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.
FORTUNE — A disastrous share offering in Madrid earlier this week portends continued economic trouble for Spain and, quite possibly, for the European Union. Shares of Bankia, the nationalized Spanish lender, fell by as much as 21% Tuesday as the bank issued 11.5 billion new shares in a bid to […]
Source: LUBP While the world is being wrecked by terrorist acts of Wahhabi-Deobandi extremists right from Boston to Woolwich and Madrid to Kabul, a concerted effort is being made to hide the central role of the supremacist, totalitarian ideology that is being spread by Saudi Arabia. More:
Source: LUBP The Majlis-e-Shoora will soon meet in Islamabad, the seat of the caliphate. Its first act will be to pass the twenty first amendment to the constitution, so that your brother is recognised as the Commander of the Faithful, the Caliph of Islam and Chief Zookeeper of Jati Umra. […]
Source: LUBP Here is a translation of Wahhabi Deobandi Jihadists of Pakistan eulogizing the horrible beheading of a British soldier in Woolwich, London. More:
Source: Asia Times. By Alper Birdal and Yigit Gunay A bombing in the Turkish town of Reyhanli on May 11 killed 51 people but was largely ignored by Turkish media. Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan blamed the Syrian government – with no evidence. Turkish hacker collective RedHack claims here that […]
Source: Asia Times. By Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed The brutal murder of an off-duty British soldier in broad daylight in the southeast London district of Woolwich raises new questions about the British government’s national security strategy, at home and abroad. Officials have highlighted the danger of “self-radicalizing” cells inspired by Internet […]
Source: TOI BEIRUT: The Syrian president has told Lebanon’s Hezbollah-owned TV station that Damascus received the first shipment of Russian air defense missiles, according to remarks released on Thursday. Bashar Assad’s comment on the arrival of the long-range S-300 air defense missiles in Syria will further ratchet up tensions in […]
Source: The Conservative Papers. UPDATE: The source informed media sources hours after this story was posted that the Islamic regime ruling Iran is in preparation for a major cyber attack very soon on major U.S. facilities – to send a warning to the U.S. that the regime is capable of […]
Source: The Conversative Papers. Muslim MK Ibrahim Sarsour (Ra’am-Ta’al) has reintroduced legislation that would lower the threshold for what is considered a racist offense and would ban the publication of materials that disparage the prophet Muhammad through a “cartoon, defamation and insult,” the Yisrael Hayom newspaper reported on Tuesday. Sarsour […]
Russian extreme sports star Valery Rozov successfully carries out the world’s highest base jump, leaping off the north face of Mount Everest. The extreme sports enthusiast leaped off Mount Everest to mark 60 years since Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norgay conquered the world’s highest mountain. Valery Rozov, 48, spent more […]
Source:The Economist. ONE of India’s bigger private-sector employers can be found in Patna, the capital of Bihar, a poor, populous state in the east of the country. Narendra Kumar Singh, the boss, has three gold rings on his right hand and arms big enough to crush rocks. His firm, Frontline, […]
Source: The Economist. Trends used to be set by majority-Muslim countries in the Middle East and South-East Asia. Now they come as much from the Muslim minorities in the West. Nestlé, which decades ago was one of the first Western firms to spy the potential, has since the 1980s made […]
Report and Appeal to the International community to support a process of dialogue and reconciliation in Syria between its people and Syrian government and reject outside intervention and war. After […]
By Samir Salama, Associate EditorPublished: 19:10 May 27, 2013 Abu Dhabi: Islam and secularism have much in common as both cherish human rights and justice, a regional conference on the […]
A US soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians in two rampages last year will plead guilty to avoid the death penalty, his lawyers say. Staff Sgt Robert Bales will […]
After regional and international stances became clear, the struggle in Syria and over Syria has become clear. This is a war that will alter the region’s map. If Bashar al-Assad’s regime survives, Hezbollah and Iran win as well. Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to say that this is crucial […]
by Urs Geiser, swissinfo.ch May 29, 2013 – 17:01 A reform aimed at tightening asylum laws is poised for approval at the ballot box next month, but a rightwing proposal […]
Foreign affairs chief Omer Celik states June meeting is only chance for nations to salvage credibility after 80,000 deaths Julian Borger in Ankara, Ian Traynor Brussels guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 29 May 2013 If the planned Geneva peace talks on Syria fail, it will mark the end of the road for attempts […]
Frank Ledwidge, author of damning study Investment in Blood, says failing, bloody campaign has cost £2,000 per UK household by Richard Norton-Taylor The Guardian, Thursday 30 May 2013 The war […]
Source: The Daily Star By SUSHMITA S PREETHA Workers of Outwear Fashions Ltd take to the streets in Sheorapara in the capital demanding better pay and longer maternity leave. They blocked Rokeya Sarani and called on garment workers of other factories to join them. The workers of other factories, however, refused. […]