Forgiveness: The mark of a Muslim
IBN TAYMIYYAH ARABNEWS Friday 14 June 2013 Allah the Most High, said: “But if we let man taste the good favors after poverty and harm have touched him, he is […]
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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.
Saudi Arabia: 3 million expatriates face redundancy
JEDDAH: IBRAHIM NAFFEE Friday 14 June 2013 ARABNEWS Private companies who have not legalized the work status of their expatriate employees are planning to lay them off due to fears of expected raids by labor authorities. Some 3 million expatriate workers are threatened with redundancy. Many of these companies do […]
UN welcomes warming of Kuwaiti-Iraqi ties
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon attends first joint meeting with Kuwaitis and Iraqis The Kuwait News Agency (KUNA), quoted Ambassador Mansour Ayyad Al Otaibi as saying that the Secretary-General had called […]
Turkish Protesters Get ‘Final’ Warning to Clear Out of Park
Source: NY Times: ISTANBUL — Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday toughened his stance against demonstrators who continued to occupy a park in central Istanbul just one day after he met with leaders of the protest movement for the first time, declaring in a nationally televised speech that the […]
Historic Reception takes place at Houses of Parliament to Celebrate Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat UK Centenary
Source: Press Desk AMJ-UK Deputy Prime Minister, Secretaries of State and Parliamentarians welcome Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad to Westminster The World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat and Fifth Khalifa, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, […]
Tunisian Feminist Leader: ‘Femen, Please Leave Us Alone’
By Raniah Salloum European Femen activists have been sentenced to four months in prison for their topless protest in the Tunisian capital last month. Now the country’s opposition leader, herself […]
Ethiopian parliament votes to strip Egypt of rights to majority of Nile water : Tensions rise between neighbours over £4.7bn Great Renaissance Dam project
Reuters in Addis Ababa guardian.co.uk, Thursday 13 June 2013 15.05 BST Ethiopia’s parliament has unanimously ratified a treaty that strips Egypt of its right to the lion’s share of the […]
IAEA reform is long overdue
Source: Asia Times. By Yousaf Butt The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was designed as an apolitical technical agency that – among other things – takes regular accounting of member states’ nuclear material to make sure none is diverted to weapons uses. However, the agency has been veering from its […]
Iran: The real cost of sanctions
We look at the impact of increased sanctions against the Islamic Republic and ask who it really affects. The United States has unveiled aggressive new sanctions targeting Iran’s currency and car industry that are among the toughest yet. They are aimed at making Iranian money all but unusable outside the […]
Palestine decries Israel’s new outposts plan Palestinian PM says plans for more than 1,000 new houses in occupied West Bank are ‘killing two-state solution’.
An Israeli settlement push in the occupied West Bank, involving the building of 1,000 new homes in two new settlements, is “killing the two state solution”, Palestinian Prime Minister Rami […]
Pakistan sets sights on drones
Source: Asia Times. Speaking at his first cabinet meeting on June 10, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said “the dual policy of issuing public statements against drone attacks while [secretly] giving the go ahead to the US to carry on with the strikes will not be allowed under our rule. […]
German cops arrest American for Nazi insults
Source: The Local He is said to have flung the insults at officials while serving time in a Bavarian prison. After serving his sentence he returned to the USA but failed to keep in touch with the authorities despite knowing the investigation into the insults was active. A decision to […]
Due to new granted status, Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Germany will be entitled to …
Source: Faizan Ijaz, Head of Human Resources and Counsel AMJ Germany. Note by the Editor. Readers of Muslim Times were keen to know what Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Germany will get […]
Obamacare: Is a $2,000 deductible ‘affordable?’
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) Until now, much of the debate swirling around Obamacare has focused on the cost of premiums in the state-based health insurance exchanges. But what will enrollees actually get for that monthly charge? States are starting to roll out details about the exchanges, providing a look at just […]
Pervez Musharraf Arrested in Bugti Murder Case
Credit: Outlookindia.com REZAUL H LASKAR | ISLAMABAD | JUN 13, 2013 Former President Pervez Musharraf was today formally arrested and remanded to judicial custody for a fortnight over the 2006 killing […]
SEEKING JUSTICE: The long road from Guantanamo to Switzerland
by Stefania Summermatter and Peter Siegenthaler, swissinfo.ch June 11, 2013 – 11:00 Illegally imprisoned for eight years, three former inmates of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp have found refuge in […]
Israel to build hundreds of W.Bank settler homes: media (who still dreams of a ‘Two-States-solution’?)
STORY SUMMARY Israel is seeking approval for hundreds of settler homes in the northern West Bank settlements of Itamar and Bruchin, Israel media reported on Thursday. The latest moves come […]
Violence up 5 percent worldwide since 2008: Report
The world has grown more hostile in recent years, according to the Global Peace Index. Hopes that we can all just march toward ever-greater peace and equality saw a serious […]
Is Pope Francis Going After the Vatican’s ‘Gay Lobby’?
Source: The Daily Beast. So, it seems there really are gay priests in the upper echelons of the Vatican hierarchy. At least that’s what Pope Francis reportedly told a group of Latin American prelates in a private audience June 6. Pope Francis presides over a meeting at the Vatican on […]
Pakistan Budget 2013-2014:
Source: ET ISLAMABAD: Federal Finance Minister Ishaq Dar presented the federal budget for the year 2013-2014 in the National Assembly on Wednesday, Express News reported. The first litmus test of the newly sworn-in government began when Dar presented a Rs3.5 trillion federal budget in a bid to revive the country’s ailing economy. Designed […]