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.
JORDAN TIMES – RAMZY BAROUD Ban Ki-moon’s second term as secretary general of the United Nations is ending this December. He was an ideal man for the job as far as the United States and its allies are concerned. Of course, there will always be other Ban Ki-moons. In fact, […]
Sep 27,2016 -JORDAN TIMES – OSAMA AL SHARIF Sunday’s gunning down of Nahed Hattar, a controversial leftist political activist and journalist, in front of a courthouse in Amman has shocked Jordanians. It was the first assassination of someone on the basis of his political beliefs and daring opinions in the […]
‘We have to knock the hell out of Isis – and we have to do it fast,’ Trump told the world. Well, sure, but haven’t we all been knocking the hell out of Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Syria, even Lebanon, and achieving the constant rebirth of ever more vicious warriors, of which […]
US Secretary of State defends diplomatic efforts as Aleppo burns under a ferocious Russian-backed attack by the Syrian regime Bethan McKernan Beirut The US has been boxed into a corner in the face of a huge Russian-backed military escalation in the Syrian civil war, several experts have said. US Secretary […]
SEPT. 26, 2016 GAZA (Ma’an) — Israeli forces have prevented a Palestinian woman from leaving the blockaded Gaza Strip through the Erez crossing for a medical exam at Israel’s Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer, Tel Aviv.According to statement from the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PHCR) released Monday, 52-year […]
SEPT. 27, 2016 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli authorities carried out a large number of demolitions in occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank on Tuesday, destroying two family apartment buildings, a classroom, a restaurant, four water cisterns, and parts of a home in the latest instances of a policy which […]
By RAMZY MARDINISEPT. 27, 2016 Photo Peshmerga forces during an operation to liberate villages under the control of the Islamic State southeast of Mosul, Iraq, in August. CreditAndrea Dicenzo/European Pressphoto Agency ERBIL, Iraq — A military push to recapture Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, and the rest of Nineveh Province […]
By Raed Omari – Sep 26,2016 – JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — The government-owned National Electric Power Company (NEPCO) on Monday signed an agreement with Noble Energy under which the latter will provide 40 per cent of the Kingdom’s electricity-generating needs. In remarks to The Jordan Times on Monday, NEPCO […]
Sep 25,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Amer Al Sabaileh A new phase in the Syrian crisis was triggered by the Turkish intervention in the north of the country. While there are many reasons for this Turkish move, it very quickly ended the dream of a Kurdish state, which has been floated recently. […]
Sep 26,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – JAMES J. ZOGBY Elliott Abrams, a former Reagan and Bush administration official and a former colleague on the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), wrote the article “The United States bars Christian, not Muslim, refugees from Syria”, provocative, as its title suggests, but […]
By JT – Sep 26,2016 – JORDAN TIMES His Majesty King Abdullah speaks to Scott Pelley of CBS’ ’60 Minutes’ during a recent interview (Photo courtesy of Royal Court) AMMAN — His Majesty King Abdullah has said that “misunderstanding” of Islam and the region among Western allies and […]
All India | Sreenivasan Jain (with inputs from Sonal Matharu and Manas Singh) | Updated: September 25, 2016 by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Much is made of funds pouring in to promote Saudi-style Islam in India (known as Salafism or Wahhabism), and of its influence, but what is the ground […]
JINAN BASTAKI | Published — Friday 23 September 2016 GOING deeper into our spiritual state during prayers (salah) requires that we have a presence of heart and are mindful of the words being said during the prayers. Our prayer will feel shorter, yet when we look at how much time […]
| Published — Friday 23 September 2016 ALLAH the Almighty decreed acts of worship and obedience for great wisdom and sublime objectives. No wonder, as they strengthen the faith, purify the soul, correct the attitude and refine the morals. If acts of worship did not achieve these objectives, then the […]
By AP – Sep 25,2016 – JORDAN TIMES In this August 13, 2016 file photo, soldiers from the 1st Battalion of the Iraqi Special Operations Forces are stacked against a building during a training exercise to prepare for the operation to re-take Mosul from Daesh militants in Baghdad, Iraq […]
CLOUD STORAGE Keeping data safe in a mountain By Carlo Pisani http://tp.srgssr.ch/p/swi/embed?urn=urn:swi:video:42424898 SEP 23, 2016 – 11:00 If every byte of information on the internet needs a physical location where it’s stored, one of the safest places to keep this data might be inside a Swiss mountain. (Carlo Pisani, swissinfo.ch) […]
Posted Sep 21, 2016 A Muslim teen has issued a passionate appeal to the organization that oversees the creation of emojis, proposing a number of symbols that represent her faith, including a man wearing a keffiyeh (headscarf) and a woman wearing a hijab. By Billy Hallowell, Deseret News A […]
Mosques are part of our suburban landscape and have a crucial role to play in overcoming fears about Islam. The Conversation By Sam Bowker, Charles Sturt University PHOTO: A ‘humble outback structure’: a former Afghan cameleer’s mosque in Bourke NSW.(Flickr: Iain Davidson) I presented a slide of an Afghan cameleer’s […]
An Iraqi government soldier celebrates in front an Islamic State group flag covered in graffiti in the town of Sharqat, around 80 km (50 miles) south of Mosul, Iraq, on Friday. | AFP-JIJI WORLD Iraq oil fires could jeopardize mission to retake Mosul from Islamic State forces AP SEP 24, […]
Christians, Jews in Turkey Growing More Fearful of Islamic Extremism By Uzay Bulut and Kasim Cindemir Posted 2016-09-25 (VOA) — Threatened by Islamic extremism, Christian and Jewish groups in Turkey are growing more fearful amid increasing terror attacks and the government’s state of emergency following a failed coup attempt, representatives […]