Some Old Wikileaks on Ahmadiyya Muslims issue
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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.
Riyadh hopes for warm ties with Tehran under Rowhani
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Monday 17 June 2013 Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah yesterday congratulated Hassan Rowhani on his election as the new president of Iran, while welcoming […]
Hamdallah becomes first Palestinian PM to visit Al Aqsa
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — New Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah visited Al Aqsa Mosque in the Old City of Jerusalem on Sunday, the official WAFA news agency reported. Al Aqsa, Islam’s […]
Europe’s reluctant hegemon
Source: The Economist: From the football pitch to politics to the economy, Germany has become Europe’s most powerful country. Described by this newspaper as the sick man of Europe in 1999, Germany now appears to have the continent’s strongest as well as its biggest economy. It accounts for a fifth […]
Iran to send 4,000 troops to aid President Assad forces in Syria
by Robert Fisk, The Independent, UK World Exclusive: US urges UK and France to join in supplying arms to Syrian rebels as MPs fear that UK will be drawn into growing conflict Washington’s decision to arm Syria’s Sunni Muslim rebels has plunged America into the great Sunni-Shia conflict of the […]
As the US wants to arm ‘nice Syrian rebels’ we must remind ourselves that weapons are not just guns. They are about money – Hardware will end up in the hands of al-Qa’ida, says Robert Fisk
Tosh! That’s the only sane reaction to the White House’s announcement that America the Brave is to arm the Syrian rebels. The US doesn’t plan to send weapons to the horrid rebels, mark you – not to the al-Qa’ida-inspired al-Nusra Front whose chaps film themselves eating Alawites for YouTube videos, […]
POST-LEAK FALLOUT: Swiss president calls for foreign spy inquiries
June 16, 2013 – 12:32 In response to an American whistleblower’s revelations of US spies operating in Geneva, Swiss president Ueli Maurer has called for a broadening of legislation to allow for investigations into foreign spy activity in Switzerland. “We have known for a long time that foreign information-gathering activities […]
‘With Rouhani in office West will have to negotiate sanctions lift’
Now that moderate Iranian cleric Hassan Rouhani is set to assume the presidency, the West will have to get to the negotiating table to talk to Tehran in a serious […]
UK planned war on Syria before unrest began: French ex-foreign minister
A former French foreign minister says Britain had been planning a war against Syria some two years before to the unrest broke out in the Arab country. The statement by […]
Private money pours into Syrian conflict as rich donors pick sides
By Joby Warrick, Sunday, June 16, 2013 DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Syrian tanks were closing in on the rebel-held town of Qusair last month when a Kuwaiti sheik named […]
Switzerland: FAST TRACK Quicker decisions expected for asylum seekers
June 14, 2013 – 16:40 The Swiss authorities have presented their latest proposed revision of the country’s asylum legislation, aimed notably at cutting the time needed to process requests from 1,400 days today to just 140 in most cases. Speaking in Bern on Friday, Justice Minister Simonetta Sommaruga said the […]
Thousands of Egypt Islamists rally for Syria jihad
AFP | Jun 15, 2013 | 23:38 JORDAN TIMES CAIRO — Thousands of Islamists rallied in the Egyptian capital this weekend in support of calls by Sunni Muslim clerics for a holy war against the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad. The demonstration took place outside a Cairo mosque on […]
Four stabbed in British mosque attack
AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE ARABNEWS Sunday 16 June 2013 LONDON: Four men including a police officer were in hospital hospital Sunday after being stabbed during an attack at a mosque in […]
Postpone Haj if you can
JEDDAH: P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR ARABNEWS Sunday 16 June 2013 In an unprecedented move aimed at preventing congestion and stampedes and ensuring safety of the guests of God, Saudi authorities have […]
Female suicide bomber carried out Quetta attack: Security sources
Source: ET A firefighter stands near a burning bus after a bomb attack in Quetta June 15, 2013. PHOTO: REUTERS QUETTA: The bomb attack on Sardar Bahadur Khan University, Quetta – which killed 14 female students – was carried out by a female suicide bomber, Express Newsreported, quoting security sources on Sunday. […]
How Atatürk Made Turkey Secular (with the current unrest in Turkey we should try to understand more of its history).
The evolution of Turkey in the early 1900s is one of the most baffling cultural and social changes in Islamic history. In a few short years, the Ottoman Empire […]
Saudi Arabia: Islamic scholars, legal experts and aid workers exchange views
Saudi Arabia: Islamic scholars, legal experts and aid workers exchange views 12-06-2013 News Release 13/105 Kuwait (ICRC) – A three-day workshop on the rights and obligations of humanitarian workers within the scope of international humanitarian law and Islamic jurisprudence concluded in Jeddah today. Approximately 75 aid workers, representatives of non-governmental […]
English Channel tunnel opened to German rail
Source: The Local After three years of studies, the commission in charge of tunnel security has given Deutsche Bahn permission to operate its trains in the Channel tunnel, a statement from the operator of the tunnel rail link said. Contacted by AFP, Eurotunnel could not say when the first German […]
Early results give Iran moderate clear lead
Source: ET TEHRAN: Moderate cleric Hassan Rowhani, bolstered by a late surge in support from suppressed Iranian reformists, took an early lead in the presidential election to find a successor to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, initial results showed Saturday. The first round results gave Rowhani 52 percent of the vote, more than three […]
The Ahmadis have suffered massacres, discrimination of many kinds and other abuse.
Source: ET Allowing injustices to continue against Ahmadis in our society simply encourages others to act in a similar fashion. PHOTO: The Ahmadis have suffered massacres, discrimination of many kinds and other abuse. They need to be offered the protection that should be available to every citizen of Pakistan, regardless of […]