Jordan, Britain sign legal deal likely to help deport radical cleric Abu Qatada
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 […]
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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.
Why ex-Islamophobe embraced Islam
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 […]
Netanyahu and the laws of killing ‘goyim’
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 […]
SYRIAN TROOPS CAPTURE KEY TOWN NEAR DAMASCUS
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 […]
President of Indonesia on twitter: @SBYudhoyono
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
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 …
Blasts raise concerns for Election Security
The Muslim Times Editor for Pakistan Credit:Dawn.com Separate attacks in Quetta, Karachi, Peshawar and DI Khan since Tuesday night have killed 11 people, and injured over 70. […]
Congratulations Majlis Ansarullah Germany!
By Zubair Khan. Photos: Mr Aslam Khan In the evening on 24.04.2013, in Bashir Mosque Bensheim Germany a successful program was organized under the arrangements of Majlis Ansarullah Germany. Approximately 25 learned Germans participated. In the beginning Shaikh Iftikhar very amicably introduced the Jamaat. Thereafter Mr Luqman Majoka, who is […]
Weak durable goods orders point to sluggish economy
(Reuters) – Orders for long-lasting manufactured goods recorded their biggest drop in seven months in March and a gauge of planned business spending rose only modestly, signs of a slowdown in economic activity. Durable goods orders slumped 5.7 percent as demand fell almost across the board, the Commerce Department said […]
Hamid sworn in as president
Source: Daily Star Abdul Hamid takes oath as the 20th president of the country at Bangabhaban Darbar Hall in the capital on Wednesday. Photo: BSS Abdul Hamid has taken oath as the 20th president of the country Wednesday. Acting Speaker Shawkat Ali administered the oath to Hamid at Bangabhaban […]
Hasina thanks Opposition
Source: BDNews 24 Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has thanked the opposition parties for withdrawing its general strike to facilitate rescue work at Savar. At least 80 people were killed and over 800 others injured when the nine-storied Rana Plaza caved in on Wednesday. The number of casualties is feared to […]
At least 87 dead in Bangladesh building collapse
Source: USA Today & NY Times BY Julhas Alam, Associated Press SAVAR, Bangladesh (AP) — An eight-story building housing several garment factories collapsed near Bangladesh’s capital on Wednesday, killing at least 87 people and trapping many more under a jumbled mess of concrete. Rescuers tried to cut through the […]
I’m Muslim, and I hate terrorism
Courtesy: CNN Editor’s note: Dean Obeidallah, a former attorney, is a political comedian and frequent commentator on various TV networks including CNN. He is the co-director of the upcoming documentary “The Muslims Are Coming!” and co-host of a new CNN podcast “The Big Three” that looks at the top three […]
As strong as ever (how to be as strong in old age as you were in your youth).
There is no difference between my youth and old age!” declared Nasruddin at the teahouse one day. “I’m just as strong as I was twenty years ago.” “Is that so‽” Hamza replied, always willing to challenge the Mullah on his boasting. “This is a boulder in the city garden that […]
Picture of the Day: ‘Doctored’ pro-Israel ad
Activists in the Irish city of Cork have added their own touches to ads that appeared on bus shelters in their city that call on people to “Visit Israel.” The […]
Suu Kyi’s Muslim moral dilemma
Source: Asia Times: By Akbar Ahmed and Harrison Akins “When you leave a seed from a tree to grow in a pagoda, it seems so small at first. But you know you must cut it out before it grows and destroys the building.” These spoken words are a metaphor for […]
Apologists for Israel take top posts at BBC
Amena Saleem The Electronic Intifada London 23 April 2013 The American poet T.S. Eliot wrote that “April is the cruelest month.” The phrase springs to mind in April 2013, the month that a new director-general took up his post at the BBC and, within two weeks, had installed a line-up […]
Field of nightmares
Source: Asia Times: By Tom Engelhardt Chalmers Johnson’s book Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire was published in March 2000 – and just about no one noticed. Until then, blowback had been an obscure term of CIA tradecraft, which Johnson defined as ”the unintended consequences of policies that […]
Do Tsarnaev Brothers Represent New Breed of Terrorist?
Source: Spiegel. After last week’s terror attacks in Boston, Americans themselves seem to have been surprised by their measured response. The more they get to know about the Tsarnaev brothers, though, the more it will become clear that they will now have to get used to a new breed of […]
12 misused English words in German
Source: The Local Most Germans love to show how well they speak English, but they often misuse or even make up their own English vocabulary. We gathered up the worst offenders for this week’s The Local List. Click HERE for these words.