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: Daily Star Abdul Hamid takes oath as the 20th president of the country at Bangabhaban Darbar Hall in the capital on Wednesday. Photo: BSS Abdul Hamid has taken oath as the 20th president of the country Wednesday. Acting Speaker Shawkat Ali administered the oath to Hamid at Bangabhaban […]
Source: BDNews 24 Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has thanked the opposition parties for withdrawing its general strike to facilitate rescue work at Savar. At least 80 people were killed and over 800 others injured when the nine-storied Rana Plaza caved in on Wednesday. The number of casualties is feared to […]
Source: USA Today & NY Times BY Julhas Alam, Associated Press SAVAR, Bangladesh (AP) — An eight-story building housing several garment factories collapsed near Bangladesh’s capital on Wednesday, killing at least 87 people and trapping many more under a jumbled mess of concrete. Rescuers tried to cut through the […]
Courtesy: CNN Editor’s note: Dean Obeidallah, a former attorney, is a political comedian and frequent commentator on various TV networks including CNN. He is the co-director of the upcoming documentary “The Muslims Are Coming!” and co-host of a new CNN podcast “The Big Three” that looks at the top three […]
There is no difference between my youth and old age!” declared Nasruddin at the teahouse one day. “I’m just as strong as I was twenty years ago.” “Is that so‽” Hamza replied, always willing to challenge the Mullah on his boasting. “This is a boulder in the city garden that […]
Activists in the Irish city of Cork have added their own touches to ads that appeared on bus shelters in their city that call on people to “Visit Israel.” The […]
Source: Asia Times: By Akbar Ahmed and Harrison Akins “When you leave a seed from a tree to grow in a pagoda, it seems so small at first. But you know you must cut it out before it grows and destroys the building.” These spoken words are a metaphor for […]
Amena Saleem The Electronic Intifada London 23 April 2013 The American poet T.S. Eliot wrote that “April is the cruelest month.” The phrase springs to mind in April 2013, the month that a new director-general took up his post at the BBC and, within two weeks, had installed a line-up […]
Source: Asia Times: By Tom Engelhardt Chalmers Johnson’s book Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire was published in March 2000 – and just about no one noticed. Until then, blowback had been an obscure term of CIA tradecraft, which Johnson defined as ”the unintended consequences of policies that […]
Source: Spiegel. After last week’s terror attacks in Boston, Americans themselves seem to have been surprised by their measured response. The more they get to know about the Tsarnaev brothers, though, the more it will become clear that they will now have to get used to a new breed of […]
Source: The Local Most Germans love to show how well they speak English, but they often misuse or even make up their own English vocabulary. We gathered up the worst offenders for this week’s The Local List. Click HERE for these words.
By Lynsay Williams | The Daily Tar Heel A little more than a week after the bombings at the Boston Marathon, Muslims in the Triangle came together Tuesday to promote Islam as a peaceful religion. The event, held in the Frank Porter Student Union and attended by about 60, was […]
Would you like to read the Holy Quran in English? please click here: You can search the entire text for any special point of interest to you. * * * […]
Source:RT.Com via Wasim Sr. Video footage allegedly showing Kindergarten-aged children firing an arsenal of heavy firepower at a terrorist training camp in Pakistan’s tribal area has surfaced online. Young children garbed in shalwar kameez can be seen lined up in neat rows, straining under the recoil as they fire semi-automatic […]
JEDDAH: JASSIM ABUZAID ARABNEWS Wednesday 24 April 2013 The office of the Ministry of Islamic and Endowment Affairs in Makkah has barred non-Saudis from being imams and muezzins. Abdullah Al-Nasser, head of the ministry’s office in Makkah, said there will be no exception to the ruling, a local newspaper reported. […]
AFP | Apr 23, 2013 | 23:31 JORDAN TIMES RAMALLAH — An Israeli-held Palestinian prisoner on a life-threatening hunger strike has agreed to end his fast in return for his early release, his lawyer said on Tuesday. Under terms of the deal, Samer Issawi, who has intermittently refused food since […]
AMMAN — Jordan’s security and stability is not a coincidence, but it is the result of the hard work and determination of the Jordanian people, His Majesty King Abdullah said […]
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For terrorists, the prison experience can be harrowing, especially in other countries where civil rights aren’t a thing. However, in Saudi Arabia, prison for terrorists is eerily like a resort […]
King urges swift, effective solution to escalating Syria crisis AMMAN — His Majesty King Abdullah on Monday emphasised the important role US Arab and Islamic organisations can play in communicating […]