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.
Refuge cities: The sympathy of last autumn towards asylum-seeking minors in the Gothenburg suburb of Mölndal has been drowned out by anger and suspicion – but the city is working […]
One evening Mulla Nasruddin quarrelled with his wife and shouted at her so fiercely that she fled for refuge to a neighbouring house, where he followed her. As it happened a wedding feast was in progress, and the hosts and guests did all they could to calm him down, and […]
Social April 6, 2016 TEHRAN – The Golden Eagle Danube Express luxury train, carrying 74 tourists from the U.S., the Netherlands, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Australia, arrived in the northwestern Iranian city of Tabriz on Tuesday. The tourists paid visits to Azarbaijan Museum, Blue Mosque, and Grand Bazaar and […]
NO STATUS http://tp.srgssr.ch/p/inline?urn=urn:swi:video:42046214 EMBED CODE APR 4, 2016 – 15:45 Sometimes asylum seekers go underground, as they have no hope of getting official refugee status. They’re known as “sans papiers” (without papers). (SRF/swissinfo.ch) Asylum is only granted to those who face persecution or imprisonment in their country of origin for […]
By Reuters – Apr 07,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Palestinian children gather in a playground during a celebration for Palestinian Child Day, in the West Bank town of Salfit on Tuesday (AP photo) OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — A far-right Israeli politician has been admonished by his party and roundly condemned by […]
By Khetam Malkawi – Apr 07,2016 – JORDAN TIMES A Syrian family is escorted at the airport to catch a flight to the US, where they will have a refugee status as part of a programme to host 10,000 Syrians in America, on Wednesday (Photo by Osama Aqarbeh) […]
Voices As the journalist Wolfgang Bauer reminds us, the Syrian people witness the horrors of the Paris and Brussels attacks every single day Robert Fisk @indyvoices 11 comments The most relevant newspaper cartoon on the asylum story popped up on the front page of The Irish Times this week, for […]
The Mulla went to see a rich man. ‘Give me some money.’ ‘Why?’ ‘I want to buy … an elephant.’ ‘If you have no money, you can’t afford to keep an elephant’. ‘I came here’, said Mullah Nasrudin, ‘to get money, not advice.’
Almost half the remaining inmates are Yemeni, but I have to say that I don’t remember many Yemenis in Osama bin Laden’s camps – and I met the man twice in Afghanistan Robert Fisk @indyvoices Friday 1 April 2016 They could go on hunger strike. They could talk to […]
Tehran Times Political Desk TEHRAN – On Thursday, Iran reacted angrily to the passage of a resolution which renewed the mandate of Ahmed Shaheed, the UN special rapporteur on the human rights situation in Iran, for another five years. The Iranian Foreign Ministry said the renewal of Shaheed’s mandate is […]
By Suzanna Goussous – Mar 28,2016 – JORDAN TIMES UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon speaks during a meeting with students on Sunday at the University of Jordan also attended by World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim and Jordan Strategy Forum Chairman Omar Razzaz (Photo courtesy of UJ) AMMAN […]
Reuters International MAR 30, 2016 – 17:03 By Jack Stubbs and Lisa Barrington MOSCOW/BEIRUT (Reuters) – President Bashar al-Assad said it would not be difficult to agree a new Syrian government including opposition figures, but his opponents responded on Wednesday that no administration would be legitimate while he remained in […]
Source: Swissinfo.ch The interior ministry has announced its intention to elevate five complementary therapies including homeopathy to the same level as conventional medicine. Homeopathy, holistic medicine, herbal medicine, acupuncture and […]
Source: Swissinfo.ch Political and media debates on religion in Switzerland focus mainly on Muslims and Islam. But the country also has many people of Hindu, Jewish and Sikh faith. What […]
CHOCOLATE MONEY Where is Swiss chocolate most popular? By Jo Fahy, Filipa Cordeiro and Thomas Stephens MAR 29, 2016 – 16:41 Switzerland has a longstanding reputation for making exquisite chocolate, […]
In a statement to police, Mustafa says: ‘When someone hasn’t seen his family for 24 years and wants to see his wife and children, and the Egyptian government doesn’t allow it, what should one do?’ Adam Withnall @adamwithnall 6 comments Seif Eldin Mustafa flashes the “V” for victory sign as […]
Mar 29,2016 -JORDAN TIMES – HASAN ABU NIMAH The early morning terrorist attacks at the main Brussels airport in Zaventem and at a crowded metro station shocked the whole world for their barbarity, their indiscriminate nature and the large number of innocent civilian casualties. The death toll of that bloody […]
By Rana Husseini – Mar 29,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Protesters hold placards calling for granting full rights to children of Jordanian women married to non-Jordanians during a sit-in near the Prime Ministry on Tuesday (Photo by Rana Husseini) AMMAN — Around 100 people staged a sit-in in front […]
BAITUN NUR MOSQUE, AHMADIYYA MUSLIM JAMA’AT, CALGARY, CANADA is mentioned in the list of the 40 most beautiful mosques in the world. See full list below: Go to MSN.com
By Agencies – Mar 28,2016 -JORDAN TIMES – Yossi Abu, chief executive of Delek’s subsidiaries Delek Drilling and Avner Oil, reads the ruling of Israel’s supreme court decision to temporarily block a landmark natural gas agreement, announced late on Sunday (Reuters photo) TEL AVIV — Israel’s top court […]