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 The drama over Cyprus has made clear that the euro-zone crisis is developing into a struggle over German hegemony in Europe. On the surface, Merkel and Schäuble seem to be working to stabilize the economy. In actuality, they’re binding other nations with the shackles of debt. More:
Source: A Times. By Pepe Escobar Reports on the premature death of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) have been greatly exaggerated. Western corporate media is flooded with such nonsense, perpetrated in this particular case by the head of Morgan Stanley Investment Management. Reality spells otherwise. The […]
Source: TOI ISLAMABAD/LAHORE: Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has left for Dubai after a tiff with his father, President Asif Ali Zardari, over the affairs of the PPP, leaving the party without its star campaigner for Pakistan’s general election. Bilawal, recently named patron-in-chief of the Pakistan People’s Party, developed differences with Zardari […]
RIYADH: ARAB NEWS .Saudis fighting in Syria will be arrested when they return home. The warning has been issued by the Interior Ministry. Maj. Gen. Mansour Al-Turki, the ministry’s spokesman, […]
Source: Indian Express Thirteen years ago, a Muslim housewife in Kerala had stopped an old and destitute Brahmin widow from jumping in front of a train and ending a life for which she saw no hope. The Muslim woman, then 34, took the 76-year-old high-caste Namboothiri woman home, gave her […]
Source: Asia Sentinel A troubling new movement spells disaster if left unchecked When Dr. Maung Zarni, an outspoken activist academic, labeled the ongoing anti-Rohingya and anti-Muslim movement in Burma as neo-Nazi, some Burmese said Zarni was exaggerating. Western commentators have also avoided the term. But Zarni has been proven right […]
Source: Asian Correspondent In November last year, a piece I wrote on the potential for the Arakan state violence to evolve into wider anti-Muslim conflict in other parts of Burma was met with accusations of sensationalism and a misreading of the root causes of the Arakan unrest. The piece had […]
Courtesy: http://www.stuff.co.nz/ MARK DAPIN I’d read warnings about travel in Bangladesh: the toilets are filthy, the kitchens are like toilets, and travellers will get sick. Hartals, or general strikes, regularly paralyse the state. In the villages, people are taken by Bengal tigers. But nothing filled my […]
Courtesy: The Economist Mar 23rd 2013 |From the print edition IN 1961 Israel kidnapped Adolf Eichmann from Argentina and put him on trial for crimes committed 20 years earlier. Eichmann had been secretary at the Nazis’ Wannsee conference that led to the Holocaust. His trial in Jerusalem was a […]
Bangladesh honours 13 Pakistanis for 1971 support Courtesy: Zee News Dhaka: Bangladesh on Sunday honoured 13 “Pakistani friends” for their outstanding moral support during its nine-month long liberation war, 42 years after they defied risks of persecution by the then military junta. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina handed them over the […]
BRUSSELS — Struggling into the early-morning hours to avoid a collapse of Cyprus’s banking system, European Union leaders on Monday agreed on a bailout package intended to keep Cyprus in the euro zone and rebuild its devastated economy. The deal, struck after hours of meetings here, was approved by the […]
Source: Spiegel A 40-year-old Bulgarian set himself on fire to protest poverty and corruption in his country on Friday, becoming the sixth self-immolation in the EU country in less than a month. More:
Source: The Local A Munich woman who could not afford to bury her mother spent eight months sleeping next to her decomposing corpse, which she kept on a sofa bed in her bedroom, a newspaper reported on Saturday. More:
Source: NY Times. HONG KONG — China’s new president, Xi Jinping, sought to assure African countries on Monday that his government will heed complaints that relentlessly competitive Chinese companies are suffocating African efforts to nurture industry and jobs, and promised aid, scholarships and technology transfers in a bid to counter […]
Source: BBC Cannot play media. You do not have the correct version of the flash player. Download the correct version 25 March 2013 Last updated at 06:09 GMT Help Muslims in Sri Lanka have voiced concerns about a growing number of anti-Muslim protests and attacks, carried out by hardline Buddhist […]
Source: Dawn.Com RAWALPINDI: Police officers selected to head special squads for the security of former prime ministers Yousuf Raza Gilani and Raja Pervez Ashraf have reportedly refused to join the duty terming the move unlawful. Some of them have gone on medical leaves, it has been learnt. Just one day […]
Source: A times: By M K Bhadrakumar The spin given to United States President Barack Obama’s visit to Israel last week was that it could be a kiss-and-make-up trip aimed at improving Obama’s personal chemistry with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. If so, the mission succeeded. The surprise element came […]
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Monday 25 March 2013 The Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities is currently developing a museum for Makkah history at Maabida Palace, said Prince Sultan bin Salman, […]
AMMAN — Military gains by Syrian jihadist and rebel forces along the Syrian-Jordanian border on Sunday placed Jordan on “high alert”, military sources said, as the armed groups moved closer […]
Source: Yahoo News By JULIE PACE | Associated Press – Sat, Mar 23, 2013 PETRA — US President Barack Obama set aside the Middle East’s tricky politics Saturday to marvel at the […]