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.
Designed to house 20,000 people, the bunker was built in and over two motorway tunnels. Photo: Unterirdisch Ueberleben Published: 20 Oct 2016 Opened 40 years ago at the height of the Cold War, the Sonnenberg bunker in Lucerne was one of the largest public fallout shelters in the world and […]
SINEM CENGIZ | Published — Saturday 5 November 2016 Sinem Cengiz Last month, while referring to Turkey’s concerns regarding the situation in Iraq to Crimea, Syria to Cyprus, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said: “Turkey is not just Turkey… it is also responsible to the hundreds of millions of our […]
Reuters International NOV 4, 2016 – Police detain Sebahat Tuncel, co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Regions Party (DBP), during a protest against the arrest of Kurdish lawmakers, in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir, Turkey, November 4, 2016. REUTERS/Sertac Kayar (reuters_tickers) DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) – Turkish authorities arrested the leaders of […]
FINAL VERDICT NOV 4, 2016 – 14:51 The Imam Centre in Volketswil, canton Zurich was the planned site of a kindergarten that was denied its operating permit by Switzerland’s highest court (Keystone) Switzerland’s highest court has ruled that canton Zurich correctly denied an Islamic society’s request to open a […]
Nov 03,2016 -JORDAN TIMES – Jonathan Power Many African leaders have been angry for a number of years because the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the affiliated Rwanda and Sierra Leone war crimes courts appear to have focused exclusively on African war criminals — in Rwanda, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Congo, Ivory […]
By JT – Nov 04,2016 – JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — At least two US flight instructors were killed in a shooting at the gate of the King Faisal Airbase in Jafer, Maan, on Friday while they were in a car about to enter the premises, the Jordan News Agency, […]
In the village of Soran, near Hama, and the surrounding area, civilians speak of their loss as part of one battle in Syria’s larger civil war, writes Robert Fisk Robert Fisk Soran, near Hama, Syria @indyvoices Thursday 3 November 2016 The Hamdo family collect what is left of their home Nelofer Pazira […]
Citing an unnamed ultra-Orthodox expert on the seminal ‘Zohar’ work, Marc Zell says Trump campaign staffers in US were ‘amazed’ at the news By Times of Israel staff November 2, 2016 Donald Trump holds a question-and-answer session with Jewish reporters at his offices at Trump Tower, New York, April 14, […]
By Reuters – Nov 02,2016 -JORDAN TIMES People walk past a damaged site after an air strike in the besieged rebel-held town of Douma, eastern Ghouta in Damascus, Syria, on Wednesday (Reuters photo) MOSCOW — Russia on Wednesday told anti-government rebels holed up in Syria’s Aleppo to leave […]
JORDAN TIMES – DAOUD KUTTAB – NOV 3, 2016 November 2 is etched in the minds of Palestinians and Arabs as a dark day. November 2, 2017, will mark the 100th anniversary of the date when a British official promised a Zionist leader a Jewish state in a country that […]
In the village of Soran, near Hama, and the surrounding area, civilians speak of their loss as part of one battle in Syria’s larger civil war, writes Robert Fisk Robert Fisk Soran, near Hama, Syria @indyvoices The Hamdo family collect what is left of their home Nelofer Pazira We arrived so soon […]
NOV. 1, 2016 JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Israeli Nature and Parks Authority forces demolished several graves inside a Palestinian cemetery in occupied East Jerusalem on Tuesday morning, according to local sources. […]
OCT. 30, 2016 (File) RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Israeli authorities have banned 5-year-old Ibrahim from visiting his father, Palestinian Muhammad Ahmad Abd al-Fatah Abu Fanunah, in prison, Abu Fanunah’s wife said to Voice of Prisoners (Sawt al-Asra) radio on Sunday.Umm Mahmoud told the radio station that she has also been banned […]
SHERRILL SUTHERLAND The Globe and Mail Published Tuesday, Nov. 01, 2016 For the past month, the leader of the world’s Ahmadiyya Muslim community has been visiting Canada and Canadian leaders […]
THIA JAMES, SASKATOON STARPHOENIX Published on: November 1, 2016 Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, The Caliph of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community, speaks at the International Centre part of the Jalsa Salana Annual Convention in Toronto on Oct. 7, 2016. DAVE ABEL / DAVE ABEL/TORONTO SUN SHAREADJUSTCOMMENTPRINT The head of the world’s Ahmadiyya […]
Published: November 2, 2016 Movement advocating peace, tolerance, love and understanding will be here on Saturday. AN ISLAMIC religious movement advocating peace, tolerance, love and understanding will be coming to Gisborne to exhibit the Muslim holy scripture, the Quran. Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at describes itself as a revival movement within Islam […]
Caliph Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad touring western Canada this month By Jason Warick, CBC News Posted: Nov 01, 2016 Play Media Caliph Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad denounces extremism 3:20 Muslim leaders are not doing enough to denounce extremism, says the head of the world’s Ahmadiyya Muslims. “We need the message of […]
FAMILY TUSSLES NOV 1, 2016 After a Hutu-led coup in October 1965, King Mwambutsa IV of Burundi withdrew to Switzerland, where he spent the rest of his life and died in 1977 (Keystone) A Geneva court has ruled that the remains of the former king of Burundi, Mwambutsa IV, can stay […]
Grasberg mine in the Indonesian province has been a source of untold wealth for its owners, but local communities say it has brought poverty and oppression The delta of West Papua’s Aikwa river, on Kamoro tribe land. Papuans claim tailing sediment from the mine has suffocated the fish and shrimp […]
Sir Jeremy Greenstock says Britain was not consulted on key postwar decisions and was systematically excluded from meetings Sir Jeremy Greenstock’s book has now been released with Whitehall consent after he abandoned plans to publish it in 2005. Photograph: Shaun Curry/AFP/Getty Images Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor Tuesday 1 November 2016 […]