Syria conflict: Children ‘targeted by snipers’
More than 11,000 children have died in Syria’s civil war in nearly three years, including hundreds targeted by snipers, a new report says. Summary executions and torture have also been […]
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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.
Evolution debate again erupts before Texas Board of Education
By Will Weissert, Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Board of Education used a late-night meeting to give preliminary approval to new science textbooks for classrooms across the state […]
Security: New Document Shows NSA Wanted More, More, More Power
By Courtney Subramanian @cmsubNov. 23, 2013 A leaked National Security Agency document reveals a four-year mission strategy that underscores the agency’s scope of power and desire to broaden surveillance efforts in the “golden age of Signit,” or signals intelligence. The five-page, February 2012 document, leaked by former NSA contractor Edward […]
P5+1 and Iran agree landmark nuclear deal at Geneva talks
The P5+1 world powers and Iran have struck a historic deal on Tehran’s nuclear program at talks in Geneva. Ministers overcame the last remaining hurdles to reach an interim agreement, […]
Pakistan’s Imran Khan to Block NATO Supplies After Drone Strike – Attack on School Putting Civilian Lives in Danger
by Jason Ditz, November 21, 2013 NATO is about to lose access to its primary supply line into occupied Afghanistan, the Khyber Pass, as Imran Khan, the leader of the Pakistani Tehreek-e Insaf (PTI), the political party which runs the Khyber Pakhtunkhah Province (KP) through which the supplies travel, has […]
Does the Hajj Radicalize Muslims? You Might Be Surprised By the Answer
Erol Yayboke Every year millions of Muslims from around the world participate in the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca. Despite being a fundamental pillar of Islam, the Hajj is often misunderstood, […]
Woman accuses firm of sacking her for wanting to wear Muslim headscarf
A Wollongong woman has accused a local accountancy firm of sacking her for wanting to wear the Muslim headscarf. Mariam El Hassan, 23, had worked at the firm for five years. Her lawyer says she asked the firm if she could start wearing the headscarf to work for religious reasons […]
Swiss given top UN job for Palestinian refugees
wissinfo.ch and agencies November 21, 2013 – 11:03 Swiss diplomat Pierre Krähenbühl has been appointed commissioner-general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near […]
Stuxnet’s Secret Twin
By: Ralph Langner BROOKINGS Editor’s Note: In a September 19, 2013 op-ed in Foreign Policy, Ralph Langner evaluates the lessons and legacy of the Stuxnet computer worm that crippled Iran’s uranium enrichment efforts in 2010. Langner reveals that another, more subtle Stuxnet variant infected Iranian industrial control systems as early […]
Nadeem Paracha’s ‘The 1974 ouster of the ‘heretics’”: Some observations | Shermeen Butt
Ahmadiyya Times | News Watch | UK Desk Source/Credit: Ahmadiyya Times By Shermeen Butt | November 21, 2013 The following was written as a comment on Nadeem Paracha’s piece in Dawn yesterday – but Dawn has chosen not to publish it. I really do not know why. [Shermeen Butt] Mr […]
Syrian Muslim rebel brigades say they’ve unified as the ‘Islamic Front’
Barbara Surk And Diaa Hadid Beirut — The Associated Press Last updated Friday, Nov. 22 2013, 3:45 PM EST Powerful Syrian Islamic rebel brigades announced Friday their merger into a single organization, a step meant to hold off surging government forces and stop rival groups from seizing more opposition-held territory. […]
HIGGS BOSON AND DR. ABDUS SALAM
Source: Ibtidah By Aqeel Ahmed * There are four fundamental forces in nature, namely, electromagnetism, weak nuclear force, strong nuclear force and gravity. Electromagnetism can be observed in daily life experience. […]
Yellen’s Fed Leadership Is an Almost-Done Deal
WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve’s campaign to encourage economic growth was bolstered on Thursday as Janet L. Yellen moved to the verge of confirmation as the next head of the Fed, and a change in Senate procedures made it easier for the White House to fill three other vacancies on […]
Ahmadiyya Muslims promote peace at Ball State University
By Rick Yencer MUNCIE, INDIANA (NEWS) – Muzaffar Ahmad told of persecution and killing among Islamic sects in Pakistan and throughout the world as his sect of Muslims preach peace. Ahmad, who is a member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim sect, talked with Ball State University students and professors Thursday about […]
Ukrainian Muslims: Problems Resolved? Interview with Dr. Emad Abu Ar-Rub, Head of Fatwa Committee
By Shahira Mahran OnIslam.net’s Staff Wednesday, 12 June 2013 00:00 Emad Abu Ar-rub Emad Abu Ar-Rub is the Head of Fatwa Committee in Ukraine, and the Imam of Al-Massar Islamic […]
Atheism: The ‘A’ word issue
01:24 November 21, 2013 1:58 PM EST — Are non-religious, non-believing Americans hesitant to label themselves as atheists? Sunday Assembly co-founder Sanderson Jones shares his thoughts. (The Washington Post) VIEW VIDEO HERE: WASHINGTON POST
No Muslim can do it, really?
November 22, 2013 Gul Bukhari THE NATION Sympathisers and facilitators of Islamic extremist forces in the Pakistani mainstream media, representatives of clerical bodies and even some politicians of mainstream political parties, have long held that massacres, be they suicide bombings indiscriminately aimed at men, women and children in a Bazaar, […]
Sacred Geometry of Islamic Mosques
By Hwaa Irfan Friday, 22 November 2013 00:00 Cairo, Egypt The main precept of Islam is the unity and oneness of Allah and the importance of worshipping only Allah and […]
Riyadh killing Iraq democratization process: Expert
Saudi Arabia is sparing no effort to derail the process of democratization in Iraq, a Middle East expert tells Press TV in an interview. “Saudi Arabia has sought, since day one, to destabilize, discredit, [and] derail the fledgling democracy in Iraq with the ultimate goal of dismantling the entire democratic […]
The Wahhabi – Likudnik war on terror
By Pepe Escobar ASIA TIMES The double suicide bombing targeting the Iranian embassy in Beirut – with at least 23 people killed and 170 wounded – was a de facto terror attack happening on 11/19. Numerology-wise, naturally 9/11 comes to mind; and so the case of the Washington-declared war on […]