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.
White House makes miraculous discovery to distract from domestic scandals Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com June 14, 2013 Ben Rhodes, the White House national security advisor behind the claim that President […]
by Ramzi Baroud My friend Hanna is Syrian and also happens to be Christian. The latter fact was rarely of consequence, except whenever he wished to boast about the contributions […]
We Created Al Qaeda to Fight the Soviets in Afghanistan Jimmy Carter’s National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski admitted on CNN that the U.S. organized and supported Bin Laden and the […]
By Khalid Abubaker, OnIslam Correspondent Thursday, 13 June 2013 00:00 Today, hijab has become a common sight in Malawi with many Muslim women proudly donning the outfit LILONGWE – Long […]
By Rafiu Oriyomi OnIslam Correspondent Thursday, 13 June 2013 00:00 The court described the demolition of the mosque erected by Muslim students as “utterly illegal and unlawful” LAGOS – Thanks […]
Source: Asia Times: By Ramzy Baroud My friend Hanna is Syrian, and happens to be Christian. The latter fact was in the past rarely of consequence, except when he wished to boast about the contributions of Arab Christians to Middle Eastern cultures. Of course, he was right. The modern Arab […]
Source: Asia Times: By M K Bhadrakumar The United States may have administered one of the biggest-ever snubs to the Kremlin in the post-Cold War era with the White House announcement on Thursday that it will provide military support to the Syrian rebels. The announcement in Washington said: Following a […]
Source: TOI The Dalai Lama waded into Australia’s bitter gender war Thursday, saying his successor as the spiritual leader of the Tibetans could be a woman. (AFP) More:
Source: TOI LONDON: Prince William, second-in-line to the throne, will be first British king with proven Indian ancestry, DNA analysis has revealed. The DNA analysis of saliva samples taken from the Duke of Cambridge’s relatives have established a direct lineage between the 30-year-old prince and an Indian housekeeper on his […]
Source: The Local Insurance companies have long known that women are safer drivers than men – but now it seems attitudes have caught up with reality, and Germans are more likely to trust a woman in a car than a man. More:
The US is to supply direct military aid to the Syrian opposition for the first time, the White House has announced. President Obama made the decision after his administration concluded Syrian forces under Bashar al-Assad were using chemical weapons, a spokesman said. Ben Rhodes did not give details about the […]
IBN TAYMIYYAH ARABNEWS Friday 14 June 2013 Allah the Most High, said: “But if we let man taste the good favors after poverty and harm have touched him, he is […]
JEDDAH: IBRAHIM NAFFEE Friday 14 June 2013 ARABNEWS Private companies who have not legalized the work status of their expatriate employees are planning to lay them off due to fears of expected raids by labor authorities. Some 3 million expatriate workers are threatened with redundancy. Many of these companies do […]
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon attends first joint meeting with Kuwaitis and Iraqis The Kuwait News Agency (KUNA), quoted Ambassador Mansour Ayyad Al Otaibi as saying that the Secretary-General had called […]
Source: NY Times: ISTANBUL — Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday toughened his stance against demonstrators who continued to occupy a park in central Istanbul just one day after he met with leaders of the protest movement for the first time, declaring in a nationally televised speech that the […]
Source: Press Desk AMJ-UK Deputy Prime Minister, Secretaries of State and Parliamentarians welcome Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad to Westminster The World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat and Fifth Khalifa, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, […]
By Raniah Salloum European Femen activists have been sentenced to four months in prison for their topless protest in the Tunisian capital last month. Now the country’s opposition leader, herself […]
Reuters in Addis Ababa guardian.co.uk, Thursday 13 June 2013 15.05 BST Ethiopia’s parliament has unanimously ratified a treaty that strips Egypt of its right to the lion’s share of the […]
Source: Asia Times. By Yousaf Butt The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was designed as an apolitical technical agency that – among other things – takes regular accounting of member states’ nuclear material to make sure none is diverted to weapons uses. However, the agency has been veering from its […]
We look at the impact of increased sanctions against the Islamic Republic and ask who it really affects. The United States has unveiled aggressive new sanctions targeting Iran’s currency and car industry that are among the toughest yet. They are aimed at making Iranian money all but unusable outside the […]