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.
(Reuters) – U.S. home resales rose to a 10-month high in July and the number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits fell last week, signaling strength in the economy early in the third quarter. The growth outlook was further buoyed by other reports on Thursday showing factory activity […]
By Zubair Khan Alhamdolillah, by the mercy and kindness of God as well through prayers of Khalifatul Masih (Be Allah his Supporter) Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission Croatia could get its message published in the 3rd largest but most circulated news paper ( 24SATA) of Croatia. News paper editions printed in Bosnia […]
By I.A. Rehman DAWN.com Regardless of the final outcome of the weeklong marches and dharnas, Pakistan seems to have been put back under authoritarian control and this is likely to […]
AUG 21, 2014 – 00:30 A pilot study in the Journal of Medical Ethics has found that the number of so-called “suicide tourists” coming to Switzerland for assisted suicide services […]
ASIF SHAHZAD | AP ARABNEWS ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s powerful army chief called Wednesday for the country’s civilian government to negotiate with thousands of protesters surrounding parliament who demand the prime minister step down over alleged fraud in last year’s election. Gen. Rasheel Sharif made the request during a meeting with Shahbaz […]
A leading Swiss scientific foundation has chosen a female Saudi Shoura Council member to speak alongside international personalities at a conference highlighting the role of science in finding solutions to […]
BEIJING — China has reprimanded 15 Xinjiang officials for violations that include adhering to religious faith, state media said on Tuesday, amid a crackdown on what the government calls illegal […]
by Rami G. Khouri, Daily Star, Lebanon Summary The dramatic expansion of the territory controlled by the “Islamic State” in Syria and Iraq in the last few months has generated a historic moment of reckoning in several arenas in those two countries, which mirror similar trends across the entire region. […]
Summary Visiting the Kurdish capital Irbil, Maronite Patriarch Beshara Rai called Wednesday on the international community to help Iraq’s minorities, asking the country’s Christians to stick to their roots and […]
Question: As-salamu `alaykum. It’s that I need some hope for the hereafter. I am going to be committing suicide in the coming days, and I just want to know if there is hope for me in the Day of Judgment and the hereafter. I have been considering suicide for years […]
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) Macy’s must pay a $650,000 fine to settle complaints that it’s staffers wrongfully accused minority shoppers of stealing. New York’s Attorney General Eric Schneiderman started to investigate Macy’s, which has 42 stores in New York State, in February 2013 after receiving complaints about racial profiling. “The office […]
211. And eschew open sins as well as secret ones [6:121] And eschew open sins as well as secret ones. Surely, those who earn sin will be rewarded for that which they have earned. [7:34] Say, ‘My Lord has only forbidden foul deeds, whether open or secret, and sin and […]
Source: The Huffington Post By Asif Arif: Elève-avocat au Barreau de Paris, chargé d’enseignement à l’Université de Paris Dauphine et Directeur du site internet Cultures & Croyances. Auteur, aux éditions l’Harmattan, du […]
By Veronica DeVore A just-released report from the Geneva-based Small Arms Survey shows that hundreds of portable anti-aircraft weapons are currently in the hands of rebel groups in Syria and […]
By: Mohammed Abboud Published Tuesday, August 19, 2014 Female doctors in the Iraqi city of Mosul are witnessing the practices of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) firsthand, since they have to maintain a closer contact with them compared to school teachers and government employees who opted to […]
Published Wednesday, August 20, 2014 Fighting in the Gaza Strip continued for a second day after the collapse of truce talks, as Israeli forces killed a woman and a toddler in an assassination attempt targeting a Hamas military leader. Charging that Israel had “opened a gateway to hell,” Hamas’s armed […]
By ALI KHEDERY AUG. 15, 2014 NEW YORK TIMES “THE country is in your hands,” whispered Iraq’s president, Fuad Masum, on Aug. 11 as he charged the newly designated prime […]
by Daniel George TNN CHENNAI: The Indian consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia has introduced several high-tech measures for the 1,36,000 Haj pilgrims from India, including 3,330 from Tamil Nadu. Chief among them is an Internet-based, user-friendly smartphone application to address the issue of missing pilgrims, consul general of India B […]
Source: Spiegel Images of Yazidis fleeing parts of Iraq and Syria have shocked the world and the battle against the jihadists with the Islamic State has united Americans, Europeans, Kurds and Iranians. Can the Islamists be stopped? More:
ibrahim Kalın 19 August 2014, Tuesday The coverage of Turkey by European and American media outlets is becoming increasingly hysterical, and is far from the established rules of critical and objective journalism. Since the Gezi protests broke out in June 2013, Western journalists have faced a barrage of criticism. When […]