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.
Source: Spiegel. Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich officially confirmed for the first time that there were German “jihadists” in Syria. Friedrich particularly expressed concern about “calls for those Europeans who have been trained in battle (in Syria) to return home and pursue jihad.” More:
Source:The Local. What do you buy a multi-millionaire who also happens to be the leader of the free world? Angela Merkel gave him a set of golf putters – and presented his wife with six bottles of wine. More:
Source:The Local Uli Hoeneß is thought to have hidden millions of euros in Switzerland, safely out of sight of the German tax man. If he is proven guilty, the football legend will no longer be able to lead FC Bayern Munich as he has, comments ZEIT ONLINE‘s Oliver Fritsch. More:
As the usual culprits persist in their usual campaigns against postrevolution Egypt, the government endeavors to boost tourism in many innovative as well as classical ways. Source: IKHWAN WEB – […]
Saudi man yields to fiancée’s demand to marry her three friends By Staff EMIRATES 24/7 Published Monday, September 10, 2012 A Saudi man who finally decided to marry his long-standing fiancée got the shock of his life when she demanded that he first marry her three friends. Once he overcame […]
Source: ET Elections are all we have got and are unquestionably better than any other alternatives. Freddie Mercury’s “The Show must go on” is all one can think of. And so it must, yet at an agonisingly high cost. “On with the Show” then, however this is messed up, this […]
Source: TOI BAGHDAD: Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki pointed a finger on Saturday at the civil war in neighbouring Syria for the return of sectarian strife to Iraq, as a five-day wave of violence has killed 215 people. And the head of the Sahwa anti-Qaida militia forces threatened war on […]
Source: TOI KABUL: The Taliban in Afghanistan vowed on Saturday to start a new campaign of mass suicide attacks on foreign military bases and diplomatic areas, as well as damaging “insider attacks”, as part of a new spring offensive this year. The offensive was announced via emails from Taliban spokesmen. […]
Source:Indian Express A Pakistani man has petitioned the Supreme Court to extend Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry’s tenure for about two years, saying he should be compensated for the period when he was deposed by former dictator Pervez Musharraf. Imtiaz Rasheed Qureshi of Save Judiciary Committee filed a constitutional petition in […]
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By Patrick J. McDonnell April 26, 2013 BEIRUT — In a strong message of solidarity, Muslim clerics across Damascus on Friday denounced the kidnapping earlier this week of a pair […]
CAIRO (AP) — An alleged romance between an Egyptian Muslim college student and a Coptic Christian man heightened sectarian tension on Friday in a small rural Egyptian town where police fired tear gas to disperse stone-throwing Muslims who surrounded a Coptic church in anger over the inter-faith relationship, a security […]
Source:The daily Beast. The day after last week’s attack in Boston, David Sirota wrote a column for Salon entitled “Let’s Hope the Boston Marathon Bomber Is a White American,” arguing that this would limit the resulting crackdown on civil liberties. At first, conservatives were appalled. Then, when police fingered the […]
Source: The daily beast. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s diplomatic initiative to host talks between Afghan and Pakistani leaders in Brussels this week was a timely step meant to reset tense relations between the two South Asian neighbors, and revive stalled talks with the Taliban as the 2014 deadline […]
Source: NY Times: A Punjabi show has married Canada’s national pastime with the sounds of the Indian subcontinent, providing a glimpse into the changing face of hockey. Read More:
Source:Spiegel In the opening chapter of “The Jewish Candidate,” Frank Carver, a reporter for the fictitious London Chronicle, is posted to Germany to cover the country’s most-fascinating election campaign since World War II. Rudolf Gutman, the first Jew to run for chancellor, is promising to free Germany from the shackles […]
Source:Vanguard via Wasim Sr. The Majlis Khuddam-ul-Ahmadiyya of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Organisation, has charged leaders at various level of governance to lead by example, show justice and equity and eschew all forms of vegeance inorder to move the nation forward. The cahrge was contained in a communique issued at […]
Source: NY Times. By JULFIKAR ALI MANIK, STEVEN GREENHOUSE and JIM YARDLEY DHAKA, Bangladesh — As the search for survivors continued on Friday in one of the worst manufacturing disasters in history, pointed questions were being raised about why a factory building in Bangladesh was not padlocked after terrified workers […]
The Muslim Times Editor for Pakistan Credit: Dawn.com AFP | 22nd April, 2013 LAHORE: Some 200,000 members of Pakistan’s minority Ahmadi community will boycott next month’s election in protest at […]
AMMAN — Arab Bank on Thursday said a New York federal court has rejected some of the lawsuits filed against the financial institution that alleged it provided banking services to […]