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.
Don’t tell me today that Islamophobia doesn’t exist, or that it’s been overplayed by Muslims ‘playing the victim’. If anything, Muslims are wary of reporting hate crimes against their communities […]
JUN 15, 2017 – Tama Vakeesan was born in Switzerland – to Tamil parents from Sri Lanka. Tama’s mum, who was a structural draughtswoman back home in Colombo, found a job as a cleaner in Switzerland. She has given up on attempts to arrange a marriage for her daughter. […]
HAKKI ÖCAL @hakkiocal Even Twitter has suspended Al Jazeera’s account. Google has erased all links to the stories that Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and Saudi King Salman’s 30-year-old son Mohammed had been secretly cooking up Qatar invasion plans. It all looked like a fait accompli, “Qatar is a small […]
Source: Independent Direct funding, food, fuel and medical supplies allegedly provided by Israeli state to keep Isis and Iranian-allied forces in neighbouring civil war at bay Bethan McKernan Beirut @mck_beth […]
It’s been known that Israeli hospitals have treated wounded Syrian fighters, but Wall Street Journal report uncovers direct support in cash, without which fighters say they ‘wouldn’t have survived’ Haaretz Jun 19, 2017 Israel has been secretly providing aid to Syrian rebels in the Golan Heights for years with the […]
By AFP – Jun 19,2017 – JORDAN TIMES This image grab taken from a propaganda video released on July 5, 2014 by Al Furqan Media allegedly shows the leader […]
By AFP – Jun 19,2017 – JORDAN TIMES An Iraqi soldier frisks a displaced Iraqi man at a temporary camp in the compound of the closed Nineveh International Hotel in Mosul on Friday which was recovered by Iraqi troops from the Daesh group earlier in the year (AFP photo) […]
Local By Faiz Siddiqui, Julie Zauzmer and Sarah Pulliam Bailey June 18 at 11:00 PM Police found remains Sunday thought to be those of a missing Virginia teenager who they […]
A van ploughed into a crowd on Seven Sisters Road near Finsbury Park Mosque at around 20 past midnight Muslims were leaving taraweeh, late night prayers observed during the festival […]
Jun 19,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Project Syndicate Last month, Chinese President Xi Jinping presided over a heavily orchestrated “Belt and Road” forum in Beijing. The two-day event attracted 29 heads […]
Follow the developments as one person is arrested after a vehicle struck pedestrians in Seven Sisters Road, north London LIVE Updated 8m ago Police and ambulance crews on the scene in Finsbury Park. Photograph: REX/Shutterstock Bonnie Malkin Monday 19 June 2017 04.22 BSTFirst published on Monday 19 June 201701.51 BST Show […]
Reuters International JUN 16, 2017 A Syrian boy runs with the others, who say they are returning to Syria ahead of the Eid al-Fitr, near the Turkish Cilvegozu border gate, located opposite of Syrian crossing point Bab al-Hawa in Reyhanli, in the southern Hatay province, Turkey, June 15, 2017. […]
Jun 16,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Rami G. Khouri The dispute between Saudi Arabia/United Arab Emirates and Qatar has added major new developments and regional dynamics to existing dramatic situations across the Middle East — especially in Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Libya and Palestine. Diving deep into any of these situations inevitably […]
AFP news@thelocal.ch 17 June 2017 The talks are aimed at ending a war that has killed more than 320,000 people since 2011. Photo: Delil Suleiman/AFP A fresh round of UN-sponsored Syria peace talks will begin on July 10th in Geneva, the UN envoy said Saturday, amid slim hopes for progress […]
The Promised Messiah (as) has said that in order to have true Taqwa, one must instill all good morals in one’s self. Therefore, a believer should try to adopt all […]
Jun 16,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Fifty years after the Six-Day War, which marked the beginning of Israel’s occupation of East Jerusalem and the West Bank, the Middle East remains a region in seemingly perpetual crisis. So it is no surprise that, when addressing the region, politicians, diplomats, and the donor […]
Beginning the month of Ramadhan Abu Huraira relates that the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, said: start the month after sighting the new moon and end it at the next sighting. If you are unable to observe it by reason of the sky being […]
Allah says in the Qur’an: The Night of Decree is better than a thousand months. The angels and the Spirit descend therein by permission of their Lord for every matter. Peace it is until the emergence of dawn. [Qur’an: 97:3-5] The blessed Laylatul Qadr can be found in any of the last […]
Suggested reading by the Muslim Times: This Ramadan Learn Quran from 50 Translations, Rather Than Just One Although the immense blessings of Ramadan are well known, the last ten nights of Ramadan are even more important and even more blessed than the rest of Ramadan. In these ten nights is […]
Reuters International JUN 16, 2017 FILE PHOTO – A sign adorns the security fence near shelters inside the Manus Island detention centre in Papua New Guinea, February 11, 2017. Behrouz Boochani/Handout via REUTERS/File photo (reuters_tickers) By Colin Packham SYDNEY (Reuters) – The United States will tell dozens of refugees […]