‘I Am Still Alive’ | Gaza Day 100
Sarah MalikISRAEL-PALESTINE WAR 16th January 2024 ©Shutterstock Sarah Malik, USA January 14th marked a hundred days. One-hundred days of mass murder, of devastation, of a population slowly being buried under the […]
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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.
The online hate campaign turning Indonesians against Rohingya refugees
Rohingya As Indonesia’s presidential election approaches, a campaign of disinformation against Rohingya is spreading across social media Rebecca Ratcliffe south-east Asia correspondent and Ardila SyakriahThu 18 Jan 2024 00.01 GMT In […]
Who sold Palestine?
BY EKREM BUĞRA EKINCI SEP 30, 2021 – DAILY SABAH Orthodox Jews wearing prayer shawls and carrying the “four species” (the four plants that are mentioned in the Torah as […]
Early Qur’anic manuscript to go on sale in March
A rare early manuscript from a copy of the Qur’an is set to go on sale later this year in the Netherlands. (AFP file photo) ARAB NEWS January 17, 2024 […]
Video: With Robert Kuhn and John Polkinghorn: If Christians, Jews and Atheists Debate, Islam Wins?
My advice to Robert Lawrence Kuhn: At some point after sufficiently examining the evidence we have to take a leap of faith If the Atheists and the Christians Debate, Islam […]
At Davos, Blinken calls pathway to Palestinian state a necessity for Israeli security
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken reiterated the need for a “pathway to a Palestinian state” Wednesday at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in the Swiss resort of Davos […]
Senate votes against Sanders resolution to force human rights scrutiny over Israel aid
Bernie Sanders Senator’s bid to make US military support conditional on whether Israel is violating human rights in Gaza fails by 72 votes to 11 Maanvi Singh in Oakland and agencyWed […]
Druze. The Great Survivors
How the world’s most secretive faithhas endured for a thousand years An Arab News Minority Report To many, the Druze are an enigma, Arabic-speaking followers of an esoteric Abrahamic faith […]
Israel now a liability for the West and its universal values
OSAMA AL-SHARIF January 16, 2024 Israel’s appearance at The Hague last week to defend itself against South Africa’s charge of committing genocide in the Gaza Strip marked the most significant […]
UN human rights experts warn of ‘unfolding genocide’ as ‘every single person in Gaza’ goes hungry
Palestinians wait to receive food amid shortages of food supplies, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. (Reuters) Updated 20 sec ago EPHREM KOSSAIFY January 17, 2024 NEW YORK CITY: […]
ABC journo allegedly sacked for ‘expressing political opinion’
An ABC host whose ‘humiliating’ sacking over a social media post has made a bombshell claim. Nathan Schmidt@Nate_R_Schmidty 2 min read January 11, 2024 – 4:40PMNCA NewsWire You are watching Thursday, January 11 | Top stories | From the Newsroom Dramatic vision has been released of the moment police shot […]
ABC radio presenter axed after Israel-Hamas conflict posts
BySarah Keoghan Updated December 20, 2023 A radio presenter who was axed from ABC Radio on Wednesday afternoon is “considering her legal options” after she was terminated over her social media […]
Police clash with group protesting against burning of Quran in Netherlands
Police says it made three arrests after a group of protesters demonstrated against Dutch far-right PEGIDA’s “authorised” burning of the Quran in Arnhem. A brawl has broken out in the […]
Germany Has Revamped Its Approach To Migrants, But Acceptance, Integration Are As Hard As Ever
FEATURES Germany Has Revamped Its Approach To Migrants, But Acceptance, Integration Are As Hard As Evershare December 18, 2023 05:09 GMTUPDATED January 09, 2024 11:58 GMT Afghan Seema Stanikzai sits […]
Freedom of religion and belief in Indonesia in 2023: Establishing places of worship is still difficult
January 6, 2024 The situation of freedom of religion and belief in Indonesia in 2023 “will not experience major changes”, said the Advocacy Coalition for Freedom of Religion or Belief. The […]
What South Africa Got Right About the Israel-Hamas Conflict at the ICJ
Umar Gyasi AgyemangISRAEL-PALESTINE WAR 15th January 2024 Add Comment ©Shutterstock Umar Gyasi Agyemang, Ghana As innocent lives are being lost in the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict, there is evidence of the […]
Majority of children under six in Switzerland have foreign roots
read aloudX Between 2019 and 2021, six out of ten children under the age of six were living in a household in which at least one parent was born abroad […]
The US and Israel failed peace thirty years ago
Jan 15,2024 – JORDAN TIMES James J. Zogby Last week, in a lengthy New York Times article, Tom Friedman claimed that Hamas could have turned Gaza into Dubai if only they’d […]
Israel’s genocidal intent was clearly shown at ICJ hearing
DAOUD KUTTAB January 14, 2024 Short Url It is known that one of the biggest challenges, when attempting to blame any country for acts of genocide, is the need to […]
Videos: Quantum Physics Providing for Freewill and Divine Providence?
Epigraph Whoever does good does it for himself and whoever does evil does it against himself: your Lord is never unjust to His creatures. (Al Quran 41:46) God does not […]