Imran Khan: Pakistan will no longer be America’s hired gun
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 […]
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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.
Early History of Islam needs fresh appraisal — IX
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 […]
How US billionaires are fuelling the hard-right cause in Britain
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 […]
Golden Age: A Billionaire Backer and the Murky Finances of the AfD
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 […]
Fertile African lands colonisers stole from indigenous communities
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 […]
Germany: Planting Peace Trees
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 […]
MPs visit new Brampton mosque hosted by Muslim women
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 […]
The Pope of Hope: Egypt’s Tawadros II on status of Copts, regional politics and Saudi reforms
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 […]
Francis to become first Pope to visit Arabian Peninsula
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 […]
Hypocrites and the culture of hypocrisy
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 […]
Spare me America’s tears for Jamal Khashoggi – this excuse for Trump-bashing ignores the CIA’s past crimes
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 […]
Mohammed bin Salman’s comeback tour
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 […]
‘We can’t go anywhere’ – Myanmar closes Rohingya camps but ‘entrenches segregation’
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 […]
The man-made humanitarian disaster in Yemen continues
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 […]
Thinly veiled Racism – by Khola Maryam Huebsch
Khola Maryam Hübsch Thinly veiled Racism Our outrage over the sexist Muslim male reveals a need to feel superior. It expresses a brand of cultural chauvinism that co-opts feminism as […]
Hundreds of violent neo-Nazis roam freely in Germany
COMPILED FROM WIRE SERVICES ISTANBUL Germany has been under threat of rising Neo-Nazi presence in German society. Some 470 neo-Nazis, a number of whom are wanted for violent crimes by […]
Turkey seeks arrest of Saudi crown prince aides over Khashoggi
By AFP – Dec 06,2018 -JORDAN TIMES ISTANBUL — A Turkish court issued arrest warrants Wednesday for two suspects close to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman over the murder […]
Blowback from unintended consequences of Bush’s 1991 war continues
Dec 05,2018 -JORDAN TIMES – MICHAEL JANSEN George H.W. Bush, who died last Saturday at the age of 94, has been lauded as a great US president, a humble patrician […]
Nadine Shah: ‘I am just one version of a Muslim woman, and people don’t get to see a lot of my kind’
Elisa Bray meets with the Mercury Prize nominee to discuss Brexit woes, wanting to have children, and why the excessive drinking had to stop @Elisabray The Independent Culture Shah’s music […]
These are the cities that will dominate the global economy in the next 15 years
Despite the west’s experience of managing the process of urbanisation, it doesn’t have all the answers Hamish McRae @TheIndyBusiness The Independent Voices New York will continue to be the world’s largest urban economy in 2035, but Jakarta will have passed Tokyo to become the most populous city. However, […]