The Essential Black Muslim Reading List
Black Muslims are not lost in history, even if their history has been disregarded. By Vanessa Taylor February 26, 2019 In 2018, the Council on American-Islamic Relations reported that anti-Muslim […]
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Rafiq A. Tschannen
Rafiq A. Tschannen is a Swiss national. He converted to Islam and joined the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community at the age of 16 after reading the German translation of the Holy Qur'an. He worked in 15 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Caribbean, first as Finance Director in the private industry and later as Chief Executive Officer of NGOs and International Governmental Organizations. He is now devoting his time to The Muslim Times as Editor for Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Palestine and Switzerland and as Associate Chief Editor.
Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib show Muslim women don’t need saving
The two US congresswomen are shattering all kinds of damaging stereotypes about Muslim women. by Sahar Aziz 26 Feb 2019 US congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib were sworn into […]
George Soros: Europe, please wake up
Feb 27,2019 – Jordan Times – Goerge Soros MUNICH — Europe is sleepwalking into oblivion, and the people of Europe need to wake up before it is too late. If they do not, the European Union will go the way of the Soviet Union in 1991. Neither our leaders nor […]
Change in Israel has proved impossible over the decades
Feb 27,2019 -JORDAN TIMES – MICHAEL JANSEN A leftist Israeli singer warned during a performance last weekend that the next Israeli leader could be Yigal Amir, the man serving a life […]
Address root causes of refugee problem
Feb 27,2019 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL The Warsaw meeting on the refugee crisis in the Middle East and, indeed, elsewhere in the world ended on a positive note, calling for […]
After ‘caliphate’ debacle, wives of militants cling to children
By AFP – Feb 27,2019 – JORDAN TIMES Civilians evacuated from the Daesh group’s embattled holdout of Baghouz wait at a screening area held by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces during […]
Chagos Islanders remind us that Britain is a shameful coloniser, not a colony
Afua Hirsch A court victory by dispossessed people strikes at the heart of British delusions of grandeur Wed 27 Feb 2019 ‘Wrongs stretching back centuries.’ Chagos islanders protest outside […]
Who will pull India and Pakistan back from the edge this time?
The US has usually been the decisive voice of calm, but its influence has waned under Trump Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor Wed 27 Feb 2019 Pakistani protesters burn an […]
IDENTITY POLITICS: Should detainees in Syria and Iraq lose their Swiss rights?
By Daniel Warner THIS CONTENT WAS PUBLISHED ON FEBRUARY 25, 2019 A handcuffed Islamic State suspect sits outside his house in a village near Mosul, Iraq, in October 2016 (Keystone) My […]
Mahershala Ali, The First Muslim Actor To Win Two Oscars, Paid Tribute To Jinnah While Accepting His Award
Source: Mango Baaz By Arslan Athar In 2017, Mahershala Ali made history by being the first African American man to win an Oscar, on top of which he was the […]
TUNISIAN & EGYPTIAN ACTIVISTS CALL FOR POLYGAMY TO SOLVE ‘SPINSTER CRISIS’
Jerusalem Post “If some people condemn polygynous marriages it is because of imperialist and colonialist attitudes toward Muslim women”- Svetlana Peshkova, associate professor at the University of New Hampshire. BY […]
What should be done in the Middle East? Ask the Romans
The more you travel, the more you realise the obvious, says Robert Fisk: globalisation is nothing new. To fix today’s crises, we must look at the fall of the world’s […]
Polygamist family tries to cast practice in a more normal light
February 25, 2019 RAPID CITY, SD (KOTA/Gray News) – Polygamy is illegal in all 50 states, but for three people in South Dakota, the law is not standing in […]
Mahershala Ali wins best supporting actor Oscar for Green Book
Source: The Guardian Mahershala Ali has won the Oscar for best supporting actor for his role as Don Shirley in Green Book in the 91st Academy Awards. This is Ali’s second […]
‘Tit-for-tat steps’ toward a nuclear war
HAKKI ÖCAL@hakkiocal Published24.02.2019 Russian President Vladimir Putin’s response to reports that the U.S. would deploy short-range missiles has strong warnings about how they could counter this move. Those missiles, […]
100 Years Ago… – Our London Letter
A letter written for the Review of Religions recounting some of Hazrat Mufti Muhammad Sadiq’sra experiences whilst serving in England as a missionary of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat. This letter […]
The Virtue Of The Five Daily Prayers
Hazrat Abu Hurairah, Allah be pleased with him, narrates that the Holy Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, said: “Do you think that if there was […]
Showdown in Munich
Feb 24,2019 -JORDAN TIMES – CARL BILDT MUNICH — It was at the 2007 Munich Security Conference that Russian President Vladimir Putin first signalled a cooling of Russian-Western relations. Soon […]
No regrets for woman who stuck by Daesh through defeats
By Reuters – Feb 23,2019 – JORDAN TIMES Women and children are searched by fighters with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, after fleeing the Daesh group’s last holdout of Baghouz, in Syria’s […]
New attempts to impose ‘regional settlement’
Feb 24,2019 – JORDAN TIMES – AMER AL SABAILEH Heading into the final year of his first term in office, US President Donald Trump will be pursuing a regional settlement […]