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: Daily Times via Wasim Sr: As I looked at Dr Salam’s tombstone, I felt a pang of guilt and shame at what we have done to the Ahmadis in Pakistan. We have abolished their religious freedom and in the process our own The disgusting manner in which Malala Yousafzai […]
AFP EGYPT INDEPENDENT U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry announced on Friday that Israel and the Palestinians have agreed on the basis to resume peace talks. Here is a chronology of events: 1991: – Nov 1: The Madrid Peace Conference sets peace process framework. 1993: – Sept 13: Israel and […]
by Ruth Pollard Middle East Correspondent The Sydney Morning Herald Cairo: A tiny woman dressed all in black sits at a crowded communal table in the Cairo neighbourhood of Agouza, […]
By Associated Press, Published: July 20 WASHINGTON POST TRAPPES, France — About 250 people hurling projectiles clashed with police firing tear gas west of Paris, in apparent protest over enforcement of […]
Reuters | Jul 20, 2013 | ARABNEWS NAJAF — The civil war in Syria is widening a rift between top Shiite Muslim clergy in Iraq and Iran who have taken […]
RAMALLAH — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas invited Arabs and Muslims to visit the Palestinian territories to show support for the Palestinian economy and the steadfastness of the people. In a […]
ANKARA: ARAB NEWS Friday 19 July 2013 The National Campaign for Syrian refugees has distributed 70,000 food kits as part of the second phase of the Ramadan relief for Syrian refugees in the Syrian-Turkish border towns, a campaign official said. The aid also consists of hygienic materials. “The campaign aims […]
DAMMAM: ARAB NEWS Sunday 21 July 2013 The organs of a 20-year-old brain-dead woman have been used to provide transplants for seven patients in Riyadh and Dammam. The Shafah Al-Hasna Committee, linked to the Society for Organ Donation (Ethar), succeeded in obtaining an agreement for the organs of the woman […]
JEDDAH: RIMA AL-MUKHTAR & FOUZIA KHAN Friday 19 July 2013 This year’s Bisat Al-Reeh festival has been successful because it helped showcase the talent and innovation of Saudi businesswomen.’ This […]
By. Zubair Khan Almost 60 kilometer (km) away in South West of Frankfurt, members of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Germany celebrated the opening ceremony of first ever custom built and […]
Source: LUBP It is not merely the faith or oil that flows out of Saudi Arabia. The oil-rich Arab state and its neighbours are busy financing Wahabi and Salafi militants across the globe. [In Pakistan and Afghanistan, Wahhabi-Salafi ideology has been able to recruit Deobandi (semi-Wahhabi) militants to implement its […]
Source: LUBP According to empirical data collected by the University of Pennsylvania, radical Deobandi militants belonging to Sipah-e-Sahaba (currently operating as Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat Deobandi ASWJ or Lashkar-e-Jhangvi LeJ) allied with another Deobandi outfit Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) are responsible for 95% of terrorists activities in Pakistan. More Details:
by John Glaser, July 19, 2013 Secretary of State John Kerry has now gone to Israel-Palestine six times in five months in an attempt to restart negotiations between the two […]
Source: Herald Net LYNNWOOD — Fasting is an act of worship, a historic tradition and a test of obedience and holiness. Fasting deepens one’s connection to God. It encourages charity […]
Source. The Economist: AFTER we die, our bodies are reduced to dust or ash, through burial or cremation. The fate of the digital corpuses we leave behind is rather more complicated. Before the advent of internet-hosted storage and services, your digital remains would have been accessible only to those with […]
Source: The Conservative Papers: Islamic terror attacks occur every single day around the world. Most are barely mentioned by the Western media, and if they are, they are hidden behind other stories which apparently make better headlines. A car bomb here, a beheading there, and a few dozen rapes and […]
RIYADH: ARAB NEWS Saturday 20 July 2013 The family of a Saudi national slain by a Filipino worker now on death row is expected to sign a settlement agreement to accept blood money that will free the condemned man. Rodelio “Dondon” Lanuza, who was sentenced to death in 2001 for […]
Source: The conservative papers. The director general of Saudi Arabian Airlines on Friday defended his company’s decision to discriminate against Israeli citizens by refusing to fly them from U.S. airports even when passengers are simply looking to transfer in Saudi Arabia to another country, Al Arabiya reports. Saudi King Abdullah Bowls Earlier […]
Source: The Conservative Papers. Barack Obama and his merry band of extremists are some of the most out-of-the-mainstream operatives in American politics today and the woman who is our US Security Council to the UN has a long history of essentially calling for the destruction of Israel, our only true ally in […]
STORY SUMMARY By Ali Ezzatyar The Daily Star In February 2011, when the Egyptian military helped oust President Hosni Mubarak, it was natural to think of the applicability of the Turkish precedent to Egypt. One of former President Mohammad Mursi’s goals was to take power out of the hands of […]