Pakistani cricketer-politician Imran Khan injured in accident
Lahore: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan was badly injured when he fell off a lifter while being hoisted on to a stage at an election rally in Gulberg, near […]
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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.
Ahmadiyya Muslims spread ‘love for all’ message
Ahmadiyya Muslims were out to spread a message of peace on the weekend. Local members went door to door to promote the national Love for All, Hatred for None campaign. Members of the faith want people to know that terrorism and violence have no place in their religion. Dr. Aleem […]
Colo. cleric offers to bury Boston bombing suspect’s body in Muslim cemetery
AURORA, COLO. The founder of the organization that built Colorado’s largest mosque is offering to bury suspected Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev in a Denver-area Muslim cemetery. Sheikh Abu-Omar Almubarac said Monday he will pay for a traditional Muslim burial – no headstone, monument or casket – at a plot at […]
Workers Claim Race Bias as Farms Rely on Immigrants
VIDALIA, Ga. — For years, labor unions and immigrant rights activists have accused large-scale farmers, like those harvesting sweet Vidalia onions here this month, of exploiting Mexican guest workers. Working for hours on end under a punishing sun, the pickers are said to be crowded into squalid camps, driven without […]
Establishment wants right-wing in power:
Source: ET KARACHI: In Pakistan, political parties use big public rallies to show their strength, especially in the run-up to elections. The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf , Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and other parties are doing just that. However, moderate political parties haven’t been able to canvass for votes in the same way because […]
Britain Discovers Germany as a Model
Source:The Spiegel. Britain, which has yet to recover from the 2008 financial crash, is peering enviously at Germany’s economic structure with its focus on engineering, its medium-sized firms, apprenticeships, regional banks and long-term business approach. The opposition Labour Party, but also the Conservative-led government, are starting to embrace German ideas. […]
Tahir Qadri Admits that HE IS KAFIR!
Source> Wasim Sr Tahir ul Qadri’s followers prostrating before him: Click HERE to see video in Youtube. Now watch Tahir ul Qadri’s condemnation of prostration to any human: Click HERE to watch the clip in Youtube.
Robert Fisk: The truth is that after Israel’s air strikes, we are involved If the EU and US say nothing about these attacks, approval is granted
Lights in the sky over Damascus. Another Israeli raid – “daring” of course, in the words of Israel’s supporters, and the second in two days – on Bashar al-Assad’s weaponry and military facilities and weapons stores. The story is already familiar: the Israelis wanted to prevent a shipment of Iranian-made […]
Palestine: The old method of peace will fail again
STORY SUMMARY There is good news and bad news on the Arab-Israeli peacemaking front this week. The good news is that the United States and the Arab League’s ministerial committee seem energized to restart Palestinian-Israeli negotiations. This culminated a few days ago in the Arab clarification that the 2002 Arab […]
Israel tells Assad it is not on side of rebels
STORY SUMMARY Israel sought to reassure the Syrian regime Monday that its weekend airstrikes against military sites near Damascus were not aimed at boosting the rebels, as activists claimed at least 42 army soldiers were killed in the attacks. Early morning airstrikes against what Syrian state media reported were scientific […]
Billions In U.S. Aid Haven’t Bought Peace In The Middle East (GRAPHIC
Over the last six decades, the U.S. has invested $299 billion in military and economic aid for Middle Eastern and Central Asian countries currently in turmoil. Egypt tops a list […]
President of Indonesia SBY ‘Undeserving’ of Award for Tolerance: Rights Group
By Jakarta Globe on 12:26 am May 7, 2013. An Indonesian human rights organization has blasted a US-based interfaith group’s decision to recognize President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono for championing religious […]
People pour in to witness
Source: The Daily Star. DHAKA: A number of copies of the holy Quran were burnt when the stalls and pushcarts of hawkers were set ablaze during the violence at the south gate of Baitul Mukarram mosque Sunday afternoon. Hundreds of people gathered near the south gate of Baitul Mukarram […]
By snubbing Copts on their holiest day, Egypt’s Morsi failed as President
NERVANA MAHMOUD Special to The Globe and Mail On late Saturday, Pope Tawadros II led his first Easter Mass as head of the ancient Coptic Christian Church in Egypt by […]
Muslim development plans meet resistance in rural Maryland
A Muslim group’s effort to move its campus from College Park to Maryland’s rural Howard County is being met with opposition from local residents, who say dense construction plans for the site would spoil the quiet character of the area. Although both sides insist that the debate turns solely on […]
Muslim as a label
Source: The Local. Just to name two examples – of course a democracy must reform its citizenship laws if the danger emerges that a growing part of its population is being shut out of the political process because they have no right to vote. And of course schools need to […]
The 4m votes no one wants
Source: Guardian via Wasim Sr. As Pakistan’s election campaign enters its dying days, no town has escaped the attention of the country’s politicians as they crisscross the country, plastering every spare billboard, lamp-post and shop-front with posters bearing their heavily airbrushed faces. Except Rabwah, a sleepy riverside settlement in the […]
Finding a new home in Islam – Why a young man from Herford (Germany) converted to Islam
by CORINA LASS (please bear with us – Google translate from German being used). Herford. The years after 2000 were troubled. Parental divorce, comprehensive school Friedenstal, vocational training year, training […]
It is a Message to Iranians
Source: NY Times: JERUSALEM — The twin airstrikes in Damascus on Friday and Sunday attributed to Israel appear to be more about Jerusalem’s broad, mostly covert battle with Iran and Hezbollah than about the bloody civil war raging in Syria. Despite intensifying concern over the future of Syria, Israeli political […]
How Nawaz Sharif is more mature and ready to lead Pakistan
Source: Daily Telegraph via Wasim Sr The politician most likely to be Pakistan’s next prime minister is a wiser man and a more mature leader than the one who governed twice in the 1990s before being overthrown in a military coup, according to one of the women who knows him […]