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.
Israel’s failed war on Gaza has shifted the political ground on both sides of the conflict, bolstering Hamas, which Israel set out to destroy, and discrediting Israeli propaganda, which no one now believes, writes Ramzy Baroud Aside from being a major military setback, Israel’s latest war on Gaza has also […]
JEDDAH: P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR Published — Friday 12 September 2014 A simple act of kindness can do wonders. A Briton embraced Islam after he witnessed a fellow Saudi patient being bombarded with moral and financial support from two Saudi scholarship students, who had regularly visited their compatriot at a hospital […]
If No triumphs it will be despite the mainstream parties rather than because of them by George Galloway, The Independent David Cameron may lose his premiership over this and Ed […]
234. Commandment to be a beneficial to mankind [13:18] He sends down water from the sky, so that valleys flow according to their measure, and the flood bears on its surface swelling foam. And from that which they heat in the fire, seeking to make ornaments or utensils, comes out […]
233. Verily, the righteous will be placed amid gardens and fountains. ‘Enter therein with peace, in safety.’ [15:46] Verily, the righteous will be placed amid gardens and fountains. [15:47] ‘Enter therein with peace, in safety.’ [16:31] And when it is said to the righteous, ‘What think ye of that which […]
235. Let not your works go vain [47:34] O ye who believe! obey Allah and obey the Messenger and let not your works go vain.
ABU AMEENAH BILAL PHILIPS Published — Friday 12 September 2014 If we look at the obstacles in life we can put them under a variety of headings: Personal problems, family […]
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Human Rights Watch (HRW) accused Israel of committing war crimes by attacking three UN-run schools in the Gaza Strip in fighting in July and August, killing Palestinian […]
JEDDAH: NADIM AL-HAMID Published — Saturday 13 September 2014 The city of Makkah has hired 5,000 workers to clean the holy sites during this year’s Haj, an official told Arab […]
The Kingdom’s grand mufti and president of the Council of Senior Scholars, Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Asheikh, has called for tough action against those who smuggle, promote and sell drugs. “Drugs are more dangerous than atomic bombs,” he said, and warned that users face ruin and loss of their morality. Al-Asheikh […]
By BEN HUBBARD, ERIC SCHMITT and MARK MAZZETTISEPT. 11, 2014 BEIRUT, Lebanon — President Obama’s determination to train Syrian rebels to serve as ground troops against the Islamic State in […]
Innocent people under military rule exposed to surveillance by Israel, say 43 ex-members of Unit 8200, including reservists Peter Beaumont in Jerusalem The Guardian, Friday 12 September 2014 Forty-three veterans […]
By Peter Siegenthaler Amid international action against Islamic State militants, neutral Switzerland has limited its involvement to humanitarian and diplomatic efforts. United States President Barack Obama’s pledge to extend air strikes to Islamic State targets in Syria relies on other states’ readiness to participate in military action against the terrorist […]
BY CHRIS MAUME, THE INDEPENDENT Oscar Pistorius was not the first in his family to sleep with a gun close to hand. His parents divorced when he was six, and […]
The last divorce from the United Kingdom was painful and acrimonious, but ended in harmony and prosperity. So why should independence north of the border turn out any differently? BY ROBERT FISK, THE INDEPENDENT Seventy per cent of UK citizens in the land voted Yes to independence, they left the […]
Resurrection, reinvention and linguistics. Barack Obama did the lot. And now he’s taking America to war in Syria as well as Iraq. Oh yes, and he’s going to defeat Isis, […]
Source: The Local. The report from the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, which has been seen by the Berliner Morgenpost, showed that of the 378 German Islamists who have headed to Syria since mid-2012 just one in four finished high school. Six percent finished post-school training and […]
Source: Indian Punchline. The fact of the matter is that: a) Pakistan is not living up to China’s high expectations and is gripped with a death wish of its own making that it is unable to shake off; b) Chinese priorities in South Asia have changed and it is not […]
Source: Asia Times By Brian M Downing The four armed groups warring in Iraq – Islamic State (IS), the Kurdish peshmerga, the Iraqi army, and Sunni tribal levies – have strengths and weaknesses. They also have varying levels of foreign support and capacities for cooperation. IS troops have a marked […]
(Reuters) – The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits unexpectedly rose last week, but that probably does not signal a material shift in labor market conditions as claims remain near their pre-recession levels. Initial claims for state unemployment benefits increased 11,000 to a seasonally adjusted 315,000 for […]