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.
Suspect fired shots at worshippers at Zurich Islamic centre before fleeing scene, leaving victims seriously wounded. Switzerland, a country of some eight million people, reportedly has around 450,000 Muslims [EPA] A man burst into a Muslim prayer hall in the Swiss city of Zurich on Monday and started shooting, injuring […]
Jordan to send ambassador to Iraq, as Baghdad intends to open border for trade By JT – Dec 20,2016 – AMMAN — His Majesty King Abdullah on Monday discussed political and security developments in Iraq with Iraqi political leaders at Al Husseiniya Palace, according to a Royal Court statement. The […]
AFP/DPA/The Local news@thelocal.de 19 December 2016 Photo: DPA At least nine people have died and more than 50 were injured after a truck drove into a Christmas market in Berlin on Monday night. We are shutting down the live updates for the evening. Here’s what we know so far: A […]
NABEEL ANWAR DHAKKU — CHAKWAL: Built in 1860, a historic mosque in Dulmial village was rechristened a ‘place of worship’ in 1974, when Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s government declared Ahmadis to be non-Muslim. The building, which saw mob violence on Dec 12 that left two dead and three injured, may now […]
FRENCH PRESS AGENCY – AFP TUNIS The Tunisian government on Sunday said that foreigners were behind the murder of a Tunisian engineer, after the Palestinian resistance group Hamas said Israel was behind his death. “The investigations concerning the assassination of Tunisian citizen Mohamed Zaouari and the latest findings have proven […]
‘We never thought about using weapons of mass destruction,’ former Iraqi ruler told CIA Will Worley The US “got it wrong” about Saddam Hussein and Iraq, the CIA analyst who interrogated the former dictator has said. John Nixon had numerous conversations with the deposed leader and now says that America was critically […]
Source: THE DAILY SABAH The Eurasia Tunnel, one of Turkey’s most visionary mega projects, which will allow automobiles to pass beneath Istanbul’s Bosporus Strait, opens Tuesday on Dec 20, 2016, […]
By Mohammad Ghazal – Dec 19,2016 – JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — The bus driver was supposed to show up at 7:30am on Sunday to pick up a group of tourists from Amman to Karak. He was late because of a technical problem, which made the tourists a little upset. […]
Reuters International DEC 19, 2016 – A woman sits with her child reading the Koran while waiting to be evacuated with others from a rebel-held sector of eastern Aleppo, Syria December 17, 2016. REUTERS/Abdalrhman Ismail (reuters_tickers) By Lisa Barrington and Suleiman Al-Khalidi BEIRUT/AMMAN (Reuters) – Armed men burned five […]
All civilians trapped in old castle freed — Momani By Rana Husseini – Dec 18,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Ambulances are seen in front of the Italian Hospital in Karak, where some of the injured in a terror attack were evacuated on Sunday (Reuters photo) AMMAN — Four terrorists […]
By AFP – Dec 17,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Smoke rises as Libyan forces allied with the UN-backed government take cover during a battle with Daesh militants in Sirte on October 2 (Reuters photo) BAGHDAD — Multiple ground assaults and a deluge of air strikes shrank the Daesh terror […]
Reuters International DEC 16, 2016 Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan makes a speech during his meeting with mukhtars at the Presidential Palace in Ankara, Turkey, December 14, 2016. Murat Cetinmuhurdar/Presidential Palace/Handout via REUTERS (reuters_tickers) By Andrew Osborn and Nick Tattersall MOSCOW/ISTANBUL (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin said he and his Turkish […]
Source Swiss Info By Klaus Dingwerth, who is assistant professor for political science at the University of St Gallen, Switzerland as well as a non-residential fellow with the Global Public Policy […]
Dec 17,2016 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL US President-elect Donald Trump seems to have some ominous surprises up his sleeve for the Palestinians, in particular, and the Arab world, in general. He asked his long-time adviser and friend David Friedman, a hardline pro-Israel lawyer, to be the US ambassador to Israel. […]
By AFP – Dec 17,2016 – JORDAN TIMES On the eve of International Migrants Day by United Nations, a young Kurdish boy from Iraq queues for food in a camp for migrants in Grand Synthe, France, on Saturday (Reuters photo) WASHINGTON — The United States on Friday more than […]
(Friday, December 16th, 2016 As innocent civilians continue to be slaughtered within the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo, our greatest present-day humanitarian catastrophe can be largely attributed to the fact that the Muslim world has failed the people of Syria. Even though many nations and organizations (especially the United States […]
The concluding address delivered by Hazrat Khalifatul Massih IV at the final session of the Annual Convention of the Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam at Islamabad (Tilford), England on April 7, 1985. This is an English translation of the above address. The original address was in Urdu titled Irfane Khatame-Nabbuwat. We […]
$20.00 Author: Iain Adamson Description: This is the story of an astonishing man. He leads a holy war to unite all the world’s religions under Islam. God speaks to him directly he says and guides all his decisions. When General Zia, back then President of Pakistan, persecuted his followers, he […]
Source: Indian Express The army and Rangers personnel have been deployed in the Dulmiyal village and other parts of the district to control the law and order situation. By: PTI | Lahore | Published:December 16, 2016 About 3,000 people have been booked by police in connection with the attack on […]
1. Muslim educational attainment Among the world’s major religious groups, Muslims have made some of the greatest gains in educational achievement in recent decades. The share of Muslim adults (ages 25 and older) with at least some formal schooling has risen by 25 percentage points in the past three generations, […]