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.
Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth Mirza Tahir Ahmad Genetic Engineering N THE FIELD OF GENETIC ENGINEERING, it has today become possible to change certain features of life. But in the age when the following verse was revealed, no one could imagine such a thing in his wildest fancy. Below is […]
Reuters International NOV 27, 2016 – A Kuwaiti woman casts her vote during parliamentary election in a polling station in Kuwait City, Kuwait, November 26, 2016. REUTERS/Stringer (reuters_tickers) By Sami Aboudi and Ahmed Hagagy KUWAIT (Reuters) – Opposition candidates are estimated to have won around 20 seats out of […]
Nov 28,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Adair Turner Donald Trump’s election has been greeted around the world with justifiable bewilderment and fear. His victory — following a fact-free, vicious election campaign — has trashed the brand of American democracy. But while Trump is impulsive and occasionally vindictive — a potentially fatal […]
AFP | Published — Tuesday 29 November 2016 In this Sept. 2, 2015 file photo a migrant family from Afghanistan walk along the border fence after crossing from Serbia, in Asotthalom, Hungary. (AP) BUDAPEST: One of Hungary’s main Muslim organizations decried Monday what it said were “xenophobic” steps taken […]
ARAB NEWS | Published — Friday 18 November 2016 Newly elected OIC Secretary-General Yousef Ahmed Al-Othaimeen. (Photo courtesy of Saudi-US Relations Information Service.) JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia’s former Social Affairs Minister Yousef Ahmed Al-Othaimeen was elected on Thursday as the new secretary-general of the Jeddah-based Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). […]
Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth Mirza Tahir Ahmad Life in the Perspective of Quranic Revelations—A Brief Introductory Chapter HE HOLY QURAN makes a wide range of observations covering the entire span of creative processes pertaining to both the evolution of life and the preparatory stages preceding it. Some of the […]
Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth Mirza Tahir Ahmad The Quran and Extraterrestrial Life HE vision of the universe that the Quran presents is poles apart from the one held by the philosophers and sages of all the past ages. At the time of the Quranic revelation, it was Greek astronomy […]
IMTIAZ ALI — DAWN KARACHI: A member of Ahmadi community was shot dead in suspected sectarian attack in Gulzar-i-Hijri area on Sunday evening, according to Sachal police and the community official. They added that as Shaikh Sajid Mehmood, 55, came out from his home in Kaneez Fatima Society off Superhighway, […]
Exclusive: Speaking for the first time as the bombardment of Aleppo continues, General Jamil Hassan – a man facing sanctions from both the US and EU – says he’s ‘astounded the US and UN make all this effort for this very small district’ Robert Fisk Syria @indyvoices Aleppo’s historic citadel, controlled by […]
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 […]
They’re heavily veiled, believe in polygamy and have to follow thousands of rules. Yet increasing numbers of young and educated British women are converting to Salafism. Academic researcherAnabel Inge managed to gain unprecedented access to them – though at first they mistook her for a spy Anabel Inge Salafism, often […]
DAILY SABAH WITH ANADOLU AGENCY ISTANBUL Published November 22, 2016 Painter and decorative artist Tünzale Memmedzade wrote Quranic verses on silk. Nov. 2016. (AA Photo) Azerbaijani painter and decorative artist Tünzale Memmedzade has transcribed the Quran onto transparent silk pages. Memmedzade, a 33-year-old artist, used 50 meters of transparent black silk, […]
Nov 26,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – EDITORIAL At a press conference held on the sidelines of the Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in Peru last week, US President Barack Obama showed gloom and doom about the Syrian situation and gave the distinct impression that Washington was and is helpless about doing […]
Nov 26,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Mahmoud N. Zidan While driving the other Friday, I could not help but notice the hustle and bustle of olive pickers: the combined joy of their gathering together, eating out under an olive tree, chitchatting, joking and occasionally singing, all of which interspersed with shouts […]
What a beautiful night it was… What a nice dream… What wonderful hopes they were… The whole country was waiting for the decision from Brussels… That night on Oct. 5, 2005, then Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan, insisting on pursuing Turkey’s membership of the European Union, was enshrined in all of […]
Great Britain Scotland To go to the shop, dentist or pub, Foula’s residents have to travel across 20 miles of open ocean. Photographer Jeff J Mitchell visited the Shetland isle to see what it’s really like. By Amanda Ruggeri 22 November 2016 Severe but spectacular Closer to Norway than they […]
Saturday 26 November 2016 leader of Cuban revolution, Fidel Castro Alwaght- The legendary leader of Cuban revolution and former president of the country who was known for leading the anti-US movements in the South American countries, Fidel Castro died, state TV announced on Saturday. The late leader was 90 at the […]
By David Frey Special to The News-Post Nov 18, 2016 Courtesy photo From left, Shahina Bashir, Fauzia Rehan and Nabeela Malik volunteer at the soup kitchen in Frederick as part of their spiritual work. The women were more nervous than usual last Friday as they arrived to serve food at […]
By Arthur Brice, CNN November 26, 2016 Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro dies at 90 02:26 Story highlights Castro dominated the small island nation for decades One of the few people on the planet who could be identified by one name (CNN)Fidel Castro, the Cuban despot who famously proclaimed […]
HILAL KAPLAN@hilal_kaplan The European Parliament (EP) overwhelmingly decided to freeze negotiations on Turkey’s EU accession. Even though the decision is not “legally binding,” the current outcome is more than that. I disagree with EU Affairs Minister Ömer Çelik’s statement that the decision is “null and void.” On the contrary, this […]