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.
Source: press@amjinternational.org Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad has travelled to inaugurate the Baitul Masroor Mosque The World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat and Fifth Khalifa, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad arrived in Brisbane on 22 October 2013 after a short flight from Sydney to inaugurate the new Baitul Masroor Mosque. Hazrat Mirza […]
RFI France does not want an escalation of the row over US snooping on millions of French citizens’ telephone communications, the government’s spokesperson said Tuesday, after a breakfast meeting between US Secretary of State John Kerry and French Foreign Affairs Minister Laurent Fabius. Fabius told Kerry that the snooping, which targeted […]
Husband made her sleep with him and first wife in same bed By Bassam Za’za’, Legal and Court Correspondent Published: 20:04 October 22, 2013 Gulf News Dubai: A second wife was granted a divorce because her husband made her have sex with him and his first wife. The Asian woman, […]
Source: Huff Post ZK A man with a hatred of “non-whites” has admitted murdering a grandfather who was on his way home from a mosque. Ukranian student Pavlo Lapshyn also plotted a series of nail bomb attacks near mosques in the West Midlands. The self-confessed racist had only just arrived […]
Soruce: Arab News: KUWAIT CITY: Gulf countries and Egypt have applauded the Kingdom’s decision to reject a UN Security Council seat in protest at the world body’s failure to act on issues like Syria and Palestine. Saudi Arabia turned down a coveted two-year term on the council on Friday in […]
American employers added 148,000 jobs in September, according to a delayed report released Tuesday by the Labor Department. The pace of growth was somewhat slower than what economists had been expecting. The unemployment rate ticked down to 7.2 percent from 7.3 percent the previous month. Federal Reserve officials and economists […]
Source: Washington Post By Richard S. Ehrlich| Religion News Service,October 03, 2013 RNS () — A court in Muslim-majority Bangladesh sentenced an Islamist member of Parliament to death for genocide and other crimes against Hindus during the country’s 1971 war for independence. Salahuddin Chowdhury is the first opposition party member […]
Source: Morocco World News: Rabat- Morocco expressed understanding, on Monday, of the refusal of Saudi Arabia to sit on the UN Security Council, said a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation. More:
Source: Money News: Most people know Sean Hyman from his regular appearances on Fox Business, CNBC, and Bloomberg Television, but what they don’t know is that Sean is a former pastor, and that his secret to investing is woven within the Bible. Perhaps that can explain why, despite his uncanny […]
Source: Morocco World News: During his speech on healthcare reform on Monday, U.S. President Barack Obama caught a pregnant lady beginning to faint behind him, and then joked: “That’s what happens when I talk too long.” More:
Source: Huff Post UK Samantha Lewthwaite, the so-called ‘White Widow’, penned a dubious ditty to Osama Bin Laden, it has emerged. Kenyan police found the poem, littered with spelling errors and poor grammar, amongst downloads of fitness guides and videos, a body-building manual and instructions for making bombs and chemical […]
Source: HUFF POST Oops. WalesOnline lifted the hopes of the entire nation today – by starting a live blog announcing David Cameron’s resignation. More:
Source: CNN Blue Mountains, Australia (CNN) — A swath of wildfires nearly 1,000 miles long coursed through the most populous state in Australia Tuesday, and firefighters fear the worse is yet to come. “If our strategies don’t work and weather materializes tomorrow that is forecast … it could be absolutely devastating,” […]
Source: CNN: Based on extensive field research, the reports both underlined the difficulties of gathering information on attacks in dangerous areas of Pakistan and Yemen. And they both noted the U.S. government’s unwillingness to talk about the cases. The lack of information from U.S. authorities, Amnesty said, makes it impossible […]
Source: Dawn.Com A recently released UN report suggests there is “strong evidence” that top Pakistani military and intelligence officials approved US drone strikes on Pakistani soil during 2004 and 2008. The study says in some cases, even “senior government figures” gave their approval to the strikes in the country’s militancy-hit […]
Source: ET In a situation where we see what amounts to a breakdown of the rule of law, any attempt to strengthen the writ of the state is to be welcomed. The declaration on October 20, by the federal government of all peace-disrupting elements as ‘enemies’ of the state, and the […]
Story Summary A senior rebel commander in southern Syria was killed in fighting with government troops in the town of Tafas on Monday, sources on both sides said. An activist on the ground said Abu Ammar was “one of the most effective commanders on the ground, and one of the […]
by Dahai Shao, swissinfo.ch October 20, 2013 – 11:00 Jumping across rooftops or chopping bricks in half – that’s cinema. But real-life kung fu, as the West refers to Chinese martial arts (it’s “wushu” in China), is so much more than that, as I discovered when I visited a martial […]
The Kingdom has won accolades from the World Health Organization for the medical services it provided to pilgrims during the Haj season. Ezz Al-Din Al-Muhsini, WHO coordinator of elimination and eradication of infectious diseases, and coordinator of the eradication of polio, said: “The well-equipped hospitals designated to serve Haj pilgrims […]
Divorce cases in Saudi Arabia increased to more than 30,000 in 2012, with a rate of 82 a day translated to almost three divorce cases every hour, found a study prepared by the economic research unit at Al-Eqtisadiah newspaper. According to the study, divorce rates in the Kingdom are 2.5 […]