Odd News: Missing (Soviet) war veteran lives as healer in Afghanistan
Reuters | Mar 07, 2013 | 22:32 JORDAN TIMES MOSCOW — A Soviet war veteran reported missing in action during fighting in Afghanistan 33 years ago has been found living […]
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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.
NEW HOMES : Switzerland takes in 37 more Syrian refugees
Mar 8, 2013 – 18:35 swissinfo.ch Thirty-seven refugees fleeing violence in Syria have arrived in Switzerland as part of a United Nations resettlement programme. This is the second such group […]
Canada threatens to Stop Aid to Palestine if it takes Israel to ICC
On Friday 8th March, Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat condemned Canada’s warning to cut off its aid if Palestinians takes Israel to the International Criminal Court. Referring to the Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird’s warning to cut off its aid, Saeb Erkat questioned why Canada is being so hostile towards […]
HUMAN RIGHTS : Women “carry all” of Palestine’s sufferin
GAZA CITY (IPS) – “In Gaza we don’t lead normal lives, we just cope, and adapt to our abnormal lives under siege and occupation,” said Dr. Mona El-Farra, a physician and a long-time women’s rights activist in the Gaza Strip. On International Women’s Day, when many of the world’s women […]
Muslim students at Gujarat University fetch highest number of gold medals so far
Source: Times of India AHMEDABAD: Minority march in higher education is getting stronger in the state. The 61st convocation of the Gujarat University in fact saw maximum number so far of Muslim students excelling in their streams and winning gold medals. This year 211 medals were given to 118 students […]
KHUTBA JUMAH BY KHALIFATUL MASIH V: MTA
Assalamualaikum Below please find the synopsis of Friday Sermon delivered by Hadrat Khalifatul-Masih V (may Allah be his support) on 8 March 2013. Synopsis of Friday Sermon (8-Mar-13) prepared by Sister Shermeen Butt Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih recited the following Qur’anic verses, which are both prayers, at the start of his […]
Muslima: Muslim Women’s Art And Voices Featured At IMOW Exhibition (PHOTOS)
by Samina Ali, Huffington Post As the curator for the International Museum of Women’s new global exhibition, Muslima: Muslim Women’s Art & Voices, the one question I’m repeatedly asked is, […]
Malaysia Hunts for Philippine Muslim Fighters After Assault
By Daniel Ten Kate & Barry Porter – Mar 6, 2013 BLOOMBERG Malaysian security forces searched door-to-door in the eastern state of Sabah after attacking an armed Muslim clan from […]
New U.S. aid package of $250 million for Egypt fuels debate over support
Secretary of State John F. Kerry’s release of $250 million in economic aid to Egypt added fuel to a fiery debate in Washington over whether the U.S. should be helping […]
Rabbi Menachem Froman’s Unique Legacy of Jewish-Muslim Coexistence – Settler Cultivated Contacts With Palestinians and Hardliners
By Harvey Stein The Jewish Daily FORWARD Published March 04, 2013. Menachem Froman, Backed Coexistence With Muslim Fundamentalists, Dies at 68 Rabbi Menachem Froman, who died Monday at age 68, […]
New website: Muhammad (peace be on him) ‘fact check’
Myth Index: ■murdered Jews ■permitted to lie ■marriage to A’isha ■terrorism and Jihad ■apostasy and blasphemy ■Caravan raids ■idol worship ■Idolaters’ annihilation ■Reconciliation rejection ■Abu Talib’s Protection For answers to these ‘myths’ please click on this website: http://www.muhammadfactcheck.org/
Bin Laden son-in-law detained overseas, brought to New York (with the help of Jordan)
Mar 7, 2013 – 18:42 By Mark Hosenball and Daniel Trotta WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors unsealed an indictment against a son-in-law of Osama bin Laden on Thursday that charged him with conspiracy to kill Americans, after U.S. government sources said he was arrested overseas and brought to New […]
Truce of Hudaibiyah: A Grand victory in Islamic history
Epigraph: “Indeed, we have granted thee (Muhammad) a clear victory, That Allah may cover up for thee thy shortcomings, past and future, and that He may complete His favor upon […]
Allah’s mercy and the fragile world we live in
OF THE 99 beautiful names of Allah, it is Ar-Rahman and Ar-Rahim that we use most frequently in our prayers and du’aa. Ar-Rahman and Ar-Rahim are both derived from the same Arabic root word, rahma, meaning “mercy, compassion.” Pickthall translates Ar-Rahman, Ar-Rahim as “the Beneficent, the Merciful,” and Yusuf Ali […]
Britons, Westerners Increasingly Converting to Islam: Press TV
Britons and other Westerns increasingly converting to Islam Over time, the Priest may allow saying prayers the Islamic way in the Church and it may become socially acceptable. This all depends on the manners and behaviour of a person after he or she had further improved and developed his or […]
Islam in America: The Struggle Over Jihad’s meaning: New Your Times
It took over a century for the main stream Muslims – as seen here- to catch up with the true meaning of Jihad. The first to expound the true meaning was the 20th Century Imam Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. The Muslims are slowly coming together on the true meaning as […]
Saudi Arabia: Council of “Supreme Scholars” Rejects the Appointment of Women
The Muslim Times Editor for Pakistan Credit: wluml.org Source: PI Online “A controversy erupted this week in Saudi Arabia when some scholars suggested that the top religious organization in the Kingdom, […]
Wealth Inequality Is a Problem, but How Do You Even Begin to Solve It? – Is capitalislm working for USA? What is the Islamic solution?
Courtesy: The Atlantic You might consider America’s vast wealth inequality, vividly illustrated in this viral video, to be offensive, infuriating, or irrelevant. But it is not terribly mysterious. Rich people have more money. More money tends to lead to bigger properties, fatter savings, and better access to capital markets. As […]
Jamaat-e-Islami should stop violence and practice Islam, i.e. peace!
War-scarred Bangladesh torn by new tensions DAWN.com Three years on, its first verdicts have plunged the country into one of its most turbulent chapters since independence from Pakistan four decades ago and threatens lasting damage to the world’s eighth most populous country. More than 80 people have been killed in […]
Airline delays flight so man can see dying mum.
Source: News.com.au. UNITED Airlines has gone to extraordinary lengths to make sure a man got to see his mother before she died. Kerry Drake started sobbing after his flight from San Francisco to Houston was delayed. He had left only 40 minutes connection time in Houston to make his flight […]