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.
BY CHRIS MAUME, THE INDEPENDENT Oscar Pistorius was not the first in his family to sleep with a gun close to hand. His parents divorced when he was six, and […]
The last divorce from the United Kingdom was painful and acrimonious, but ended in harmony and prosperity. So why should independence north of the border turn out any differently? BY ROBERT FISK, THE INDEPENDENT Seventy per cent of UK citizens in the land voted Yes to independence, they left the […]
Resurrection, reinvention and linguistics. Barack Obama did the lot. And now he’s taking America to war in Syria as well as Iraq. Oh yes, and he’s going to defeat Isis, […]
Source: The Local. The report from the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, which has been seen by the Berliner Morgenpost, showed that of the 378 German Islamists who have headed to Syria since mid-2012 just one in four finished high school. Six percent finished post-school training and […]
Source: Indian Punchline. The fact of the matter is that: a) Pakistan is not living up to China’s high expectations and is gripped with a death wish of its own making that it is unable to shake off; b) Chinese priorities in South Asia have changed and it is not […]
Source: Asia Times By Brian M Downing The four armed groups warring in Iraq – Islamic State (IS), the Kurdish peshmerga, the Iraqi army, and Sunni tribal levies – have strengths and weaknesses. They also have varying levels of foreign support and capacities for cooperation. IS troops have a marked […]
(Reuters) – The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits unexpectedly rose last week, but that probably does not signal a material shift in labor market conditions as claims remain near their pre-recession levels. Initial claims for state unemployment benefits increased 11,000 to a seasonally adjusted 315,000 for […]
A photo showing Swiss President Didier Burkhalter waiting for a train at Neuchâtel station, alone and without bodyguards, made waves on Twitter on Thursday, receiving 800 retweets around the world. […]
by Rami G. Khouri, The Daily Star, Lebanon SUMMARY Sunnis and Shiites, Christians and Muslims, Kurds, Amazigh and Arabs, or any other combination of citizens of different identities have cooperated, inter-married, shared businesses and coexisted respectfully for centuries at the community level all around the region, and this is still […]
Everything you ever wanted to know about the 9/11 conspiracy theory in under 5 minutes. (Watch French, German, Spanish, Italian, Hebrew or Portuguese translations of this video.) TRANSCRIPT: On the […]
Source: nybangla.org পত্রিকা খুললেই দেখা যায়, মধ্যপ্রাচ্যের বিরামহীন সংঘাত আর এদিকে, সাম্প্রতিক সাংবাদিক জেম্স্ ফলীর হত্যাকান্ডসহ আইএসআইএস-এর অবর্ণনীয় নিষ্ঠুর হত্যাযজ্ঞ। এসবের মাঝেই একটা স্বস্তির সংবাদ হচ্ছে লন্ডনের হ্যাম্পশায়ারে গত ২৯-৩১ শে আগস্ট ৯৭ টি দেশ থেকে ৩৩,০০০ এরও অধিক মুসলমানের জমায়ত হয় শান্তির জন্য দোয়া প্রার্থনা করতে এবং সকল প্রকারের […]
232. And know that Allah knows what is in your minds; so beware of it. [2:236] And there shall be no blame on you in throwing out a hint regarding a proposal of marriage to these women or in keeping the desire hidden in your minds. Allah knows that you […]
by ABDULATEEF AL-MULHIM ARABNEWS.COM Beyond any shadow of doubt, people judge others by their behavior not by their faith. So, who is a Muslim? A Muslim is any individual who proclaims Shahadah. He testifies that there is no God but Allah and Muhammad (peace be upon him) is His messenger. […]
SUMMARY BY Jeffrey D. Sachs| The Daily Star It is time for the United States and other powers to let the Middle East govern itself in line with national sovereignty and the United Nations Charter. As the U.S. contemplates yet another round of military action in Iraq and intervention in […]
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Israel has illegally coerced almost 7,000 African migrants into returning to their home countries, where some face persecution, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday. “Israel’s convoluted legal rules thwart Eritrean and Sudanese asylum seekers’ attempts to secure protection under Israeli and international law,” New York-based HRW said in […]
PARIS — The Muslim Council in France, home to Europe’s largest Islamic minority, denounced the persecution of Middle East Christians on Tuesday and said mosques across the country would pray […]
Tens of student and staff members from the college were killed during the 51-day Israeli war over the Gaza Strip Dozens of students at the Gaza College for Applied Sciences […]
Published: 08 Sep 2014 THELOCAL.CH The jihadist militants who have seized large swaths of Iraq and Syria are intent upon creating “a house of blood”, the UN’s new human rights […]
Source: Indian Punchline The signs are that Sharif’s opponent Imran Khan got the message that no one wants an ‘Arab Spring’ in Pakistan and, furthermore, that a few thousand people in a country with a population of 180 million people cannot stage a color revolution without the sponsorship of a […]