star Order this photo A Toronto hospital has successfully implanted Canada’s first prosthetic eye, giving the gift of sight to a previously blind patient. Ian Nichols is […]
Source: huffingtonpost.com Dear fellow Muslims, You’ve likely heard the old saying, “You can’t wake up someone pretending to be asleep.” This thoughtful proverb crossed my mind as I read new atheist […]
Source: huffingtonpost.com/kashif-n-chaudhry I was born in Pakistan, completed my medical school there and then moved to the United States for higher medical training. I also moved to escape the horrid persecution my Islamic […]
http://www.cnn.com/video/api/embed.html#/video/health/2014/10/15/newday-cohen-second-healthcare-worker-texas-ebola.cnn (CNN) — A second health care worker at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital who cared for Thomas Eric Duncan has tested positive for Ebola, health officials said Wednesday — casting […]
Listen to author’s interview in NPR Thomas Jefferson had a vast personal library reflecting his enormous curiosity about the world. Among his volumes: a Quran purchased in 1765 that informed […]
Courtesy of Hanif Koya, California Author: Denise Spellberg Introduction In this original and illuminating book, Denise A. Spellberg reveals a little-known but crucial dimension of the story of American religious freedom—a […]
By Shireen T. Hunter (source: LobeLog) Throughout the recent handwringing about how the US and other Western countries failed to foresee the emergence of ISIS, one factor has been totally ignored, either intentionally or inadvertently: the impact of Washington’s hostility towards Iran, especially its persistent tendency to treat any anti-Iranian […]
For all his odes to liberal ideals, Maher’s latest effort to demonize Muslims reveals a disturbing, illiberal truth by Myriam Francois-Cerrah Indian author and activist Arundhati Roy once said, “There’s really no such thing as the ‘voiceless.’ There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.” Her words seem […]
FP: Empowering Muslim women is the key to degrading and ultimately destroying medieval and reactionary fanaticism. The Nobel Peace Prize committee rightly cited the work that Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi did to lead the “struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all […]
Fake apologies ask us to pretend that prejudices are shed as easily as coats Recently, Charlotte Lucas – co-founder of Lucas Oil, the corporate namesake of the Indianapolis Colts’ football stadium — took to her Facebook account to comment on unchecked minority rule in America. “I’m sick and tired of minorities […]
Source: Huffington Post By Qasim Rashid, Lawyer, Speaker, Best-Selling Author of “EXTREMIST” Just south of Oklahoma near Round Rock, Texas, an Adopt-a-Highway sign was vandalized last weekend — with the words “Ahmadiyya Muslim” […]
Kristin Szremski is a 53-year-old mom from Palo Hills, Illinois. Born into a Missouri-Synod Lutheran family, she first converted to Catholicism before finding her place in Islam. This year, Szremski […]
Kindly click on the images to zoom them, Jazkallah. Imam Shamshad A. Nasir Shamshad A. Nasir is imam & missionary-in-charge of the Baitul ul Jaam’e Mosque, Glen Ellyn Cell Phone: 909-636-8332 | Email: Shamshadanasir@gmail.com