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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Likudists suddenly find that the whole world wants peace in the Middle East rather than war ROBERT FISK Author Biography TUESDAY 01 OCTOBER 2013 These are hard times for the Israeli right. Used to bullying the US – and especially its present, shallow leader – the Likudists suddenly find […]
Religion News Service | By David Gibson HUFFINGTON POST (RNS) Pope Francis has done it again: Just two weeks after the publication of a lengthy, detailed interview in which he […]
by A. Abdul Aziz, Press Secretary, Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at – Sri Lanka. (Given below is an excerpt of the Friday Sermons of Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, Supreme Head of the world-wide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Islam, delivered on 27th September 2013, at Ta Ha Mosque in Singapore gave a discourse […]
Source: Daily Star. Ashutosh Sarkar, Mahbubur Rahman Khan and Tuhin Shubhra Adhikary In the first-ever war crimes verdict against any BNP leader, a special tribunal yesterday sentenced Salauddin Quader Chowdhury to death for committing crimes against humanity and genocide during the country’s Liberation War in 1971. Read more Top Bangladesh Opposition Leader […]
When a loved one dies, most of us turn to a funeral home or crematorium to take care of the body. In the Islamic tradition, it’s different. Family members often […]
Source: WCBM TALKRADIO 70% of global population growth over the next 30 years will be in Muslim countries Around 70 per cent of global population growth over the next 30 years will be in Muslim countries as the Muslim population of 1.6 billion is growing at twice the rate of […]
By Aryn Baker / Tripoli, Lebanon @arynebaker Just back from the front, where he watched his rebel-commander father die in a rocket attack launched by the Syrian army, Berri al-Hamad stalks the worn carpet of his family’s temporary refuge in Lebanon, swearing vengeance. His head wrapped in his father’s beanie, […]
A keen horticulturist in West Sussex has achieved a lifetime’s work by growing 250 varieties of apple on one tree. Paul Burnett has been grafting apples, including many rare varieties, […]
Leipzig (dpa / sn) – The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (AMJ) wants to build a mosque with two to twelve meters tall minarets in Leipzig. “The City Authorities will determine whether […]
Source: The Economist: IN THE wake of the attacks on the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, speculation has grown about the possible involvement of Samantha Lewthwaite, a British convert to Islam. Ms Lewthwaite, known as the “White Widow”, was married to Germaine Lindsay, one of theLondon 7/7 bombers and himself a convert. She is […]
Mark Tran theguardian.com Sweden is the best country for older people; Afghanistan the worst – but general affluence does not necessarily mean better conditions for the over-60s, according to the […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor’s comment: The original source wants to cast the quotes in some negative light, so we have copied completely the quotes about Islam, to preserve these over […]
Source: NY Times: The first major survey of American Jews in more than 10 years finds a significant rise in those who are not religious, marry outside the faith and are not raising their children Jewish — resulting in rapid assimilation that is sweeping through every branch of Judaism except […]
Aga Khan, a Swiss-Born Philanthropist and Muslim Spiritual Leader visited India from 17 to 29 September 2013. During the visit in New Delhi, Aga Khan met President of India Pranab […]