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.
SUMMARY BY RAMI G. KHOURI, THE DAILY STAR, LEBANON The intense debate taking place across the world in recent months about the precise nature of and motivating forces behind ISIS is impressive and useful, but still incomplete. What remains unclear is the lack of evidence that any serious efforts […]
396. Commandment – If you fear a breach between them, then appoint an arbiter from his folk and an arbiter from her folk. If they (the arbiters) desire reconciliation, Allah will effect it between them. Surely, Allah is All-Knowing, All-Aware [4:36] And if you fear a breach between them, then appoint […]
395. Commandment – If a woman fear ill treatment or indifference on the part of her husband, it shall be no sin on them that they be suitably reconciled to each other; and reconciliation is best [4:129] And if a woman fear ill treatment or indifference on the part of her […]
Does money make you mean? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ8Kq1wucsk I want you to, for a moment, think about playing a game of Monopoly, except in this game, that combination of skill, talent and luck that help earn you success in games, as in life,has been rendered irrelevant, because this game’s been rigged, and you’ve got the upper hand. You’ve got […]
TERRORISM Human rights under threat, says foreign minister By swissinfo.ch and agencies MAR 2, 2015 – 12:01 Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter urged the international community to root out terrorism (Keystone) The fight against terrorism was the focus of the opening speech by Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter at the […]
CORPORATE RETREATS Religious houses open doors to the working world By Terence MacNamee MAR 1, 2015 – 11:00 The Disentis monastery, an oasis of calm and tranquility (swiss-image) Swiss monasteries […]
https://www.youtube.com/embed/0o6phpTBaKI See what young British Muslims have to say!
AFP | Mar 02, 2015 | 22:42 Mourshidates, female religious guides appointed by the Algerian religious affairs ministry to spread the good word of Islam and a message of tolerance, read the Koran, Islam’s holy book, at the Ennidal Mosque in the Algerian capital, Algiers, on February 22 (AFP photo) […]
A state in distress CONNECT TWEET RSS FOLLOW EMAIL PRINT SHARE The Daily Star It’s relatively easy to highlight the appalling situation in Syria, where violence, displacement, fragmentation and corruption prevail. Analysts can chart the slow collapse of state institutions and wonder how the country can survive under its current […]
Denying Israel atrocities The Daily Star John Kerry offered the usual type of spirited defense of Israeli behavior Monday, when he addressed the U.N.’s Human Rights Council. The U.S. secretary […]
Associated Press By LEE KEATH and HAMZA HENDAWIAssociated Press14 hrs ago © AP Photo/Militant video, File FILE – This file image made from video posted on a militant website Saturday, July 5, 2014, purports to show the leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, delivering a sermon at […]
MARCH 01, 2015 LAUREN FRAYER Muslim men attend Friday prayers at La Pau Islamic Center in Tarragona, a Mediterranean coastal town where Muslims comprise about 10 percent of the population. Lauren Frayer/NPR Spain’s Mediterranean coast is home to the country’s biggest Muslim community. And in one town there, local politicians […]
Reuters In this photo provided by the Turkish Prime Minister’s Press Office, Pro-Kurdish legislator Sirri Sureyya Onder, center right, Turkey’s deputy prime minister Yalcin Akdogan, center left, and other legislators and officials attend a meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, Saturday, Feb. 28, 2015. — AP ISTANBUL: Jailed Kurdish militant leader Abdullah […]
Mr. Netanyahu, back off, don’t you mess with America! February 26, 2015 | Time to stop Netanyahu from lying to America, blocking his speech to the unofficial joint session of the US Congress By Mike Ghouse Lessons in Foreign policy: Mr. Netanyahu and his ilk can fool us in America once, […]
393. Commandment – There shall be no sin for you in anything you mutually agree upon, after the fixing of the dowry [4:25] And forbidden to you are married women, except such as your right hands possess. This has Allah enjoined on you. And allowed to you are those beyond that, that you seek […]
By Tom Bousfield and Catrin NyeBBC Asian Network 17 April 2013 From the sectionLondon The Bosnian Hardaga family helped shelter a family of Jews A new exhibition aims to celebrate the role Muslims played in saving Jewish lives during the Holocaust. The Righteous Muslim Exhibition is being launched at the […]
By Peter Maxwill in Berlin DPA Many Jews in Germany are nervous about wearing the kippah in public or showing any visible signs of their Jewishness. How anti-Semitic is Germany? […]
The Daily Star BEIRUT: Assyrian Christians fleeing ISIS are welcome to take refuge in Lebanon because their humanitarian case in exceptional, Interior Minister Nouhad Machnouk said. Al-Mustaqbal reported Sunday that Machnouk, after discussing the matter with Prime Minister Tammam Salam and Social Affairs Minister Rashid Derbas, gave the order to […]
HARUN YAHYA Published — Saturday 28 February 2015 Last Sunday, the global media reported that Turkish tanks had rolled into Syria to carry out an operation to evacuate the tomb of Suleyman Shah from the only Turkish territory in the war-torn Syria. The region where the historical tomb was […]
The Daily Star An arson attack on a Christian seminary in Jerusalem Thursday, and a similar attack on a mosque the day before are hate crimes, committed by extremist individuals, and are representative of the systemic racism directed at Palestinians by the Israeli government and its policies. Because while the […]