More Honey, More Money: Iraqi MP Wants to Pay Men for Polygamy
© AFP 2017/ STR MIDDLE EAST 17.03.2017 An Iraqi MP has proposed reducing the number of widows in the country by providing financial incentives for polygamous marriages. © AFP 2017/ […]
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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.
America’s responsibility toward Syrian refugees
Greg Shupak The Electronic Intifada 16 March 2017 US policy has played a role in creating the mass flight of refugees from Syria. Oren ZivActiveStills President Donald Trump’s second major executive order on immigration bans people from six countries with Muslim majorities from entering the United States: Iran, Yemen, Somalia, […]
Albucasis: A Landmark for Arabic and European Surgery
Source: Muslim Heritage By Maria Do Sameiro Barroso This article presents Abu’l-Qasim Khalaf ibn ‘Abbas al-Zaharawi, Arabic أبو القاسم خلف بن عباس الزهراوي, Latin Albucasis (936-1013 A.D.), one of the […]
24 refugees later, Berlin ‘Samaritan’ tells fellow Germans: Don’t be afraid
Six years on from the Syrian revolution, German man who took in 24 refugees tells MEE about how his life was changed Refugees arrive at train station in Germany (AFP) Nadine Dahan Wednesday 15 March 2017 While much coverage of the Syrian conflict, which began six years ago, has […]
The Ahmadis of Algeria: the government’s most convenient security threat?
Despite numbering in the few thousands, the followers of this branch of Islam have been branded a major security threat by the Algerian state. Now, they are facing both a crackdown and a propaganda war. By Jacob Lindelöw Berntson In the last six months, at least 70 individuals belonging to […]
Germany’s Merkel ‘too busy’ to visit Algeria in 2017
March 17, 2017 BERLIN, GERMANY – DECEMBER 23: German Chancellor Angela Merkel holds a press conference at the German Chancellery in Berlin, Germany on December 23, 2016. ( Cüneyt Karadağ – Anadolu Agency ) March 17, 2017 at 3:13 pm 0 SHARES Germany has reportedly declined an invitation for an […]
From the Algerian Press: Security Services Arrest 25 youth, Elders Of Ahmadiyya Followers
2Religious affairs minister: Algeria is protected from extremism 2017/01/15 Mourad.B/English version: Dalila Henac Research and investigation team dismantled, in coordination with other units of the National Gendarmerie, in Biskra (southern Algeria), on Sunday, a network that is affiliated with the Ahmadiyya community, which is made up of 25 people who […]
Two routes to an impasse: Understanding Turkey’s Kurdish policy
Ayşegül Aydın and Cem Emrence December 2016 Download the full paper Kurdish groups in the Middle East are once again occupying global headlines today. While the Western media typically labels them as trustworthy friends in a region rife with enemies and shifting alliances, many regional actors see the Kurds as problematic, […]
Makkah’s clock tower among world’s most expensive skyscrapers
By Food & Travel Desk Published: March 17, 2017 PHOTO: HOTELS.COM Hovering skyscrapers are reshaping skylines across the world’s major cities. Over the last few decades hundreds of skyscrapers have been […]
Israel’s response to UN agency’s ‘apartheid’ finding is a distraction from the real issues
Israel likened the report to a Nazi propaganda publication, rather than focusing on the reasons why its actions are being criticised Rashmee Roshan Lall In response to being called an “apartheid regime” by a UN regional commission, Israel compared the report to Nazi propaganda tabloid Der Sturmer, and foreign ministry spokesman […]
The men in this Karachi neighbourhood don’t let women obtain CNICs
By YUSRA SALIM Published: March 17, 2017 KARACHI: There exist women in Karachi – the most ‘modern’ city of Pakistan perhaps – who are still deprived of franchise: female residents of a neighbourhood in Mauripur are not allowed to obtain Computerised National Identity Cards (CNICs). Mauripur is a suburban area […]
Fear, hunger and destruction in Mosul Old City as IS under pressure
Reuters International MAR 17, 2017 – Displaced Iraqis flee their homes as Iraqi forces battle with Islamic State militants, in western Mosul, Iraq March 14, 2017. Picture taken March 14, 2017. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem (reuters_tickers) By John Davison MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) – After five months of intense fighting, Iraqi forces […]
On anti-Semitism, anti-Islam and fictitious alliances in U.S.
HATEM BAZIAN@hatembazian Protesters holding up signs in a demonstration against U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order banning Muslims from certain countries, Seattle, Jan. 29. It is high time for a courageous political, social, and economic faith-based coalition between American Muslims and Jews (who are aware of the danger of Zionism) […]
58 dead, ‘dozens’ wounded in raids on Aleppo mosque
FRENCH PRESS AGENCY – AFP BEIRUT AA Photo The US military says it carried out an air strike in northern Syria against an Al-Qaeda target, but denies deliberately targeting a mosque where at least 42 people were killed according to an independent monitor. Turkey’s official Anadolu Agency reported that the […]
View from Turkey: Trying to out-smart Wilders did not work
HAKKI ÖCAL@hakkiocal Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte (L) gestures while debating with the Netherlands’ far-right politician Geert Wilders in Rotterdam on March 13, prior to the Dutch parliamentary elections held on March 15. One racist fascist was more than enough in Dutch politics. Rutte lost plain and simple The liberal-turned […]
Israel’s Netanyahu repeats promise to build new West Bank settlement
By Reuters – Mar 16,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Abdullah Haj Mohammad, the head of Jalud village’s council, stands in front of the Jewish settlement unit of Shvut Rachel as he speaks during a tour organised by the Palestinian authorities for ambassadors based in Tel Aviv and consuls based in […]
The world’s most popular countries
THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE By Food & Travel Desk Published: March 13, 2017 PHOTO: EXCLUSIVEPIX MEDIA Sweden, Canada and Switzerland have made it to the top three most popular countries in the world. The Reputation Institute has taken into consideration a number of markers in order to determine which countries have […]
World’s most powerful countries revealed
By News Desk Published: March 17, 2017 PHOTO: REUTERS US News and World Report released its latest edition of ‘Best Countries‘ study where they evaluated 80 countries on a wide range of criteria including citizenship, quality of life and cultural history. Another major marker was ‘power’, which measured how economically and […]
EU warns Erdogan as Turkey-Netherlands crisis deepens
By AFP – Mar 13,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Children ride bicycles past election posters in Volendam on Monday, prior to March 15 Dutch parliamentary elections (AFP photo) ISTANBUL — The European Union on Monday warned President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to avoid inflammatory rhetoric, as a diplomatic crisis between […]
Trump has opened his arms to immigrants, but only if they’re white Canadians
Faced with an avalanche of tourist cancellations from Canada, congressmen are letting Canadians of 55 and over who own or rent property in the US stay there for an extra two months a year Robert Fisk Vancouver @indyvoices Thursday 9 March 2017 Funny how another nation’s sectarian hatred comes seeping […]