Slim pickings
Story Summary The news that Carlos Slim, one of the richest people on the planet, is focusing efforts on investing some of his vast fortune in Israel should come as […]
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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.
Saudi Arabia: NSHR: Scrap sponsorship system
The National Society for Human Rights has called upon the government to abolish the sponsorship system and recruit foreign workers under a Labor Ministry agency to protect the rights of […]
Restoring The Mausoleum That Helped Inspire The Taj Majal
by Julie McCarthy December 01, 2013 Think Taj Mahal and then try to imagine what came before it. What was the inspiration for that masterpiece? Archaeologists and architects say a […]
A beacon for interfaith peace
In Indonesia, the Nahdlatul Ulama preaches the spirit of brotherhood to maintain peaceful coexistence among the country’s Muslim-majority, diverse ethnic society. THE Global Peace Festival (GPF) Malaysia recently interviewed Dr […]
25 ways to enter Jannah
Source: jamiat.org.za The Arabic word Jannah means simply “Garden” and it refers to the blissful paradise that awaits believers after death. The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) taught that […]
Islam and Thomas Jefferson
During the 1770s Jefferson purchased a number of Arabic texts, which might have given him the desire to learn the Arabic language and could have significantly reinforced his commitment to […]
An open letter to Pakistan’s new army chief General Raheel Sharif
Source: LUBP To save the army and to save Pakistan, the only course of action is to come out openly against the Taliban and their LeJ-ASWJ partners. We know that PTI, PML-N, JI and JUI openly sympathize with the mass murderers of our civilians and army soldiers. We know that […]
Pakistani media blacks out the story of a severed head hanging from a bridge in Karachi
Source: LUBP On Friday (29 Nov 2013), DAWN TV reported that Takfiri Deobandi terrorists of Sipah Sahaba Taliban (ASWJ-TTP) beheaded a retired Pakistan Navy officer Saleem Raza alia Fauji in Buffer Zone Karachi. Later, they drilled his head and hung it with a rope on Sohrab Goth bridge with a […]
Is France racist? Abuse shocks nation
Source: CNN.Com Paris (CNN) — This is a country which says races don’t exist: there is only the human race, to which we all belong. This is a country which, unlike the U.S. and Britain, has purposefully limited freedom of speech in order to criminalize verbal violence and incitement to hatred […]
Humans emerged from male pig and female chimp, world’s top geneticist says
Source: TOI LONDON: Humans are actually hybrids, who emerged as an offspring of a male pig and a female chimpanzee, according to one of the world’s leading geneticist. Turning the theory of human ancestry on its head, Dr Eugene McCarthy — one of the world’s leading authorities on hybridization in animals from the University of Georgia has suggested that humans […]
German President Praises Islamic Theology
OnIslam & News Agencies Friday, 29 November 2013 00:00 The president was speaking during a Thursday’s visit to Munster University’s Islamic Theology Center. MUNSTER – German President Joachim Gauck has […]
Pope Francis’s remarks on Islam and reactions of others!
Source: Jehad Watch Last night on my weekly appearance on Michael Coren’s Sun TV show, Michael and I discussed the Pope’s recent remarks about authentic Islam being peaceful, the ex-Muslim poet in Denmark whose life has been threatened for criticizing Islam, and the schoolchildren in the U.K. who were threatened with being labeled “racists” if […]
The Iranian puzzle – by URI AVNERY
THE greatest danger to Israel is not the putative Iranian nuclear bomb. The greatest danger is the stupidity of our leaders. This is not a uniquely Israeli phenomenon. A great many of the world’s leaders are plain stupid, and always have been. Enough to look at what happened in Europe […]
Jambi back to normal after eviction of Ahmadis
JAKARTA POST The situation in Singkut district, Sarolangun regency, has returned to normal following the ousting of two Ahmadiyah families, namely the Rukamanas and the Madjids, from the area by local residents and the village administration on Sunday. Despite the improved situation, Sarolangun Police Precinct chief Adj. Sr. Comr. Ridho […]
Anonymous Utah Muslim promises $100k donation to typhoon victims
SALT LAKE CITY — An anonymous donor from the Muslim community of Salt Lake City has pledged to donate up to $100,000 in matching funds to help victims of the typhoon in the Philippines. Islamic Society of Greater Salt Lake president Aden Batar says the donor will match funds donated […]
Church destroyed by Muslim ruler !!! ???
Note by the editor: The headline is FAKE!!! The real headline should read: ‘Church restored by Muslim ruler’. I just wanted to see which of the two headlines will get […]
Masterpiece of medieval Armenia restored – Church restored by Muslim ruler
Perched spectacularly amid thickly forested mountains about 100 kilometres northeast of Yerevan, Haghartsin monastery is a masterpiece of medieval Armenian ecclesiastical architecture. Founded in the tenth century, the monastery – […]
Germany: Asylum Policy: New Coalition Cements Status Quo for Refugees – An Analysis by Maximilian Popp
German politicians claim Berlin’s new government coalition agreement will offer progress on asylum policies. In truth the policies solidify the status quo and ignore the most important issues. The migration-policy experts in Germany’s center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) put on quite a show of being pugnacious and principled. Against the […]
Islamic charities, the domestic victims of the war on terror
Dr Sarah Marusek Friday, 29 November 2013 15:15 Dr Sarah MarusekIt has now been five years since the sentencing of the Holy Land Five: Muslim-American humanitarians who were falsely convicted of providing “material support for terrorism” because of their charitable work in Palestine. To mark the occasion, the daughters of […]
How Nawaz Sharif chose new Pak army chief in midnight meeting
Source: HT Pakistan’s Lieutenant-General Raheel Sharif attends a military exercise in Khairpure Tamay Wali in Pakistan’s Bahawalpur district. Reuters Just after midnight in early October, Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif and a coterie of his closest advisers met at his palatial Lahore home and made his toughest decision since coming […]