Mosque vandalism hurts all
Ottawa Citizen: We recently conducted an interfaith event called Children of Abraham with Imam Limame of the Outaouais Islamic Centre. In attendance were members of our three congregations including the […]
Jesus’ miracle: Surviving the Cross
By Zia H Shah Jews were not expecting a suffering Messiah or one who will die on a cross, as Deuteronomy said, “And if a man have committed a sin […]
Religious Beliefs Battle Hypertension, Norwegian Study of Church Attendance Suggests
ScienceDaily (Dec. 23, 2011) — Does a belief in God confer any health benefits? With the help of a large Norwegian longitudinal health study called HUNT, researchers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) were able to find a clear relationship between time spent in church and lower blood […]
Fetal alcohol syndrome
According to Encyclopedia Britannica: “Even moderate consumption of alcohol during pregnancy, however, may be associated with milder symptoms of FAS, and women are often counseled to abstain from imbibing any amount of alcohol shortly before and during pregnancy. It is also often advised to prolong this period of abstinence throughout […]
Andrew Dickson White: Author of A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom
Collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times George Santayana is well known for the saying, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” If we […]
Binge Drinking: moderation is a myth hard to sustain
Contents Contents Health effects Prevalence of binge drinking See also References From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, my highlights and commentary are in read: Binge drinking is the modern definition of drinking alcoholic beverages with the primary intention of becoming intoxicated by heavy consumption of alcohol over a short period of […]
A Muslim Honors National Bible Week
Source / Courtesy: The Huffington Post By Harris Zafar For those who may not know, we are in the midst of National Bible Week, sponsored by the National Bible Association. This is a week, especially identified to raise awareness of the Bible’s importance and relevance to the nation and the […]
Do Christians believe in atheists? UBC study finds believers distrust atheists as much as rapists
Religious believers distrust atheists more than members of other religious groups, gays and feminists, according to a new study by University of B.C. researchers. The only group the study’s participants […]
A watershed moment for China: Islam or Christianity?
By Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Like it or not, but Islam and Christianity have been two missionary religions, which have been struggling to win […]
Recruiting the four Horsemen of Neo-atheism into Cavalry of Islam
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, an 1887 painting by Victor Vasnetsov. Christopher Hitchens died on December 15, 2011. My condolences to his family and friends. From here on any blunt […]
Buddha: A Witness against Pauline Dogma
As all humans are God’s creation, it stands to reason that God not only guided people in the Middle East through Abraham, Isaac, David, Solomon, Jeremiah, John the Baptist and Jesus, but, He also guided other people through prophets like Confucius, Buddha and Zoroaster. If this be true there should […]
Deism, Liberal Protestantism or Natural Religion
To look for common thread between the Christian and the Muslim tradition one should start at Deism. One should start with President Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Payne. There will be a lot in their views that a Muslim and a Christian could agree to and from there one […]
Not possible to refuse Muhammad rationally: Analyzing William Montgomery Watt
William Montgomery Watt called Muhammad, may peace be on him, ‘one of the greatest sons of Adam,’ he regarded the Holy Quran as divinely inspired, though not infallible, yet he continued to be an apologist for Christianity all his life. Is there any rational way to reconcile Watt’s views? The […]
Israel ministry waits for Jewish ruling on letting women eulogize
Ministerial committee to advance status of women decided recently that Religious Services Ministry should amend burial society licenses so that women may accompany dead to graves, eulogize them at funerals. […]
Are There Really No Other Reasons To Be Good Other Than A Fear Of Going To Hell?
NPR just did a story on the prevalence of hell in 2011. Harold Camping, for example, predicted that everyone but a few chosen Christians were going to hell on May 21 (and then again on October 21.) And a movie featured hell. And a bestseller featured hell. And that bestseller floated some controversial […]
Veil issue is out of control: LETTER OF THE DAY
By: Maidah Ahmad Source: the Barrie Examiner (Re: ‘Canada gets it right with veil rules’ in the Dec. 13 edition of the Examiner) I believe in modesty and therefore I […]
Birthplace of Jesus: site of clashes
Source / Courtesy: Yahoo News It was when clergymen of three groups convened to clean a holy shrine dedicated as birthplace of Jesus Christ that a brawl broke out when […]
What is Morality?
Source / Courtesy: Muslim Sunrise By Lubna Roohi Malik The Holy Qur’an lays out three basic states of man. These three states separate man from animals and spiritual men from moral men. These three states are: the natural state, the moral state, and the spiritual state. Man begins in the […]
Unity of God and superiority of Islam
By: Laiq Ahmed Atif, President Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Malta Some time ago, during a discussion with friend, we came to know of a woman from Australia, who’s sole mission was […]
Without Roots: The West, Relativism, Christianity, Islam?
Book by Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) and Marcello Pera Reviewed and refuted by Dr. Naseer Tahir This book is a compilation of a dialogue between his Holiness Pope Benedict […]