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.
The Virgin founder also criticised Republican governors Source: The Independent Olivia Blair @livblair 32 comments Branson called Isis ‘a gang of murderous thugs’ Mark Metcalfe/Getty Images Sir Richard Branson has […]
No rescue services were allowed in and 100’s from violent mob were seen enforcing a blockade of the burning premises while raising slogan of ‘Allah-o Akbar” and shouting anti-Ahmadis curses. Ahmadiyya Times | News Watch | Int’l Desk Source/Credit: Various / Ahmadiyya Times By Staff Report | November 20, 2015 […]
652. Commandment – Make not Allah a target for your oaths that you may thereby abstain from doing good and acting righteously and making peace between men [2:225] And make not Allah a target for your oaths that you may thereby abstain from doing good and acting righteously and making peace between men. […]
Jewish children with no home and, soon, no parents, were not really welcome in the United States during World War II Petula Dvorak THE INDEPENDENT Our nation of immigrants has […]
Flemingdon Park march to end at site where mother assaulted in possible hate crime CBC News Posted: Nov 20, 2015 11:35 AM ET Last Updated: Nov 20, 2015 11:35 AM ET Marchers carried the Canadian, French and Lebanese flags during a Friday peace march in the Flemingdon Park neighbourhood. (Linda […]
BY SIOBHÁN O’GRADY NOVEMBER 18, 2015 – 6:47 PM SIOBHAN.OGRADY @SIOBHAN_OGRADY Nigeria has failed time and again to effectively beat back the Boko Haram extremists wreaking havoc across the country’s northeast. Officials there have tried to shift the blame to Washington, claiming American policies have prevented Nigeria from acquiring the […]
Commandment – Make not your oaths a means of deceit between you [16:93] And be not like unto her who, after having made it strong, breaks her yarn into pieces. You make your oaths a means of deceit between you, for fear lest one people become more powerful than another. Surely, […]
EXCLUSIVE Did the Pentagon Cook the Books on Its Afghanistan Intel? The military has been accused of fudging the numbers in the fight against the Islamic State. Congress wants to know if it did with the Taliban too. BY DAN DE LUCE NOVEMBER 19, 2015 DAN.DELUCE @DANDELUCE Lawmakers are probing […]
Isis was quick to understand a truth the West must now confront: that the national borders imposed by colonial powers 100 years go are becoming meaningless, says Robert Fisk Robert Fisk @indyvoice 18 comments A Kurdish fighter surveys the border between Turkey and Iraq AFP/Getty Early in 2014, Isis released […]
November 16, 2015 The Paris terror attacks – particularly the methodical shooting of unarmed civilians – have shocked the world and generated new tough talk from policymakers. But the West cannot ignore how some of its violent policy prescriptions over the past 35 years have contributed to the crisis, writes […]
In a secluded room at an airbase in Nevada, young men hold the power of life and death over people thousands of miles away. Former servicemen tell their story A US air force officer points to a display with which he operates a Predator unmanned aircraft system over Afghanistan, from […]
Migrants from countries other than Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq allegedly being stopped at borders Patrick Kingsley Migration correspondent Thursday 19 November 2015 Countries along the Balkan migration trail have begun refusing to admit people of certain nationalities, amid a backlash against refugees in the aftermath of the Paris attacks last […]
Commandment – Fulfil the covenant of Allah when you have made; and break not the oaths after making them firm, while you have made Allah your surety [16:92] And […]
ARAB NEWS Published — Wednesday 18 November 2015 JEDDAH: Expatriates are all praises for two Saudi men with golden hearts who donated SR225,000 to pay the diya (blood money) for a Filipino driver convicted of running over an Indian man on a motorway accident in the Kingdom. The kind gesture […]
ANTI-JIHADI STRATEGY Steering Swiss youngsters away from radicalisation By Simon Bradley NOV 17, 2015 – 17:00 Three teams of Islamic State gunmen and suicide bombers carried out attacks last Friday […]
Nov 18,2015 – JORDAN TIMES It would be sad, indeed tragic for some, if, as reported, certain nations, including several European countries, the US and Canada, would have a change of heart regarding receiving Syrian refugees in their countries, after the horrible terrorist attacks in Paris last week, for fear that […]
By AFP – Nov 16,2015 – Palestinians carry the bodies of Ahmed Al Ayeh, 28, and Laith Manasra, 21, during their funeral in the Qalandia refugee camp on the outskirts of the West Bank city of Ramallah, on Monday (AP photo) QALANDIYA, Palestinian Territories — Israeli forces shot dead […]
By JT – Nov 19,2015 -JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — The war on terror is a global war that “we should fight together as one”, according to His Majesty King […]
Nov 18,2015 – JORDAN TIMES – DAOUD KUTTAB In fighting the scourge of radicalism and religious fundamentalism, one of the strategies is to use religion. Proponents of this approach vary from those who insist that Daesh and its ideology is simply built on a warped understanding of religion to those who […]
Nov 17,2015 – RAMZI BAROUD – JORDAN TIMES Writing in the New York Times in the article titled “Myanmar generals set the state for their own exit”, Thomas Fuller expressed his and the media’s failure to recognise the total fraud that is Burmese democracy. “The official results are still […]