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.
Multiple bomb blasts have rocked the Syrian capital of Damascus, a mortar attack on Syrian TV among them, reports RT’s correspondent at the scene. Mortar bombs have been launched at the headquarters of Syrian TV, RT’s Paula Slier said on her Twitter adding and that a car bomb also exploded […]
Source: Riyad as-Salihin (The Meadows of the Righteous) By Imam Nawawi 227. Chapter: On the excellence of fasting the Day of ‘Arafa, ‘Ashura’ and the ninth of Muharram 1250. Abu […]
Roman ruins are rarely boisterous places, full of noise, laughter and life. But Edward Lewis stumbled across one that is – a place to have a daily wash, and to […]
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says gunmen have abducted six of its workers and one Red Crescent volunteer in north-west Syria. The aid agency has had no contact with the gunmen, an ICRC spokesman says. Earlier, Syrian state media said gunmen opened fire on Red Cross staff […]
Story Summary U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Saturday reached a preliminary agreement on a bilateral security pact that now depends on approval by […]
The people of Makkah have a history of their association with the Haj pilgrimage. This history dates back to the pre-Islamic era, when Qusay bin Kalb provided pilgrims with food […]
MINA: Arab News At exactly 12 midnight tonight, the Haj train will embark on its first trip for the season. Dispatch of “A” traffic will start on schedule, where the […]
MINA: SIRAJ WAHAB Published — Sunday 13 October 2013 Hundreds of thousands of Haj pilgrims began streaming into tent city at Mina by foot, on buses and in four-wheel drives […]
October 12, 2013 – 22:11 By Lesley Wroughton and Jessica Donati KABUL (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Afghan President Hamid Karzai ended two days of talks on a bilateral security pact on Saturday without a deal because they could not agree on the issue of legal […]
by Isobel Leybold-Johnson, swissinfo.ch October 10, 2013 – 11:00 Switzerland’s rate of births out of wedlock is half the European Union average, even if it is on the rise. Many […]
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yE8xrwormwo/UeEsaenxzpI/AAAAAAAACJ8/R2wAwnhcWT8/s400/Kambal%20001.JPG SAN FRANCISCO-Recently San Francisco-based Jewish Multimillionaire, inventor and filmmaker Dr. Maurice Kanbar gave a surprise lunch invitation to Dr. Hanif Koya editor/publisher of the FIJI SUN USA. Considering it as an honor, Koya accepted the invitation and met for a lunch at the Perry s at San Francisco Square. […]
Converting to Islam: British women on prayer, peace and prejudice Around 5,000 British people convert to Islam every year – and most of them are women. Five of them talk about prejudice, peace and praying in car parks Ioni Sullivan: ‘In my heart, I began to consider myself a Muslim.’ […]
VIEW : Our Founding Fathers included Islam — III — Denise Spellberg Thomas Jefferson would be the first in the history of American politics to suffer the false charge of being a Muslim, an accusation considered the ultimate Protestant slur in the 18th century Even earlier in his political life — […]
Welfare cuts and the economic downturn send soaring numbers of people to soup kitchens and food banks across Europe CHARLOTTE MCDONALD-GIBSON BRUSSELS FRIDAY 11 OCTOBER 2013 The Red Cross will this winter start collecting and distributing food aid to the needy in Britain for the first time since the Second […]
By Friederike Heine spiegel.de Friedland, a German refugee camp that has hosted displaced people since the end of World War II, welcomed its second group of Syrian refugees this week. […]
October 11, 2013 – 15:36 The number of people – Swiss and foreign nationals – departing Switzerland for pastures new or old has increased to levels not seen for 20 years, figures show. But the country still remains attractive to immigrants. In total the population of Switzerland grew by 1.1 […]
SHAH ALAM, Oct 12 — Non-Muslims cannot be forced to exclude the word “Allah” when practising their respective faiths, PAS president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang said today, ahead of Monday’s highly-anticipated court decision on the protracted dispute between Christians and Muslims here. But the Islamist leader stressed that although […]
Karzai said this week that he was prepared to walk away from the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) talks if Afghanistan was not happy with its conditions. The United States has […]
Edited by Nader Hashemi and Danny Postel Overview The United States is on the brink of intervention in Syria, but the effect of any eventual American action is impossible to […]
The United States is set to overtake Russia as the biggest oil producer outside OPEC during 2014 as shale production ramps up and helps reshape the global energy map. The International Energy Agency estimates U.S. production of oil and natural gas liquids will exceed 11 million barrels per day, making […]
