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.
The housing market recovery picked up steam in the final three months of last year – prices shot up 7.3%, according to S&P Case-Shiller. The report covered home prices across 20 major housing markets and comes ahead of a government report on the sales of new homes due later Tuesday. […]
Story Summary To witness two realities in one country, one needs go no further than a suburban coffee shop in Lahore, the cultural capital of Pakistan. The dissonance between the two Pakistans is even more dramatic as the world reports more on Malala than media do in the stable, educated […]
Story Summary A hot air balloon caught fire and exploded as it was flying over Egypt’s ancient temple city of Luxor on Tuesday, killing 19 tourists, a security official said. […]
Kerry urges Syrian opposition to attend Rome talks MOSCOW/LONDON — Syria is ready to hold talks with the armed opposition trying to topple President Bashar Assad, the country’s foreign minister […]
No other logical choice exists but to unite as one community against religious discrimination, oppression of conscience, and violence Pakistan Ambassador to the United States of America, Sherry Rehman’s twitter […]
by Ramzy Baroud AlArabiyya An Israeli-Turkish rapprochement is unmistakably under way, but unlike the heyday of their political alignment of the1990s, the revamped relationship is likely to be more guarded and will pose a greater challenge to Turkey rather than to Israel. Israeli media referenced a report by Turkish newspaper […]
Nation of Islam asks for gang protection February 25, 2013 18:24 Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. (Reuters / Rebecca Cook) Tags Army, Religion, Security, USA Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan has a proposition for the members of Chicago’s gangs — and it doesn’t even involve getting them to put down their […]
I have uploaded The Muslim News here once more with the You Tube videos embded in it. I hope it comes out better this time. http://www.scribd.com/doc/127276209/FERIAL-MASRY-FIRST-SAUDI-AMERICAN-LADY-GETS-A-ROUSING-APPLAUSE-AT-32-UMA-CONVENTION?post_id=1244640626_590088107687816#_=_
Source: BDNews24. Islami Bank has sought assistance from the Bangladesh Bank as it has plunged into a massive crisis in the wake of calls by activists of the Shahbagh movement to severe relations with any institution having links with war criminals. The call by the activists drew huge response with […]
Courtesy: DAWN.com Bangladeshi students and pro-government supporters gather during a rally demanding death to Islamic political party leaders who are on trial for alleged war crimes during the country’s 1971 independence war, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013. Eight top leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami, the country’s largest Islamic party, are […]
LONDON — At the root of Moody’s decision to downgrade Britain’s credit rating is a crucial economic reality: Britain has begun to trail its peers in Europe — even bailed-out euro zone economies — when it comes to bringing down its budget deficit and making it attractive for foreigners to […]
Nation of Islam leader Farrakhan says blacks should curb spending, pool … Washington Post CHICAGO — Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan on Sunday called on blacks nationwide to curb economic disparities by cutting back on excessive spending, pooling resources and investing in land — an action plan he laid out during a three-hour … See […]
Source: Allafrica.com Over the decades that I have travelled in Africa I have met only four African atheists. Africans seem naturally networked to religion. All meetings – on politics, sport and even business – begin with a prayer. God is invoked on every occasion, private or public. Religion is comfortably […]
Source: BBC Twenty-year-old Alex Rawlings has won a national competition to find the UK’s most multi-lingual student. The Oxford University undergraduate can currently speak 11 languages – English, Greek, German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Afrikaans, French, Hebrew, Catalan and Italian. More:
Source:CNN (CNN) — Italy’s parliamentary elections kick off Sunday, with polls suggesting the center-left — led by Pier Luigi Bersani — is on track to defeat controversial three-time prime minister Silvio Berlusconi. But Berlusconi’s rise in the polls in recent weeks, combined with widespread public disillusionment, means that nothing about […]
Source: The Economist: THE details will be wearily familiar to any observer of the abuse scandals that have rocked the Catholic church in recent decades. Priests accused of horrific crimes are treated by their superiors as victims, while the children who suffered at their hands are seen as administrative headaches […]
Source: LUBP: There are, of course, both moral and social grounds on which one can fault the BBC Urdu for airing an interview with Malik Ishaq who openly calls for Shias, a major Muslim sect, to be put to death. Allowing this Pakistani apostatizing militant and hatemonger free airtime on […]
Source: ET LAHORE: “China will be the economic salvation of Afghanistan. The Chinese have bought mineral rights in Afghanistan and plan to build a railway there. India has also invested hugely in Afghanistan. Pakistan can also benefit, but it cannot do this alone. It can partner with India and China to […]