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 JORDAN TIMES – Aug 30,2015 – AMMAN — Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh and French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius will co-chair a UN International Conference on the victims of attacks and abuses on ethnic or religious grounds in the Middle East, which will be held in […]
In this Saturday photo provided by Egypt’s state news agency MEAN, Eni CEO Claudio Descalzi, third left, and his delegation meet with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, center, and an Egyptian delegation, in Cairo on Saturday. (MEAN via AP) AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE Published — Sunday 30 August 2015 CAIRO: Italian energy […]
It’s election year in Canada – and a lot of Canadians are tired of Mr Harper’s uncritical pro-Israeli policies ROBERT FISK MIDDLE EAST CORRESPONDENT THE INDEPENDENT Sunday 30 August 2015 Marwa Fahmy is a feisty lady. She needs to be after the shock and tears of Saturday’s Egyptian […]
Barbed wire along the Hungarian border. Barbed wire at Calais. Have we lost the one victory which we Europeans learned from the Second World War – compassion? By Robert Fisk, The Independent The Great Wall of China, the walls of Rome and every medieval city, the Siegfried Line, the Maginot […]
Haeril Halim, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Headlines | Fri, August 28 2015, 5:57 PM The National Meeting of the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) in Surabaya, East Java on Thursday elected senior cleric Ma’ruf Amin as chairman of the organization for the 2015-2020 term, replacing outgoing leader Din Syamsuddin. In […]
Group claims one gold coin is worth $139 (£89) Pictures posted on social media showed a series of gold sovereigns bearing Isil inscriptions By Colin Freeman, Chief Foreign Correspondent 23 Jun 2015 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) has begun minting its own “Islamic dinar” coins, Syrian activists […]
Aug 29, 2015 Jordan Times Musa Keilani Daesh is still recruiting more Europeans, Tunisians, Saudi Arabians and Jordanians. A monthly salary of $700 for new jihadists is a tempting income for unemployed youth in areas where more than 47 per cent of the population lives under the […]
AUG 30, 2015 – 09:52 By Yoruk Bahceli AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – As Europe grapples with its biggest wave of migration since World War Two, the Netherlands is about to toughen its asylum policy by cutting off food and shelter for people who fail to qualify as refugees. Failed asylum seekers […]
HARUN YAHYA Published — Saturday 29 August 2015 Wars have always inflicted horrendous disaster on human psyche. Some people who get terrified by the first gunshot, bomb and reports of death gradually become insensitive to human miseries. War, as well as its foul consequences, becomes a part of life. […]
People light candles in front of the police station in Eisenstadt, Austria, after the bodies of more than 70 migrants were discovered in a truck. (Ronald Zak/AP) By Anthony Faiola and Griff Witte August 29 at 8:48 AM KECSKEMET, Hungary — Pressure to change Europe’s dysfunctional asylum system grew […]
Wajid Shamsul Hassan offers regrets on his speech in Ahmadiyya Conference in UK Lahore: August 29, 2015. (PCP) As Punjab Assembly passes resolution of condemnation on comments of former High Commissioner of Pakistan in London Wajid Shamsul Hassan in Ahmadiyya Peace Conference in Alton, UK, on August 23, 2015, issues […]
572. Commandment – And fight them not in, and near, the Sacred Mosque until they fight you therein. But if they fight you, then fight them: such is the requital for the disbelievers [2:192] And kill them wherever you meet them and drive them out from where they have driven you out; for […]
By Susanne Koelbl, Katrin Kuntz and Walter Mayr spiegel.de Armend Nimani/ DER SPIEGEL More than a third of all asylum-seekers arriving in Germany come from Albania, Kosovo and Serbia. Young, poor and disillusioned with their home countries, they are searching for a better future. But almost none […]
THE CANADIAN PRESS FIRST POSTED: FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 2015 07:25 Prime Minister Stephen Harper (L) at the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at, Canada’s largest National Islamic Convention on Friday August 28, 2015 in Mississauga Ontario. Veronica Henri/Toronto Sun/Postmedia Network MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — Stephen Harper’s speech to a large Muslim conference on Friday […]
571. Commandment – It does not behove a Prophet that he should have captives until he engages in regular fighting in the land [8:68] It does not behove a Prophet that he should have captives until he engages in regular fighting in the land. You desire the goods of the world, […]
Muslims come together to share the message of “Love for all hatred for none” August 25, 2015 His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the Fifth Caliph of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community http://www.alislam.org While Ayoub El Khazzani was planning to kill all passengers in a train traveling […]
By Aroosa Shaukat Published: August 28, 2015 Assembly session marred by absence of govt officials. PHOTO: FILE LAHORE: A fierce debate erupted on Thursday in the Punjab Assembly over the […]
Peace prize winner urges investment in aquaculture to solve global hunger Dr. Modadugu Vijay Gupta, an Indian fisheries scientist, won the first-ever Sunhak Peace Prize. (Image: http://sunhakprize.com/) more > By THE WASHINGTON TIMES – – Friday, August 28, 2015 One of the winners of a major new international peace award […]
By Markus Dettmer, Carolin Katschak and Georg Ruppert spiegel.de Jörg Glaescher/DER SPIEGEL The German business community views the recent influx of refugees as an opportunity to help companies […]
ARAB NEWS Published — Friday 28 August 2015 Haj is one of the five pillars of Islam. All Muslims who fulfill certain conditions must perform Haj at least once […]