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: NY Times/AP DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh’s government plans to raise the minimum wage for garment workers after the deaths of more than 1,100 people in the collapse of a factory building focused attention on the textile industry’s dismal pay and hazardous working conditions. A new minimum wage board […]
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Source: LA Times: Names and money, it turns out, have some correlation. According to a survey of top earners, the shorter the name, the higher the salary is likely to be. Or at least, people with high salaries tend to have very short names. Before you go changing your moniker […]
Source: LATIMES. In the post-9/11 culture wars over Islamic fundamentalism, American conservatives — properly — have condemned attempts in Muslim countries to punish blasphemy or insults to the prophet Muhammad. It will be interesting to see if they are similarly outraged over what has happened to an art student at […]
Source: LATIMES: ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s overwhelming victory in parliamentary elections this weekend returns to power a seasoned politician who historically has had rocky ties with Pakistan’s powerful military and is viewed by many as soft on militants and extremist groups. More:
Washington: The Mothers’ Day parade shooting in New Orleans, coming less than a month after the April 15 Boston bombing, is the fourth major incident of mass shooting in the […]
Foreword: The purpose of Islam is to teach man the ways of attaining peace, both with himself and with his Creator. Under Divine direction, over 1,400 years ago, Hadrat Muhammad (sa), the Holy […]
by Luigi Jorio, swissinfo.ch May 10, 2013 – 11:00 Most armed conflicts are resolved not by force but at the negotiating table. However, the growing number of mediation actors seen […]
by Areej Abuqudairi | May 12, 2013 | 23:57 AMMAN — Politicians and academics on Sunday called for rethinking Arab and Turkish ties to build on cultural commonalities and correct “misunderstandings in history”. “There is an urgent need for re-examining historical ties between the Arabs and the Turks to reach […]
Mysore, Karnataka It was over 15 months ago that Magic Bus mentor Shahbaz Pasha, in his constant endeavour to reach out to more and more children in the Haleem Nagar […]
This year marks the tenth anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq. The war itself had been planned years earlier. by S. Taalay Ahmed In 1999, the London Institute of Petroleum invited Dick Cheney to address their Autumn lunch. Cheney had previously served as President George H. W. Bush’s secretary […]
By Robyn Dixon May 10, 2013, 12:28 p.m. JOHANNESBURG — Africa loses the benefit of billions of dollars each year through illegal tax evasion, money transfers and secretive business deals, […]
Ten years ago, to be a religious Muslim youth would be considered to be conservative or traditional. Ten years later, to be a pious Muslim youth is being associated with […]
STORY SUMMARY Source: Daily Star, Lebanon A Saudi court jailed a Lebanese man for six years and sentenced him to 300 lashes after convicting him of encouraging a Saudi woman to convert to Christianity, local dailies reported Sunday. The same court sentenced a Saudi man convicted in the same case […]
STORY SUMMARY By Rami G. Khouri The Daily Star It might be coincidental timing or just a really bad case of mean-spirited in-your-face aggressive Israeli diplomacy. In the same week […]
STORY SUMMARY Hezbollah denounced Sunday the car bombings that left dozens of people dead in south Turkey near the border with Syria and called for stopping terrorism that is targeting […]
Source: NY Times: JERUSALEM — Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews tried to block a liberal women’s group from praying at the Western Wall on Friday morning, creating a tense standoff in the latest flash point of a broader battle over religion and identity that has engulfed Israel. More:
Two Latin American women canonised by Argentinian pontiff, as well as 813 ‘martyrs of Otranto’ slain in 1480 by Turkish invaders Pope Francis has given the Catholic church a raft […]
Source:LATIMES: (Illustration by Wes Bausmith / Los Angeles Times) When Susan had breast cancer, we heard a lot of lame remarks, but our favorite came from one of Susan’s colleagues. She wanted, she needed, to visit Susan after the surgery, but Susan didn’t feel like having visitors, and she said […]
Source: CNN (CNN) — At an age when most pensioners are winding down their lives, Fauja Singh began a new one. In his late 80s, and feeling “more dead than alive” following the loss of his wife and one of his sons, he took up marathon running. Now 102, he […]