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Rafiq A. Tschannen

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.

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Obama’s Lists: A Dubious History of Targeted Killings in Afghanistan

By SPIEGEL Staff AP/Kirsty Wigglesworth Combat operations in Afghanistan may be coming to an end, but a look at secret NATO documents reveals that the US and the UK were far less scrupulous in choosing targets for killing than previously believed. Drug dealers were also on the lists. http://www.facebook.com/v2.0/plugins/share_button.php?locale=en_US&href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spiegel.de%2Finternational%2Fworld%2Fsecret-docs-reveal-dubious-details-of-targeted-killings-in-afghanistan-a-1010358.html&type=button&width=110&font=verdana&colorscheme=light&height=21 http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?locale=en_US&href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spiegel.de%2Finternational%2Fworld%2Fsecret-docs-reveal-dubious-details-of-targeted-killings-in-afghanistan-a-1010358.html&layout=button_count&show_faces=false&width=140&action=recommend&font=verdana&colorscheme=light&height=21 […]

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Qur’an lesson for today: 331. Commandment – Eat, then, of that over which the name of Allah has been pronounced and eat not of that on which the name of Allah has not been pronounced

  331. Commandment – Eat, then, of that over which the name of Allah has been pronounced and eat not of that on which the name of Allah has not been pronounced   [6:119] Eat, then, of that over which the name of Allah has been pronounced, if you are believers […]

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Terrorism is un-Islamic, says Ahmadiyya head

Kamaljit Singh Kamal  Qadian (Gurdaspur), December 30, 2014 The 123rd international annual convention of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community concluded at its headquarters here on Sunday night. Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the fifth Caliph, while addressing the convention, said that terrorism today had become a cause of fear and anxiety for the […]

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Writing about the Mideast

RAMZY BAROUD Published — Tuesday 30 December 2014 Writing and reporting about the Middle East is not an easy task, especially during these years of turmoil. Following and reporting on these constant changes without a deep understanding of the region will achieve little but predictable and lackluster content that offers […]