SR12m cash injection to keep Hajis in good health
RIYADH: MD RASOOLDEENARAB NEWS STAFF Published — Friday 4 October 2013 The Ministry of Health (MOH) has allocated SR12 million for stocking up on medicine for the treatment of Haj […]
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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.
66th Jasne Pakistan SFO Bay Area: TV Asia
JASNE PAKISTAN 2013 Play video 66TH PAKISTAN DAY BY PAKISTAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO. A TV ASIA SHOW BY DR. KOYA OF FIJI SUN USA. HELD AT THE SAN MATEO COUNTY CENTER 00:50:25 Added on 9/04/13 FYI http://youtu.be/Jozx8bE2i2k A glimpse of this was featured first time on TV ASIA […]
Isreal must adopt a new approach: Washington Post
By Walter Pincus, Washington Post, Published: October 2 http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/fineprint-a-new-approach-for-israel/2013/10/02/4cecf606-2ac9-11e3-b139-029811dbb57f_story.html It’s time for Israel to stop making military threats and to propose an imaginative diplomatic move — risky as it may seem — to help ease nuclear tensions in the Middle East. It can start by acknowledging its own nuclear weapons program. It has accused […]
Mosques open doors to non-Muslims
Source: The Local Over a thousand mosques welcomed visitors on Thursday as part of an annual event celebrating the integration of Germany’s four million Muslims into society. Organisers said […]
Slaughter of the innocents: The Vietnam war as never seen before
Images chronicle the work of press photographers in the front lines of the conflict that was the ‘last newspaper war’ CAHAL MILMO THE INDEPENDENT Exhausted to the point of collapse […]
The Rise and Fall of Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood
By David Schenker Ammon Voice of the Silent Majority Today, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt is down, if not completely out. After the Egyptian military deposed President Mohamed Morsi, a ranking Brotherhood bureaucrat, in July, Egypt’s courts charged him with a litany of felonies and the army cracked down, shooting […]
Why the Health Care Law Scares the G.O.P.
This spring, the Missouri Chamber of Commerce urged the state Legislature to accept the federal government’s plan to expand Medicaid for the poor and disabled. The business lobbying group had not suddenly gone rogue. Here is how Daniel P. Mehan, its president, summarized his feelings about President Obama’s health care […]
Fifty-one per cent of Israelis have considered emigrating
A recent poll by Israel’s Channel 10 has revealed that 51 per cent of Israelis have considered migrating to North America. The majority of the respondents attributed their desire to […]
At least 82 dead, many missing as migrant boat sinks off Sicily
By Massimiliano Di Giorgio ROME (Reuters) – At least 82 people died and scores were missing after a boat carrying migrants from Africa sank off the Sicilian island of Lampedusa […]
China's Ambitions in Xinjiang and Central Asia: Part 1
Analysis Editor’s Note: This is a three-part series on China’s evolving strategic interests in Central Asia and in its own far northwest, the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. Part 1 looks […]
Extremism is Ignorance, Interfaith Dialogue, France.
Editor The Muslim Times, France. Jama’at Ahmadiyya Val d’oise France organized an inter religious conference on 29th of September 2013. The topic was, “Extremism is the Result of Ignorance and not Religion.” Leaders of all the leading religions took part and favored the theme of the meeting. Conference started with […]
Turkish Parliament Speaker Çiçek accuses weapon providers for turmoil
Parliament Speaker Cemil Çiçek has placed the blame for the turmoil in the Middle East on those who provided weapons exacerbating the conflict, during a meeting with his Kuwaiti counterpart […]
Ten-year-old enrols in Zurich university course
A ten-year-old boy who passed a Swiss final high school maths exam for fun is taking a special course in the subject at prestigious Zurich University, the institution said on […]
ETH Zurich remains in top 20 universities list
Switzerland’s Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH) slipped in the latest Times Higher Education (THE) world university rankings but it remained the only institution in the top 20 from continental […]
KSA cancels UN address in protest over Syria inaction
In an unprecedented move, Saudi Arabia has not delivered its annual address at the UN General Assembly in protest at the international organization’s failure to solve major Muslims issues such as Syria, Palestine, and the Rohingya in Myanmar. “This is the first time that Saudi Arabia has canceled its UN […]
Syria war toll hits 115,200
Agence France Presse ARABNEWS BEIRUT: At least 115,206 people have been killed in Syria’s devastating 30-month conflict, most of them fighters from both sides, a monitoring group said on Tuesday. “The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has documented the deaths of 115,206 people from the start of Syria’s revolution on […]
Gulf between perception and reality of Muslims
Aijaz Zaka Syed Published — Thursday 3 October 2013 ARABNEWS Ali ibn Abi Talib, the fourth rightly guided Caliph of Islam, is noted for both his courage and timeless wisdom. In fact, there’s a whole collection of his thoughts titled Nahj Al Balagha (Pinnacle of Eloquence). There’s a line from […]
Understanding the $38 Trillion Bond Market in 5 Easy Steps
When it comes to the holy trinity of investing, (stocks, bonds and cash) it seems the rules and nuances of investing in the bond market often are the most baffling for newcomers. For this edition of Investing 101 we are going to demystify the bond market and have put together […]
Switzerland: INTEGRATION QUESTION: Should schools teach all mother tongues?
by Abdelhafidh Abdeleli, swissinfo.ch October 2, 2013 – 11:00 Although Swiss public schools are required to teach in national languages, about 60 per cent of children born in Switzerland to […]
The best and the worst passports
Passport ranking You want to know how good is your passport compared to other? We show here ranking for passport based on 3 criterions! First criterion is the number of countries and territories that you can visit without a pre-arrnaged visa. Second criterion is the number people that you can […]