Historic Uhud turned into a marketplace
MADINAH: YUSUF MUHAMMAD ARABNEWS Friday 19 July 2013 Uhud in Madinah was the scene of one of the most significant battles in early Islamic history, when the Muslim forces under […]
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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.
Deadline extension lets more perform Umrah
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Friday 19 July 2013 Saudi Arabia has extended the deadline for Umrah visa applications from Ramadan 10 to 15 in order to allow more faithful to perform […]
The 9/11 Phone Calls: Disturbing Irregularities Uncovered in the Calls that Flashed around the World
NEW YORK, May 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — America first learned of the 9/11 hijackings from Solicitor-General Ted Olson, who reported two calls from his wife, well-known CNN commentator Barbara Olson. […]
France’s Marianne muse stirs pot with anti-Islam tweet
France24: The leader of feminist activist group Femen, Inna Shevchenko, on Tuesday sparked an online controversy after posting an anti-Islam message to her Twitter account. Shevchenko is one of the inspirations for France’s new official stamp depicting Marianne, the feminine symbol of the French Republic – a fact that makes […]
Mujaheed guilty of war crimes
Source: BD News 24 By Suliman Niloy, Golam Mujtaba Dhrubo, Quazi Shahreen Haq and Kamal Hossain Talukder, bdnews24.com Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujaheed has been found guilty of five war crimes charges, including mass murder of intellectuals during the 1971 Liberation War. International Crimes Tribunal-2 said although two other incidents […]
World Bank: Emergency Assistance for Jordan to Cope with Impacts of Syrian Crisis
World Bank project to shore up basic services to households under pressure from hosting massive influx of refugees WASHINGTON, July 18, 2013 – Jordan has welcomed hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing the conflict in Syria, but the sudden increase in population has put immense pressure on both its economy […]
Detroit files for biggest bankruptcy in U.S. history
Nancy Kaffer, Stephen Henderson and Matt Helms, Detroit Free Press 4:41 p.m. EDT July 18, 2013 DETROIT — The city of Detroit filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection in federal […]
EUROPE’S LOST CHILDREN: Journeys of Despair – and joy
Immigrants fleeing violence pay people smugglers thousands of dollars to enter Europe through Greece. The exodus includes children, alone and at risk. Their dreams are big, but the reality far different. Story, Irene Chapple. Film, Wojciech Treszczynski. Photo, Giorgos Moutafis Sisters’ tears for broken family Arazu has dressed carefully for […]
Pakistan’s first sect-free mosque calls for end to discrimination
Source: Dawn.Com Despite the heightened sectarian strife that plagues Pakistan, the Darul Iman Jamia Masjid Qurtuba has no qualms in declaring its message loud and clear. A bold tag welcomes the followers to the mosque stating: “This mosque does not discriminate between any sects and welcomes all Muslims.” Considering the […]
Church’s ‘No. 1 Enemy’
Source: Spiegel: He’s loved by his congregation but loathed by the archbishop. Rebellious priest Wojciech Lemanski is seen as the church’s No. 1 enemy in Poland. His dismissal highlights the deep divide between church authorities and the faithful in this staunchly Catholic nation. More:
Married to the mortgage
Source: The Economist: CHINA’s communists attacked many bourgeois institutions after taking power in 1949. But marriage was not one of them. On the contrary, they enacted a marriage law in 1950, four years before they introduced a constitution. The pressure to marry remains heavy in today’s China, where almost 80% […]
Imam gunned down in Karachi
Source: ET KARACHI: Unidentified persons gunned down the imam of a Jamia Masjid in the area of Gul Bahar, just after he had stepped out of the mosque after offering his afternoon prayers, reported Express News on Thursday. According to initial details a 9mm pistol was used and the victim, Maulana […]
Your task is not to seek for love …
Source: Dawn.Com By Arieb Azhar: The depth of one’s spirituality is directly proportionate to one’s level of tolerance for other people’s beliefs. This means the more convinced a person is in his/her own beliefs and convictions; the less that person should be bothered by the beliefs of others. This is […]
Political Islam: Rise, fragmentation and possible fall
Source: Dawn.Com Unlike most political ideologies whose adherents by and large agree with the definitional tags attributed to their respective ideologies and ideologues, Political Islam is more of an academic concoction. It works as an analytical umbrella under which political analysts lump various forces that claim to be using historical […]
Pakistan’s New Leader Is the Latest to Seek ‘Peace’ Deal With Terrorists
Source: Conservative Papers: (CNSNews.com) – Pakistan’s new Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is planning to hold talks with jihadists, including the umbrella group known as the Pakistani Taliban, despite the failure of numerous similar initiatives over the past seven years. Campaigning ahead of the general election last May, Sharif pledged to […]
Obama to Save Presidency by Bombing Iran?
Source: Conservative Papers: I wrote an article 3½ years ago, at a low moment in Obama’s first term, when his ratings tanked and his party just lost Edward Kennedy’s senate seat to a Republican, that usefully suggested that Obama could “salvage his tottering administration” by taking “dramatic gesture to change […]
PayPal accidentally credits man $92 quadrillion
Source: TOI NEW YORK: Oops! PayPal, the online money-transfer company, has accidentally credited a man in Delaware a whopping $92,233,720,368,547,800, making him by far the richest man in the world. Chris Reynolds, 56, said he was shocked when he received his monthly statement via e-mail from PayPal last week, with […]
University of California Regents confirm Muslim student to board
By MIHIR ZAVERI and LISA LEFF Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO—The University of California’s governing board confirmed its first Muslim student member Wednesday, despite some Jewish groups’ claims that she marginalized […]
Switzerland: MYSTERIOUS DECLINE: Asylum demands drop away
July 16, 2013 – 22:08 Asylum requests in Switzerland fell by almost by a third during the first six months of the year when compared with figures for the same period of 2012. Officials are at a loss to explain why, but do not expect the trend to continue. Between […]
Kurds drive Al-Qaeda fighters out of Ras al-Ain
STORY SUMMARY Kurdish fighters expelled jihadists from the Syrian flashpoint frontier town of Ras al-Ain and the nearby border crossing with Turkey, activists said Wednesday, in escalating fighting that could signal another front in Syria’s fractious civil war.Kurdish fighters took total control of Ras al-Ain “after 24 hours of fighting. […]