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.
Officially allies in fighting terrorism, Pakistan and US have a complicated relationship, bound by US’ dependence on Pakistan to supply troops in Afghanistan. World | Reuters | Updated: December 05, […]
Deirdre Shesgreen USA TODAY Published 5:12 PM EST Dec 7, 2018 WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s pick for United Nations ambassador, Heather Nauert, could face a tough Senate confirmation process […]
ANADOLU AGENCY DJIBOUTI “Turkey’s gift to Djibouti”, East Africa’s largest mosque being built in the capital city, is set to be inaugurated in two months’ time. The Turkish Diyanet […]
November 2018 Rizwan Safir – UK The Review of Religions is proud to announce the formation of a new section focusing on our ancient past. This section will explore the […]
SHAKIR HUSAIN December 4, 2018 It is obvious that those responsible for taking Khashoggi’s life had not thought through the consequences of the crime otherwise planned with extreme wickedness. […]
Published December 07,2018 You may wonder which typical Turkish foods to try. In Turkey, authentic meals surround you, here are the best 7 of foods you have to try on […]
Source: Telegraph Fighting America’s war on terror has cost Pakistan its dignity, Imran Khan said By Ben Farmer, Islamabad Pakistan will no longer be America’s “hired gun” to fights its […]
Jinnah, within days of Pakistan’s creation, asked Muhammad Asad to establish the Department of Islamic Reconstruction M Aamer Sarfraz December 7, 2018 Allama Iqbal had lost faith in the […]
George Monbiot That Spiked magazine’s US funding arm received $300,000 from the Charles Koch Foundation suggests a hidden agenda @GeorgeMonbiot Fri 7 Dec 2018 Dark money is among the greatest […]
All eyes are on the AfD’s finances following reports of large donations from Switzerland and Holland. Now, reporting has revealed that the right-wing party has enjoyed big-money support from the […]
by Elizabeth Ofosuah Johnson, at 07:00 am, December 07, 2018 By the 15th century, the Europeans were well established in Africa and started to take the lands from […]
Von Wolfgang Bartels The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Bad Kreuznach, Germany, started an information campaign under the slogan ‘We are all Germany’. Violence in the name of Islam is being […]
Dec 06, 2018 Brampton Guardian A Muslim women’s group opened the doors of a new mosque in Brampton recently to host the then-mayor and other dignitaries at an event […]
Faisal J. Abbas December 04, 2018 Tawadros spoke about the damage inflicted on the Copts in Egypt during the Muslim Brotherhood’s rule from 2012 to 2013 Tawadros is looking […]
By Reuters – Dec 06,2018 -JORDAN TIMES VATICAN CITY — The first visit by a Pope to the Arabian Peninsula will take place in February when Francis travels to Abu […]
Dec 06,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – Marwan M. Obeidat Whether plural or individual, hypocrisy — the contraption of a fake facade of righteousness or virtuousness, hiding real personality, including, among other things, concealment, deceit or fraud, a practice of being involved in the same behaviour or activity for which an individual […]
A generation ago, the CIA’s ‘Operation Phoenix’ torture and assassination programme in Vietnam went way beyond the imaginations of the Saudi intelligence service. And have we forgotten about the thousands […]
By Sarah Yerkes December 6, 2018 As Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) wraps up his two-week tour of the Middle East and North Africa (with a weekend […]
Dec 6, 2018 http://www.swissinfo.ch By Thu Thu Aung and Simon Lewis YANGON (Reuters) – As the world was focused on abortive efforts to begin repatriating hundreds of thousands of Rohingya […]
MERYEM İLAYDA ATLAS @miailayda Children displaced from the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah stand in their shelter in Sana’a, Yemen, Nov. 1. The people of Yemen are struggling to […]