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.
Cultured and consensual, the Portuguese politician has had the perfect preparation for the United Nations’ top job Antonio Guterres will take over on 1 January. Photograph: Mario Cruz/EPA Angelique Chrisafis andJulian Borger Sunday 1 January 2017 When António Guterres resigned halfway through his second term as Portuguese prime minister in […]
Reuters International JAN 1, 2017 An injured woman is carried to an ambulance from a nightclub where a gun attack took place during a New Year party in Istanbul, Turkey, January 1, 2017. Murat Ergin/Ihlas News Agency via REUTERS (reuters_tickers) By Humeyra Pamuk and Nick Tattersall ISTANBUL (Reuters) – […]
VERIFICATION By Geraldine Wong Sak Hoi DEC 21, 2016 Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, California: the tech giant has announced plans to limit the spread of fake news, but whether it’ll succeed remains to be seen. (Keystone) Swiss and European researchers are working on algorithms to detect misinformation circulating […]
German Chancellor Angela Merkel poses for photographs after the television recording of her annual New Year’s speech at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, December 30, 2016. REUTERS/Markus Schreiber/Pool (reuters_tickers) By Joseph Nasr BERLIN (Reuters) – Islamist terrorism is the biggest test facing Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday in […]
On arrival in his cell, the Al Jazeera correspondent Mohamed Fahmy discovered that he was imprisoned with men whom he had interviewed only a few months earlier as members of the Morsi government Robert Fisk @indyvoice To interview a jihadi is one thing, to live among jihadis quite another. To share their prison […]
VOTE FEBRUARY 12 Making it easier for young foreigners to become Swiss By Urs Geiser DEC 29, 2016 Applications for a Swiss passport may take a long time and be quite expensive under the regular procedure (Keystone) Should grandchildren of immigrants have privileged access to a Swiss passport? The political […]
Published December 30th, 2016 A Palestinian woman lies on the ground after she was shot and wounded by Israeli security forces while approaching the Qalandia checkpoint with a knife, between Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank on December 30, 2016, according to Israeli police. (AFP/Abbas Momani) A Palestinian woman was […]
A Jewish bride sits next to her groom during the Mitzvah Tans dance ritual following their wedding in an ultra-orthodox neighbourhood in Jerusalem. (AFP/File) Each year, a number of Israeli rabbis affiliated with the rabbinate give permission for dozens of Orthodox Jewish men to take a second wife, despite the […]
Dec 29,2016 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL US Secretary of State John Kerry outlined his vision for peace between Palestinians and Israelis in the boldest manner yet. His blueprint for peace entails Israeli withdrawal from Palestinian lands and Jerusalem as the shared capital of the two sides that would have to […]
By JT – Dec 29,2016 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL AMMAN — The government on Thursday strongly condemned Israeli’s provocative policies as the occupation state frequently allows Jewish extremists to storm the compound of Al Aqsa Mosque/Al Haram Al Sharif. Al Haram Al Sharif is the third holiest site in […]
Nigel Farage is not a Nazi and nor is Donald Trump. But what is terrifying – and deeply akin to fascism – is our ability to ‘think’ our way from truth into lies Robert Fisk @indyvoices Thursday 29 December 2016 We do not live in a “post-truth” world, neither in the Middle East nor in […]
Professor Abdus Salam This short article was written by Dr. Abdus Salam at the age of 26, when he was a professor of mathematics at Government College, Lahore, in 1951. Professor Salam took the position of Chair of Theoretical Physics at Imperial College, London, in 1957 and was later […]
Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as The Review of Religions, January 1997 Translated by Amatul-Hadi Ahmad On the evening of 16 August 1902, after the evening prayer, the Promised Messiah (as), as was his practice, sat down with his companions, for general conversation and discussion. Someone presented him with a note […]
İLNUR ÇEVIK@ilnurcevik Chicago – U.S. Sümeyye Erdoğan Bayraktar, vice president of the Turkish Women’s Democratic Association (KADEM) and the daughter of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, addressed a huge gathering of Muslims of northern America in Chicago on Tuesday (early Wednesday in Turkey), which clearly showed that the Muslims of the […]
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL Armed men wearing YPG uniform identified by Syrian Democratic forces as US special operations ride in the back of a pickup truck in the village of Fatisah in the northern Syrian province of Raqqa on May 25, 2016. (AFP Photo) President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is right in […]
Ahmadi Muslims hold the unique belief that Jesus (peace be upon him) survived the crucifixion and traveled towards India to continue his ministry among the Lost Tribes of Israel. Furthermore, they claim that his tomb, containing his body, has been recently re-discovered in India where it can be seen to this day. Ahmadi […]
DEC. 28, 2016 JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and Palestine Sheikh Mohammed Hussein warned in statement Wednesday that Israeli authorities were going “too far” with excavation and construction activities in the Old City of occupied East Jerusalem, saying that the digging endangered the lives and properties of Jerusalemites.Hussein added […]
Pakistan has a long road ahead in term of healing the wounds of its minority population December 24, 2016 Haris Raja Pakistan has a dark history of persecution against the Ahmadiyya community. Since its inception the right wing extremists have been causing agitations and inciting harsh treatment against Ahmadis based […]
Reuters International DEC 28, 2016 – A general view shows damage in the Old City of Aleppo, Syria December 13, 2016. REUTERS/Omar Sanadiki (reuters_tickers) By Orhan Coskun and Ellen Francis ANKARA/BEIRUT (Reuters) – Turkey and Russia have prepared an agreement for a ceasefire in Syria, Turkey’s foreign minister said […]
REFORMATION ANNIVERSARY Defining Protestant identity By Olivier Pauchard DEC 28, 2016 – Attempts by Martin Luther (1483-1546) to reform the church from neighbouring Germany found fertile soil in Switzerland. (akg-images / Doris Poklekowski) The year 2017 will mark the 500th anniversary of the publication of Martin Luther’s theses that sparked […]