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.
Saudi Artist Ahmed Mater Sues Swiss Watchmaker Swatch For Plagiarism Coline Milliard, Wednesday, February 18, 2015 Ahmed Mater’s Magnetism (2012) is emblematic of the vibrant new art scene emerging from the Gulf. The etching print, which exists in several versions, pictures a black cubic magnet neatly encircled by steel dust—a poetic evocation of […]
AP – JORDAN TIMES CAIRO — Egypt is making an ambitious bid to place itself at the centre of the fight against extremism across the Middle East. Beyond fighting militants in its own Sinai Peninsula, it is trying to organise an international coalition against the Daesh terror group in Libya […]
ISIS Really Wants Power—Not Islam February 18, 2015 by Qasim Rashid Recently The Atlantic published a piece titled, “What ISIS Really Wants.” The lengthy piece makes numerous fallacious claims about ISIS and its relation to Islam and Islamic doctrine. Accordingly, and significantly, it misses the strategy necessary to counter and […]
The pair are jailed at Hull Crown Court after a “farcical” attempt to cheat UK immigration laws at a ceremony in October. 10:31, UK,Saturday 14 February 2015 Beata Szilagyi and Zubair Khan were jailed for immigration offences Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on Google+ Share by email A […]
AFP , Wednesday 18 Feb 2015 Ahram Online Pope Francis walks as he arrives to lead the weekly audience in Saint Peter’s Square at the Vatican February 18, 2015. (Photo: Reuters) Security at the Vatican and across Italy has been stepped up because of a perceived heightened risk of […]
Interview Conducted by Nicola Abé and Juliane von Mittelstaedt AFP In an interview, Israeli prime minister candidate Isaac Herzog says the country’s people are “fed up” with Benjamin Netanyahu’s “politics […]
Qasim RashidLawyer, Speaker, Best-Selling Author of “EXTREMIST” There exist two scenarios where no one can hear you scream. The first is of course, in space because there’s no oxygen. And the second is on Earth, but only if you’re a global Muslim leader condemning ISIS and promoting universal religious […]
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‘Guantanamo of the East’: Ukraine Locks Up Refugees at EU’s Behest By Maximilian Popp spiegel.de REUTERS Brussels is doing all it can to prevent refugees from reaching Fortress Europe, with initiatives like funding the construction of interment centers in Ukraine. Asylum seekers who have spent time there […]
ANTI-EXTREMISM Breaking the radicalisation cycle By Simon Bradley FEB 18, 2015 – 10:20 Global efforts to counter violent extremism continue to intensify with a high-level summit in Washington this week. Outside of international talks, are grassroots approaches the answer? A new Geneva-based agency thinks so. On Wednesday, civil society and […]
JERUSALEM: Scuba divers have discovered the largest trove of gold coins ever found off Israel’s Mediterranean coast — about 2,000 pieces dating back more than 1,000 years, the country’s antiquities […]
SAN FRANCISCO — The US National Security Agency has figured out how to hide spying software deep within hard drives made by Western Digital, Seagate, Toshiba and other top manufacturers, giving the agency the means to eavesdrop on the majority of the world’s computers, according to cyber researchers and former […]
Just when Washington and Nato feared they were going to be bombing Isis on their own, the self-styled “Islamic State” has single-handedly created a new Arab military alliance to bomb the West’s enemies. By its seaside slaughter of 21 Egyptian Christians, Isis has brought ex-Field Marshal President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi […]
By George Friedman In recent weeks, we have been focusing on Greece, Germany, Ukraine and Russia. All are still burning issues. But in every case, readers have called my attention to what they see as an underlying and even defining dimension of all these issues — if not right now, […]
381. Commandment – Those among you who put away their wives by calling them mothers — they do not become their mothers; their mothers are only those who gave them birth; and they certainly utter words that are manifestly evil and untrue [58:3] Those among you who put away their […]
382. Commandment – As to those who call their wives mothers, and then would go back on what they have said, the penalty for it is the freeing of a slave before they touch each other …. [58:4] As to those who call their wives mothers, and then would go […]
Prime Minister Manuel Valls on Monday urged France’s Jews to stay in the country after a fresh call by the Israeli premier for European Jews to emigrate to Israel. “My message to French Jews is the following: France is wounded with you and France does not want you to leave,” […]
SANAA: A few worried families are all that remain of Yemen’s ancient Jewish community, and they too may soon flee after a Shiite militia seized power in the strife-torn country […]
JEDDAH: IBRAHIM NAFFEE ARABNEWS.COM The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) announced a package of urgent measures to prevent the rapid spread of terrorism, which has hit a number of OIC […]
In Al-Our village, families, mourners and officials attend funeral ceremony for 21 Copts decapitated by Islamic State militants Marina Barsoum , Monday 16 Feb 2015 Hundreds of grieving mourners in […]