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 Reuters – Dec 31,2015 – JORDAN TIMES A man carries an injured child amidst rubble near a burning vehicle in a site damaged from what activists said was shelling by forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar Assad in the town of Douma, eastern Ghouta in Damascus, Syria on Wednesday […]
The executions were certainly an unprecedented Saudi way of welcoming in the New Year – if not quite as publicly spectacular as the firework display in Dubai which went ahead alongside the burning of one of the emirate’s finest hotels Robert Fisk Middle East Correspondent @indyvoices 233 comments Saudi Defence […]
Members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association are delivering goods they’ve collecting during a food drive. Published Thursday, December 31, 2015 6:40PM EST A group of young Montrealers is delivering the goods they’ve collected during a holiday food drive, as they do every year. But this year, the Ahmadiyya Muslim […]
Ruth Gledhill CHRISTIAN TODAY CONTRIBUTING EDITOR 30 December 2015 Asia Bibi is in prison in Multan in Punjab, awaiting the result of her appeal against her conviction for blasphemy. Asia Bibi, the Christian woman who has spent her seventh Christmas behind bars under death sentence in Pakistan for blasphemy, has […]
An inquiry into allegations of murder, abuse and torture by British forces between 2003 and 2009 could result in prosecutions. 05:02, UK,Saturday 02 January 2016 skynews.com British soldiers may face prosecution for war crimes, an inquiry head says Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on Google+ Share by […]
FOR A BETTER FUTURE: Migrants gather in Victoria Square, where migrants and refugees found temporary refuge, in central Athens on Friday. (AFP) THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published — Saturday 2 January 2016 ATHENS: Bitter cold, biting winds and rough winter seas have done little to stem the seemingly endless flow of […]
ARAB NEWS Published — Friday 1 January 2016 Tawheed (Islamic monotheism) is the greatest foundation of Islamic belief. In fact, a person is considered as Muslim if he/she accepts that […]
By AMINO ABUBAKAR & ADEROGBA OBISESAN Published — Saturday 2 January 2016 Source: Arab News As Nigeria rings in 2016, the ever-present threat of violence by Boko Haram hangs heavy […]
By ABDULLAH AL-SHIHRI, ASSOCIATED PRESS RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Jan 2, 2016 The Associated Press FILE – In this Sunday, Sept. 30, 2012 file photo, a Saudi anti-government protester carries a poster with the image of jailed Shiite cleric Sheik Nimr al-Nimr during the funeral of three Shiite Muslims allegedly […]
By Reuters – Dec 31,2015 – JORDAN TIMES A member of Iraq’s elite counterterrorism service flashes the ‘V’ for victory sign on Wednesday in the city of Ramadi, the capital of Iraq’s Anbar province, about 110 kilometres west of Baghdad (AFP photo) BAGHDAD — Iraqi forces may face a big […]
Hindustan Times © Provided by Hindustan Times Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar will hold a high level meeting with security officials on Saturday evening following a terror attack on the Indian Air Force base in Indian Air Force (IAF) base in Pathankot district of Punjab early Saturday. The security counter-operation that […]
By Irfan Ullah Khan “She believed in me when the whole world refuted me and she attested to my trueness when the whole world accused me of falsehood. She offered me compassion and loyalty with her wealth when everyone else had forsaken me.” [Prophet Muhammad (saws): Narrated by Masnad Ahmad] […]
By CHRIS COONSTHE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER – updated Thursday, December 31, 2015 America is at war with the Islamic State, but we are failing to confront the cost of this war. Deployments of American special operations forces to Syria and Iraq in recent months have rightly revived calls for Congress […]
Bashir Khan December 31, 2015, 11:59 am The Youth Association of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community NZ, will gather its members from across Auckland, and continue its annual tradition of the New Year’s Day clean up. The location chosen for this year’s event, in liaison with City Parks Services, is the […]
By IANS | 1 Jan, 2016, NEW DELHI: Indian Muslims have little fascination for Islamic radical groups like ISIS and Al-Qaeda, say scholars and Muslim leaders agreeing with Home Minister Rajnath Singh’s assertion that Indian Muslims were not attracted to their ideologies. The minister, while speaking at a conference at […]
Harry, who gave up job in the City to join Kurdish forces, says fears of prosecution won’t keep him off the frontline Harry, who uses the pseudonym Macer Gifford, returned to Syria in early December to fight against Isis. Photograph: Martin Godwin for the Guardian Ben Quinn Friday 1 January […]
Jan 01,2016 -JORDAN TIMES – Ahmad Y. Majdoubeh We in this part of the world welcome all efforts geared towards fighting and then eradicating terrorism, exercised by countries from the region and beyond. While terrorism is primarily ravaging several countries in our region, it is also directly affecting several other countries […]
Jan 01,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – RAMI G. KHOURI Keep your eyes on the oil-fuelled Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Arab states in the year ahead, because they are just starting to experience a genuinely novel, almost existential, challenge that will test the quality of their statehood and national integrity as […]
31 December 2015 From the sectionEurope SPIEGEL.DE Image copyrightEPAImage captionMrs Merkel’s pre-recorded speech is to be broadcast on Thursday evening German Chancellor Angela Merkel is to use her New Year’s speech to urge Germans to see the influx of refugees as an opportunity for the future. Warning against support […]
Françoise Frenkel’s book ‘Rien où poser sa tête’ has been rescued from obscurity. Robert Fisk celebrates an extraordinary writer, and her story which has a mystery at its heart. Robert Fisk @indyvoices Tuesday 29 December 2015 German-occupied Paris, 1942. The Jewish population were forced to wear the yellow […]