‘Zamzam is best water on earth’
EDDAH: ARAB NEWS Wednesday 17 July 2013 Makkah’s Zamzam Well has the best drinking water on the face of the earth. Pilgrims at the Grand Mosque make sure they drink […]
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Rafiq A. Tschannen
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.
The pain of a Syrian … (student-in-exile)
(as copied from the facebook page of a 19 year old Syrian student-in-exile. I did not ask his permission to publish this here in The Muslim Times, therefore I am withholding the name at the moment) You see during war it’s not just physical destruction, not just death, not just […]
150 Million Europeans Hate Israel
Source: Conservative Papers. by Simon Plosker In the first part of our exclusive interview, Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld posited that today, well over 150 million Europeans believe that Israel is exterminating the Palestinians. Since the interview was published, Gerstenfeld’s views have been featured in The Times of Israel and a debate […]
The man with no memory
Source: CNN When police found the unconscious man in a Southern California Motel 6, the IDs on him said he was Michael Thomas Boatwright from Florida. But when the man awoke at Desert Regional Medical Center a few days later, he said he’d never heard of Boatwright. He didn’t recall […]
Syria’s children deserve chance to be kids again
Source: By Lucy Liu, Special to CNN Bekaa Valley, Lebanon (CNN) — In my nine years as a UNICEF ambassador, I’ve been to camps for people displaced by conflict. Though hardly luxurious, they usually have some kind of structure: a water source, latrines, even schools. In Lebanon, even the most […]
Scottish Schools Focus on More Than Just Tests
Source: NY Times: Perhaps English parents and policy makers would do better to turn their attention slightly less far north. Education in Scotland has long been run differently from the rest of Britain. While schools in England encouraged students to specialize, Scottish schools traditionally aimed for a greater breadth of […]
Syrian university strips Turkish PM of PhD
Source: TOI DAMASCUS: Syria’s Aleppo University has stripped Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of an honorary doctorate citing his support for Syrian rebels and crackdown on Turkish protesters, state media reported on Tuesday. More:
Meet a moderate Syrian insurgent
Source: Asia Times: By Pepe Escobar Hi, my name is Mostafa and I’ll be your moderate insurgent today. I’m addressing you all because we badly need your help. We could have started a Facebook page, like We Need Your Weapons or something, or ask the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights […]
Pakistan’s religious extremists leave for ‘greener pastures’
Source: Dawn: ISLAMABAD: Suleman spent years targeting members of the Shia community in his home country of Pakistan as a member of sectarian terrorist group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ). Now he is on his way to a new sectarian battleground, Syria, where he plans to join rebels battling President Bashar Assad’s regime. […]
Opinions: What really breaks Syria – “The U.S. slaughtered the wrong pig”
By Dr. Jürgen Todenhöfer The U.S. slaughtered the wrong pig. (google translate from German being used, please excuse the grammar). Six times I visited Syria in the last two years, […]
Aurangzeb and Islamic Rule in India
When historians look back at Muslim rule in India, their perspective greatly shapes the way they present historical characters. Some people are seen as great and enlightened leaders, while others […]
Mecca Clock Tower Photo Shows Kaaba In The Shadow Of Abraj Al-Bait Building
The Huffington Post | Yasmine Hafiz The Masjid Al-Haram is an iconic image for millions of Muslims who dream of making the once-in-a-lifetime Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, but its silhouette […]
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood shows signs of fracturing after Morsi’s fall
By Charlene Gubash, Producer, NBC News CAIRO – Just last month, the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood had a lock on Egypt’s presidency and parliament. Now, after mass protests backed by the country’s military swept President Mohammed Morsi from power, the organization venerated throughout the Muslim world for its discipline, ministry to […]
Egypt’s Sphinx casts eyes on Syria
Source: Asia Times: By M K Bhadrakumar It looks increasingly that solving the Egyptian puzzle is going to take us all to Syria. How far the army’s coup in Egypt resets the geopolitics of the Middle East, or, conversely, whether the coup itself forms the commencement of a region-wide tectonic […]
What the Abbottabad report didn’t reveal
Source: Asia Times: By Sameer Patil Al Jazeera TV’s leak on July 8 of a classified report on the US military raid in Abbottabad, which killed Osama bin Laden, has triggered a controversy in Pakistan. The report holds former President Pervez Musharraf – who was also the former army General […]
MIXING RELIGION WITH POLITICS
Source: Daily Star MIXING RELIGION WITH POLITICS An otherwise little known group Hefazat-e-Islam has become instrumental in winning election, especially at a time when everyone has thought that secularism in Bangladesh taking a strong foothold. Political use of religion–especially Islam–is back, and it seems to have all the ingredients to […]
War trial: 90 years for Ghulam Azam
Source: Daily Star Former Jamaat-e-Islami chief Ghulam Azam has been handed 90-year jail for his role in the murder and genocide of the independence-seeking people of the land who were fighting occupation Pakistani army in 1971. All the five charges, which include murder and torture of unarmed people, conspiracy, planning, […]
Where there is no separation of religion and state
Source: Asia Times: By Hossein Askari: Professor of Business and International Affairs at the George Washington University. The global media almost never questions the religious credentials of politicians and rulers around […]
Why has chaos emerged from sublime Arab culture?
STORY SUMMARY Hisham Melhem, a prominent Lebanese journalist, recalls an emotional visit to the Great Mosque of Cordoba in Spain last May. That question of lost greatness has vexed Arabs […]
Netanyahu says he may have to act before US on Iran
WASHINGTON — Iran is moving “closer and closer” to building a nuclear weapon and Israel may have to act before the United States does, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Sunday. “They’re edging up to the red line. They haven’t crossed it yet,” Netanyahu said on CBS News’s “Face the […]