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.
Source: ET The manner in which successive governments of Pakistan have treated minority communities is a national disgrace and exposes the intolerance at the heart of the establishment. Another committee solves nothing, and is little more than a shabby political fig leaf. More:
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) The Obama administration is looking at how it could act on its own to stop companies that want to slash their tax bills by moving overseas. President Obama said officials are “reviewing all of our options” to act without congressional approval to stem the wave of so-called […]
Source: The Daily Best: Reuters Militants from the so-called Islamic State have taken over the largest Christian town in Iraq, Qaraqosh, and sent tens of thousands fleeing as a result. The militants took it overnight after Kurdish troops withdrew because they are stretched too thin. Qaraqosh, which is nearly […]
Source: Spiegel: In the Middle Ages, pilgrimages were neither a quest for meaning, nor an opportunity for contemplation, nor an event. People had real worries and pilgrimages were part of a deal. On the one hand was the willingness of the faithful to suffer, on the other was God’s capacity […]
Popularity of Labour Party is escalating fast in the UK; particularly among the Muslim and the Asian Community here but all their efforts were tried to ruin in the Eid Milan arranged by the Labour Party. The other day an Eid Milan party was being held under the auspices of […]
TAMIM ALMOUSA ARABNEWS.COM As an international student from Saudi Arabia living in the United States, a question I’m frequently asked and find it difficult to answer is, “where do you work?” Or, a more direct way of phrasing that sentence would be, “Where do you get the money you need […]
MANUEL MOGATO | REUTERS Published — Wednesday 6 August 2014 MANILA: A historic peace settlement in the southern Philippines is at risk of breaking down as Muslim rebels accuse the […]
Some days ago I met a Pakistani “Uncle” in the Bus. So I put my earphones out to salute him, but rather than greet me back he yelled at me and blamed me for listening to music in Ramadan, followed by a pseudo-intellectual lecture on “Islamic norms” (actually he was […]
MOSCOW — Russia should retaliate against the economic sanctions being imposed on the country over the Kremlin’s Ukraine policy, President Vladimir V. Putin said Tuesday. His was the strongest endorsement yet for calls in Russia to ban everything from major Western accounting firms to overflights by European airlines to frozen […]
197. An example of those who spend in the way of Allah [2:262] The similitude of those who spend their wealth for the cause of Allah is like the similitude of a grain of corn which grows seven ears, in each ear a hundred grains. And Allah multiplies it further […]
The United States needs to “up our game” and do much more to promote business with Africa, President Obama told the Business Forum at the U.S.-Africa Summit. He announced a series of actions ” to take our trade with Africa to the next level.” Following his speech, the president sat […]
A U.S. missionary who contracted Ebola has been evacuated from Liberia aboard a special medical flight. Nancy Writebol was flown out of Monrovia Tuesday and is expected to arrive in the United States later Tuesday. She will be treated at Emory University Hospital in the southeastern U.S. city of Atlanta […]
Source: NY Times KABUL, Afghanistan — A United States Army major general was killed on Tuesday by an Afghan soldier, shot at close range at a military training academy on the outskirts of Kabul, officials of the American-led coalition said Tuesday. The officer was the highest-ranking member of the American […]
Interview exclusif: Asif Arif “Au Pakistan, les ahmadis persécutés” Il y a plusieurs jours, trois personnes étaient lynchées par la foule au Pakistan. Leur tort : être de confession ahmadie. Asif Arif, spécialiste de la question, publie un livre sur la question. Entretien. Jennifer Chainay : Il y a quelques jours, trois […]
By Katrin Elger spiegel.de Cheikhmous Ali pushes a box of ballpoint pens across the table towards his friend and countryman Ahmad. The stout Syrian laughs aloud as he tucks one […]
There was a time when our politicians and media had one principal fear when covering Middle East wars: that no one should ever call them anti-Semitic. So corrosive, so vicious […]
by Robert Fisk, The Independent Let them die now. Let the memorials gather grass and the commemorations be over. I wish all those dead men could lose their eternal youth […]
After all the warnings and all the clichés about a war that would “spill” over Syria’s border, the savage fighters of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s Sunni Muslim “caliphate” have at last […]
Patrick Wintour, political editor The Guardian, Tuesday 5 August 2014 10.04 BST Lady Warsi, the senior Foreign Office minister, has resigned from the government in protest at its policy on Gaza, describing it as “morally indefensible”.. Warsi announced her departure on Twitter on Tuesday, saying: “With deep regret I have […]
194. O men, a similitude is set forth, so listen to it. Surely, those on whom you call instead of Allah cannot create even a fly [22:74] O men, a similitude is set forth, so listen to it. Surely, those on whom you call instead of Allah cannot create even […]