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.
Reuters International FEB 14, 2017 – Security members escort Iraqi teenager Laith Abbas inside a reform centre in Dohuk, Iraq, February 12, 2017. Picture taken February 12, 2017. REUTERS/Azad Lashkari (reuters_tickers) By Michael Georgy DOHUK, Iraq (Reuters) – Wearing funky beads, Laith Abbas comes across as just another Iraqi […]
Reuters International FEB 15, 2017 People walk past a giant banner on a building congratulating U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, in Jerusalem, January 20, 2017. REUTERS/Ammar Awad (reuters_tickers) WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump supports the goal of peace between Israel and the Palestinians, even if it does not […]
Reuters International FEB 14, 2017 – FILE PHOTO:Netherlands’ Party for Freedom (PVV) leader Geert Wilders attends a news conference after a European far-right leaders meeting in Koblenz, Germany, January 21, 2017. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay (reuters_tickers) By Toby Sterling AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Campaigning for the Dutch election kicks off on Wednesday […]
A man from Nebraska has spoken to local press about his change of heart regarding Muslims in the United States. John Dutcher, a resident of Omaha, told KETV news how his prejudice against Muslims had changed when a number of new families from Syria, Afghanistan and elsewhere, moved into his […]
Trump’s Muslim ban was painfully evocative of Jewish stories of migration to the US – or tragic accounts of family members denied entry to the US as refugees, only to be killed in the Holocaust. Dozens of rabbis were recently arrested while demonstrating against the ban outside Trump Tower Rachel Shabi […]
The official reason given for the cancellation is the election in Germany, but German and Israeli sources say the real reason was Berlin’s anger at Israel’s expropriation law. Barak Ravid Feb 13, 2017 German Chancellor Angela Merkel decided to cancel a joint summit with Israel’s government, scheduled for May 10 […]
Caline Malek February 14, 2017 Topics: United Nations About Lana Nusseibeh Lana Nusseibeh was appointed Permanent Representative of the UAE to the United Nations in New York in September 2013. She was elected President of the Executive Board of UN Women last month and also serves as co-chair of […]
Wars and principles and regulations When the Holy Prophet(sa) engaged in a battle, he used to firmly order that: No woman be killed; No children be killed; The old not be impeded; Nothing be said to the refugees, monks or hermits; No person be set on fire; No animal be […]
A speech delivered by Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad Khalifatul Masih IV at the Inter‑religious Consults, Suriname, on 3rd June 1991 Published by: Islam International Publications Ltd. Islamabad, Sheephatch Lane, Tilford, Surrey GU10 2AQ, […]
February 6, 2017 by yalibnan Whatdoes Donald Trump want for America? His supporters don’t know. His party doesn’t know. Even he doesn’t know. If there is a political vision underlying Trumpism, however, the person to ask is not Trump. It’s his éminence grise, Stephen K. Bannon, the chief strategist […]
NIRAJ SRIVASTAVA 5 Years After Gaddafi’s Murder: Libya Destroyed NIRAJ SRIVASTAVA Friday, November 25,2016 BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA: When I arrived in Libya in March 1994 as a middle-ranking diplomat, the country was under UN sanctions related to the 1988 Lockerbie disaster. No flights to and from Libya were permitted; we had […]
Paul HANDLEY AFP February 14, 2017 View photos Donald Trump and Michael Flynn speak at a rally in Colorado in October (AFP Photo/) More Washington (AFP) – President Donald Trump’s national security adviser Michael Flynn, who resigned late Monday over his controversial contacts with Russia, is a former military intelligence chief […]
Controversial bill which critics say targets Muslim worshippers is due to be put before members of the Knesset Bethan McKernan Beirut @mck_beth Israeli ministers have endorsed contentious draft legislation known as the “muezzin bill”, which critics say is designed to silence the Muslim call to prayer. Information released by the […]
If the President toured these Arab dictatorships, he’d feel very much at home. Great security, fantastic police, lots of torture, alternative facts, extremely dodgy elections and massive economic projects which damage the environment but prove absolutely useless Robert Fisk @indyvoices You’d think, given the harsh anti-Muslim Trump administration in Washington, that […]
Reuters International FEB 13, 2017 – Parts of a bulldozer are seen at a farm in the town of Basheeqa, Iraq, February 8, 2017. REUTERS/Ahmed Saad (reuters_tickers) By Michael Georgy and Maha El Dahan QARAQOSH, Iraq/ABU DHABI (Reuters) – Sami Yuhanna was making a decent living as a wheat […]
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL Photo courtesy: PAL-V International B.V. The Dutch company PAL-V International B.V. has officially launched sales for its two commercial models of flying cars this week, promising deliveries of the road and air certificated models by the end of 2018. “After years of hard work, beating the technical […]
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL Published February 11, 2017 AA Photo Talya Özdemir, a 10-year-old Turkish girl became the youngest person to address the United Nations General Assembly on the momentous occasion of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Speaking at the panel titled ‘Gender, Science and Sustainable Development: The […]
Muhammad: Seal of the Prophets ‘Philosopher, orator, apostle, legislator, warrior, conqueror of ideas, restorer of rational dogmas, the founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of one spiritual empire, that is Muhammad. As regards all standards by which human greatness is measured, we may ask, is there any man greater than […]
By RICHARD STENGELFEB. 13, 2017 CreditLinda Huang Radical Islamic extremism. There, I’ve said it. For three years, as under secretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs, I would not and could not utter that phrase. No one in the Obama administration could or did. We used the much […]
Reuters International FEB 12, 2017 – FILE PHOTO:France’s National Front leader Marine Le Pen and Netherlands’ Party for Freedom (PVV) leader Geert Wilders take a Selfie during a European far-right leaders meeting to discuss about the European Union, in Koblenz, Germany, January 21, 2017. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay/File Photo (reuters_tickers) By […]