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 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 […]
by Areej Abuqudairi | Apr 25, 2013 JORDAN TIMES BAPTISM SITE — Religious leaders have a great responsibility in creating interfaith harmony and promoting peace worldwide, experts and scholars said […]
JEDDAH: MARWAH HADDAD ARABNEWS Friday 26 April 2013 The official spokesman of the Civil Status Department has said that the department has no jurisdiction to either accept or reject the names chosen by parents for their newborn children where parents are non-Muslim. Omar Mahmood, a Muslim expat living in Saudi […]
MAKKAH: TARIQ ATH THQAFI ARABNEWS Friday 26 April 2013 A 12-meter wide lane to be used by the handicapped people is being built in the Grand Mosque. The General Presidency […]
ARABNEWS Israeli defiance and intransigence stand in the way of achieving lasting peace in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia’s envoy to the UN has told the Security Council. “Israel’s continued […]
Source: NY Times. WASHINGTON — The White House said on Thursday that American intelligence agencies now believed, with “varying degrees of confidence,” that the Syrian government had used chemical weapons, but it said it needed conclusive proof before President Obama would take action. More:
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The Muslim Times Editor for Pakistan Credit: Dawn.com From the Newspaper | I.A Rehman | 15 hours ago GEN Ashfaq Parvez Kayani’s warning against separating Islam from Pakistan’s polity or politics should […]
BEIT JALA, West Bank (AP) — Palestinians in this Christian village are hoping the new pope can succeed where others have failed — pressing Israel to drop plans to build […]
Reuters | Apr 24, 2013 | JORDAN TIMES LONDON — Britain has signed a new legal treaty with Jordan in the hope of being able to deport a radical cleric […]
JEDDAH: NASIM CHOWDHURY ARABNEWS Thursday 25 April 2013 In the early days of Islam, Omar, who would later become a caliph, was in a frenzied rage and set out to […]
Israel is becoming a racist society, in which the prime minister of a country that was founded after the murder of Jews salutes a rabbi who supported a work on […]
BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian activists and state media say President Bashar Assad’s forces have captured a strategic town near Damascus after a five-week battle with rebels. The director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Rami Abdul-Rahman, says government troops regained control of the town of Otaybah, east of the […]
Please continue to approach His Excellency the President of Indonesia on Human Rights Issues. Is he not aware of them? I for instance sent him today the following messages: Rafiq […]
Bangladesh journalist urges government to ban Jamaat-e-Islami Indian Express Dhaka, April 23 (ANI): Bangladesh journalist and also the executive president of forum for secular Bangladesh and trial of war criminal, Shahriar Kabir urged the Bangladeshi government to ban the country’s biggest Islamist party, Jamaat-e-Islami and …