The Muslim Times

By Rafiq A. Tschannen on March 18, 2013 ( Leave a comment )

Hundreds of New Yorkers protest political unrest in Bangladesh

source: pix11.com http://landing.newsinc.com/wpix/video.html?freewheel=91044&sitesection=wpix&VID=24614910 http://embed.newsinc.com/Single/iframe.html?WID=1&VID=24614910&freewheel=69016&sitesection=wpix&width=601&height=338 NEW YORK (PIX11)- Hundreds of protesters gathered in front of the United Nations today. The group, predominantly Bangladeshi-Americans, came together over political unrest in Bangladesh. Life in the small South-Asian country has been disrupted over the past several months, many blaming Jamaat-e-Islami militant political group. The protesters outside of the […]

By zakariavirk on March 18, 2013 ( 6 Comments )

How I became a scientist by Dr. Mansoora Shamim

Promoted Post: Dr. Maurice Bucaille’s Analysis of the Glorious Quran — A Three-Minute Reading Presented by Zia H Shah MD Dr. Mansoora Shamim is a Pakistani physicist who worked on the discovery of Higgs Boson. Speech delivered on March 1, in Bensheim Germany by Dr Mansoora Shamim, a scientist at CERN […]

By Zia H Shah on March 18, 2013 ( 1 Comment )

Tracking Unitarian Tradition in Christianity: The Cathars

Collected by Zia H Shah MD Whatever the details of Cathars beliefs may be, it is certain that they did not believe in Jesus as the son of God or […]

By Zia H Shah on March 18, 2013 ( 2 Comments )

Those Who Cannot Remember the Past and the Cathars …

Collected by Zia H Shah MD Religious fanaticism and forcing of ones beliefs on others is a bad news for the whole of humanity, whether it comes from the Mullahs […]

By Dr. Abdul Alim on March 18, 2013 ( Leave a comment )

Elections: Only two Kinds of Pakistanis- Ahmadis or Non Ahmadis

COMMENT : Are Pakistan’s non-Muslims ‘dhimmis’? — Yasser Latif Hamdani No Pakistani is a dhimmi. All of us, whatever our faith, are equal citizens with equal obligations and equal responsibilities As Pakistan has mercifully completed one complete democratic cycle and is now heading towards, hopefully, a second one, one hopes that […]

By Dr. Abdul Alim on March 18, 2013 ( Leave a comment )

Suicidal Bacteria: Unicellular Organisms Occasionally Poison Themselves With a Toxin

Source: ScienceDaily. Mar. 15, 2013 — The cyanobacterium Synechocystis produces toxins that often lead to its own demise. The biologists Stefan Kopfmann and Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hess from the University of Freiburg have determined the logic governing this mechanism. Their findings have been published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry(JBC) and PLoS ONE. […]

By Dr. Abdul Alim on March 18, 2013 ( 3 Comments )

Britain and Islam

Source: Huff Post, by Matthew Goodwin. Behind a large Christian majority, and excluding the non-religious, the census reveals that Muslims are the second largest religious group, and are also the fastest growing. There are now more than 2.7million Muslims in England and Wales, an increase of over one million since […]

By Dr. Abdul Alim on March 18, 2013 ( Leave a comment )

The Christians of Pakistan mean nothing to the Pope

Express Tribune Blogs: By Rohan Emmanuel: The last Pope, Benedict XVI, elected at the age of 78, was the oldest person to have been elected as pope since 1730. In February […]

By Dr. Abdul Alim on March 18, 2013 ( Leave a comment )

Minorities in Pakistan should be Called “Non Muslim Pakistanis”

Dawn: Muneeb says blasphemy accused should be tried by FSC LAHORE: Religious scholars belonging to the Sunni school of thought have proposed that accused in blasphemy cases should be tried by the Federal Shariat Court (FSC) and the changes introduced by former president Gen (retd) Musharraf’s regime in the registration […]

By Zia H Shah on March 18, 2013 ( Leave a comment )

Video: Spiritual Leadership, Is the Pope Elected by God?

Additional Reading Tracking Unitarian Tradition in Christianity Belfast Telegraph: ‘World Muslim leader congratulates Pope Francis and the Catholic Church’ Introducing Islam to Pope Francis

By Rafiq A. Tschannen on March 17, 2013 ( 1 Comment )

Joke of the week – the old lady and the groceries …

An elderly lady was well-known for her Iman and for her confidence in talking about it. She would stand in front of her house and say Alhamdulilah “Allah be praised” to all those who passed by. Next door to her lived an atheist who would get so angry at her […]

By Rafiq A. Tschannen on March 17, 2013 ( 3 Comments )

Joke of the Day – the old and the new Imam

An Imam shocked his community when he announced that he was resigning from that particular Masjid and moving to a drier climate. After the session, a very distraught lady came to the Imam with tears in her eyes, “Oh, Imam, we are going to miss you so much. We don’t […]

By Rafiq A. Tschannen on March 17, 2013 ( 1 Comment )

Costly Iraq war left US no stronger in Middle East (but allowed Israel to continue its settlement construction)

AFP | Mar 17, 2013 | JORDAN TIMES WASHINGTON — The US-led invasion of Iraq overthrew a dictator, but 10 years on the war is seen to have destabilised the Middle East, exposed the limits of military power and left America no stronger than before. With US forces having withdrawn […]

By Rafiq A. Tschannen on March 17, 2013 ( 1 Comment )

Jordan downplays tensions with Damascus

by Taylor Luck, Jordan Times AMMAN — Jordan downplayed reports of rising tensions with Damascus on Sunday, refuting accusations by Syrian officials of Jordanian support for rebel forces. Minister of […]

By Rafiq A. Tschannen on March 17, 2013 ( Leave a comment )

Born in war and poverty, youth don’t abandon Iraq (ten years after US invasion)

BAGHDAD: The 21-year-old college student in Baghdad lost her father during the Iraq War to gunmen from a rival Muslim sect. Now she dreams of an Iraq where all people […]

By Rafiq A. Tschannen on March 17, 2013 ( Leave a comment )

Is This Where the Third Intifada Will Start?

By BEN EHRENREICH NEW YORK TIMES On the evening of Feb. 10, the living room of Bassem Tamimi’s house in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh was filled with […]

By Zia H Shah on March 17, 2013 ( 1 Comment )

Tracking Unitarian Tradition in Christianity

Jefferson Memorial in Washington DC President Thomas Jefferson — Was he a monotheist? By Zia H Shah MD Source / Courtesy: Review of Religions and Alislam.org. First published in […]

By Zia H Shah on March 17, 2013 ( 2 Comments )

President Thomas Jefferson — Was he a monotheist?

By Zia H Shah MD Source / Courtesy: Review of Religions and Alislam.org. First published in 2007. A compelling argument that Thomas Jefferson negated belief in the divinity of Jesus […]

By Zia H Shah on March 17, 2013 ( 20 Comments )

William Lane Craig’s Confession: ‘If we Examine Trinity, through the lens of the Old Testament, It is not Believable!’

William Lane Craig is one of the leading Christian apologists and it is useful for the Unitarians to have his confession, which I have paraphrased a little, to keep it short: ‘If we Examine Trinity, through the lens of the Old Testament, it is not Believable!’ You can watch the […]

By Zia H Shah on March 17, 2013 ( 2 Comments )

The Great Debate: Is Jesus God? ( 1 of 3 ) Sir Anthony Buzzard vs Dr. James White

God the Father is referred to as God more than 1300 times in the Bible. References to Jesus as God are a couple or very few at best and are contextual misinterpretations or later interpolations. Sir Anthony Buzzard states in the very beginning that Unity of a God is a […]

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