If the Las Vegas Killers Were Muslims, We’d Call Them Terrorists
Source: The Atlantic, June 2014 If a 22-year-old Muslim man stabbed his roommates to death in their sleep, embarked on a killing spree, and claimed in written and video manifestos […]
Examining Both Sides: Freedom of Speech and Its Limitations?
Epigraphs: And if you are in doubt as to what We have sent down to Our servant (Muhammad), then produce a Chapter like it, and call upon your helpers beside […]
Charles Darwin: An Epiphany for the Muslims, A Catastrophe for the Christians
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The National Museum of Natural History, located on the National Mall just across from the Smithsonian castle, is America’s […]
Book Review: The Dark Box: A Secret History of Confession
Epigraph: And those who call not on any other God along with Allah, nor kill a person that Allah has forbidden except for just cause, nor commit adultery (or fornication), […]
Exposing Creationism of Zakir Naik, Tahir ul Qadari, Yusuf Estes and Harun Yahya
Additional Reading: Challenging Ben Carson to a Written Debate About Facts of Evolution from Molecular Biology Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times I […]
3 Major Stumbling Blocks in the Science and Religion Debate
Huff Post: by Rabbi Geoffrey A. Mitelman — Why is the discourse about science and religion so utterly unproductive? Almost every day, we hear about school boards fighting against scientific literacy, or screeds about how religion brainwashes our children. Why is it so hard for us to talk about religion and science in any meaningful […]
Pope Francis Says ‘Door Is Always Open’ to Rethink Priestly Celibacy
Epigraph: “And one of His Signs is this, that He has created wives for you from among yourselves that you may find peace of mind in them, and He has […]
The Arab-Israeli conflict comes to the Metro buses
Source: The Washington Post BY GLENN KESSLER May 21 at 6:00 am A reader called the other day, asking for a fact check of a bus ad that called for ending U.S. aid to Islamic countries. It turns out the ad, sponsored by the American Freedom Defense Initiative, was in […]
The Last Supper: A Fiction Opposing the Account of Garden of Gethsemane
Epigraph: Then whoso does an atom’s weight of good will see it, and whoso does an atom’s weight of evil will also see it. (Al Quran 99:8-9) By Zia H […]
Is Richard Dawkins leading people to Jesus or Muhammad?
Epigraph: And most of them follow nothing but conjecture. Surely, conjecture avails nothing against truth. Indeed, Allah is well aware of what they do. And this Quran is not such […]
Every Thing You Wanted to Know about Alcohol and Addiction
Epigraph: They ask thee concerning wine and the game of hazard. Say: ‘In both there is great sin and also some advantages for men; but their sin is greater than […]
Da Vinci code and the search for the Holy Grail
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The character Sir Leigh Teabing, in the famous novel ‘the Da Vinci code,’ by Dan Brown, says, […]
Debunking the Extremist Myth That Islam is Anti-Jewish
Source: Time By Qasim Rashid: He is an attorney, author, and national spokesperson for Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA. His upcoming book,EXTREMIST: A Response to Geert Wilders & Terrorists Everywhere, is due […]
Alcohol kills one person every 10 seconds worldwide: WHO
Epigraph: They ask thee concerning wine and the game of hazard. Say: ‘In both there is great sin and also some advantages for men; but their sin is greater than […]
The Holy Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) and Leo Tolstoy
By Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Famous Russian author Count Leo Tolstoy read the English translation of The Philosophy of the Teachings of Islam, by the […]
Video: The Transcendent God of Abrahamic Faiths Does Exist: The Kalam Cosmological Argument
Epigraph: He is Allah, the Creator, the Maker, the Fashioner. His are the most beautiful names. All that is in the heavens and the earth glorifies Him, and He is […]
Decline of religious belief means we need more exorcists, say Catholics
Telegraph UK: By Nick Squires, Rome A six-day meeting in Rome aims to train about 200 Roman Catholic priests from more than 30 countries in how to cast out evil from people […]
Pastors Ordained by God to Demystify Christianity
Collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times If the works of the following six writers, who are former pastors or nun are read, with due […]
Alislam-eGazette Publishes an Historic Collection about Christianity: How Jesus Became God?
Alislam-eGazette is an international electronic publication of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, since 2007, with more than 40,000 subscribers. This month it published an historic collection of articles about Christianity. Earlier this […]
Briton jailed in Pakistan for ‘posing as Muslim’ tells of ordeal
Epigraph: The Arabs of the desert say, ‘We believe.’ Say, “You have not believed yet; but rather say, ‘We have accepted Islam,’ for the true belief has not yet entered into your hearts.” […]