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.
Jun 18,2016 -JORDAN TIMES – Mahmoud N. Zidan On June 14, I was watching the CNN coverage of the atrocious mass shooting that left 49 Americans dead and more than 50 injured. As part of that coverage, Andrew Cuomo, a CNN anchor, was hosting Rudy Giuliani, the mayor of New York […]
Jun 18,2016 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL In the 2002, the Arab world made a peace offer to Israel the Arab countries thought it could not refuse: normalisation of relations between the Arab region and Israel in exchange for a complete Israeli withdrawal from the occupied territories, including East Jerusalem, and […]
By Suzanna Goussous – Jun 16,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Family Kitchen volunteers deliver food to areas around the Kingdom, such as Madaba, Um Al Rassas, Salt, Hitteen camp and Zarqa (Photo courtesy of Family Kitchen) AMMAN — Aiming to promote Ramadan values, a group of 120 volunteers is collecting […]
As much as Jinnah is revered now even by religious groups, what many people don’t know or overlook is that throughout his political life Jinnah shared a close affinity with […]
By Life&Style Published: June 18, 2016 As the ineffable media policing continues. PHOTO: FASHIONCENTRAL Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) surprised the Pakistani audience yesterday by banning actor Hamza Ali Abbasi’s Ramazan transmission. The ban was imposed over violation of the media regulator’s code of conduct as Pemra found Hamza […]
By Saqib Gul | ثاقب گل @SaqibGul01 The moment Hamza Ali Abbasi announced to conduct a program for Ahmadis he has been subject to fury from Muslims. Such a reaction is […]
OPINION By Luca Geisseler JUN 17, 2016 – 17:48 (Marina Lutz) It was ages ago. Yet it could have been yesterday. In 2008, to prepare for the Euro football championships that Switzerland would co-host, the national football team trained in Lugano. Just like they did eight years later. Their final […]
ARAB NEWS | Published — Saturday 18 June 2016 Paid reservations reached 124,000 rooms, of a total of 155,000 rooms in the central area for the first 10 days of Ramadan. (SPA) MAKKAH: Reservations at hotels in the central area in Makkah registered their highest operational capacity this year, […]
By Reuters – Jun 16,2016 – JORDAN TIMES In this February11, file photo, school boys play in a street in Aleppo, Syria. After four years of grinding battles, Aleppo divided residents face a common fear as the prospect of a total siege looms. Syria’s largest city used to be […]
Sat June 18, 2016 By Hassan Lasjerdi June 18, 2016 As Iraqi forces along Popular Mobilization Forces also known as al-Hashd al-Shaabi are engaged in fierce clash with the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Daesh) terrorist group and have so far been able to deal major blows to […]
Source: RT.com Published time: 17 Jun, 2016 Almost half the ethnic Turks living in Germany consider following Islamic teaching more important than abiding by the law, a new survey claims. […]
Reuters International JUN 17, 2016 – 16:00 Mustafa Sentop, head of constitution commission of the Turkish Parliament, speaks during an interview with Reuters in Ankara, Turkey, June 15, 2016. REUTERS/Umit Bektas (reuters_tickers) By Orhan Coskun and Nick Tattersall ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey will not hold a referendum on the powerful […]
JO COX Swiss parliament honours murdered British politician By swissinfo.ch and agencies JUN 17, 2016 – 10:54 Floral tributes left in memory of Jo Cox in Parliament Square, London (Keystone) The presidents of the Senate and the House of Representatives have expressed their condolences on behalf of the Swiss parliament […]
MINORS NGO blasts Swiss policy on detaining migrant children JUN 16, 2016 – 16:58 The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child defines a child as every human being below the age of eighteen, unless the law applicable to the child states otherwise. The age of majority in Switzerland […]
Jun 16,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Nina L. Khrushcheva Over the last few years, Pope Francis has reinvigorated the Catholic Church’s core message with passionate criticism of unbridled capitalism and a new, more progressive worldview. In the United States primaries, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign is doing much the same […]
By Rula Samain – Jun 15,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Muslims and Christians share an iftar meal at the Assembly of God Church in Salt on Friday (Photo courtesy of Fakhri Rihani) SALT — Gathered in a Bedouin tent in a churchyard, around 40 people waited for the mosque to […]
Many of Europe’s largest banks won’t do business with Iran for fear of breaching other US sanctions, which have nothing to do with the nuclear agreement – but a lot […]
BY KRISTINA COOKE AND JOSEPH AX FBI Director James Comey delivers a speech at the Master of Science in Foreign Service CyberProject’s sixth annual conference at Georgetown University in Washington D.C., U.S. April 26, 2016. REUTERS/CARLOS BARRIA Muslim-Americans have repeatedly informed authorities of fellow Muslims they fear might be turning […]
GENEVA | BY STEPHANIE NEBEHAY Bones, suspected to belong to members of Iraq’s Yazidi community, are seen in a mass grave on the outskirts of the town of Sinjar, November 30, 2015. REUTERS/ARI JALAL/FILES Islamic State is committing genocide against the Yazidis in Syria and Iraq to destroy the religious […]
ERBIL, IRAQ | BY MAHER CHMAYTELLI AND ISABEL COLES Iraqi soldiers gather to go battle against Islamic State militants south of Mosul , Iraq, June 15, 2016. REUTERS/STRINGER Once Islamic […]