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.
Following is the official translation of remarks by His Majesty King Abdullah at a meeting with participants in “The Challenges Facing Arab Christians” Conference on Tuesday: In the Name of […]
STOCKHOLM: Sweden on Tuesday became the first European Union country to announce it will give asylum to all Syrian refugees who apply. “All Syrian asylum seekers who apply for asylum in Sweden will get it,” Annie Hoernblad, the spokeswoman for Sweden’s migration agency, told AFP. “The agency made this decision […]
GENEVA: ARAB NEWS Published — Wednesday 4 September 2013 Around $103 billion in financial aid has been provided by Saudi Arabia to 95 developing countries over the past 30 years. […]
Source: The Economist: In the past some 50 cars were stolen here each year. Now it’s 350.” It’s not surprising that car-stealing gangs flock to Frankfurt: crossing the border takes just a few minutes. Polish gangs stealing German cars is nothing new. What’s new is the rapid increase of such […]
Source: The Conservative Papers: Al-Qaeda linked terrorists in Syria have beheaded all 24 Syrian passengers traveling from Tartus to Ras al-Ain in northeast of Syria, among them a mother and a 40-days old infant. Gunmen from the terrorist Islamic State of Iraq and Levant stopped the bus on the road […]
Source: The Economist: Recent years have been less glorious for the job of secretary of state, although it remains the top position in the Holy See’s administration, or curia, and is sometimes equated with “prime minister” of the Vatican. Its outgoing holder, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, seems to have allowed secretive […]
Source: Dawn:Com In the past couple of weeks, speculation has been rife over the appointment of Chief of Army Staff (COAS) and the Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC) and rumours say that this time around the decision-making will be extremely judicious for which the screening process is already […]
Source: Dawn:Com Haroon Tariq. — Photo by Dawn ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani student, Haroon Tariq, has broken the current world record by securing a total of 47 As in his International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE) O Level and A Level exams from the University of Cambridge International […]
Source: NY Times: BERLIN — Chancellor Angela Merkel and her Social Democratic challenger, Peer Steinbrück, returned to the campaign trail on Monday, with neither triumphant after their sole television debate, a mostly decorous 90-minute exchange that restored Mr. Steinbrück as a credible candidate but yielded a rhetorical draw.Perhaps reflecting the flickering interest […]
Source: Stratfor: By George Friedman Last week began with certainty that an attack on Syria was inevitable and even imminent. It ended with the coalition supporting the attack somewhere between falling apart and not coming together, and with U.S. President Barack Obama making it clear that an attack was inevitable, […]
The Muslim Times Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Rasul Bakhsh Rais Published: September 2, 2013 Peace within states is as important as it is between and among states. Let […]
Russia’s early warning radars have detected the launch of two ballistic rockets in the eastern Mediterranean, Russia’s Defense Ministry stated. The launch reportedly took place at 06:16 GMT Tuesday. The trajectory of the missiles is reported to have been from the central part of the Mediterranean Sea towards the eastern […]
SOURCE: SYDNEY (AP) — Spin bowler Fawad Ahmed will not have to wear a beer company logo on his Australia uniform because of his Muslim faith. Ahmed, who fled Pakistan […]
September 2, 2013 – 17:18 The Swiss refugee authorities say deportations of rejected Tamil asylum seekers to Sri Lanka have been temporarily suspended following reports of arrests and international criticism of the military’s increasing influence on the country’s leadership. The move was taken to avoid further arrests of Tamils upon […]
The US is not “the cop of the world” and cannot “attack any country,” but it follows its key agenda of removing all independent governments in the Middle East, Richard Becker from ANSWER Coalition told RT. The real aim of the US “is to remove all the independent governments in […]
The situation in Syria is still in the focus of world media. Experts predict another U.S. aggression for “human rights”. Washington regularly declares its readiness to attack Syria. The official version – to punish al-Assad and Syrian army for the use of chemical weapons against the civilian population. Meanwhile, the […]
By Associated Press, Published: September 2 JERUSALEM — Behind an official wall of silence, Israel is signaling it wants the U.S. to strike Syria sooner rather than later, fearing that continued inaction could hurt American credibility in the region. Yet at the same time, Israel appears to have little desire […]
BY MORGAN LEE , CP CONTRIBUTOR September 2, 2013|1:19 pm Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at National Harbor, Maryland March 14, 2013. A victory for Syria’s “Islamic rebels” and an overthrow of President Assad would endanger Syrian Christians, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) […]
– Kendra Spears and Prince Rahim announced their engagement in April – Married in traditional Muslim ceremony at Bellerive Castle in Geneva American supermodel Kendra Spears became a princess yesterday […]