Ahmadi graves desecrated in Pakistan ASIA
ASIA RABWAH TIMES5 days ago Pakistan’s minority Ahmadi Muslims say scores of headstones have been destroyed by Pakistani authorities at a cemetery in Sheikhupura. Amir Mahmood, a spokesman for 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.
Pakistan’s “Commission for Minorities” without the Ahmadis
Endemic anti-Ahmadiyya discrimination Pakistan’s conduct towards the Ahmadis and its obsession with religious identity is symptomatic of the radicalisation of society that permeates all areas of life and is […]
Srebrenica genocide source of unending pain for Bosnian Muslims after quarter-century
BY DAILY SABAH WITH AP ISTANBUL EUROPE JUL 09, 2020 A woman prays at the memorial cemetery in Potocari, near Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina, July 7, 2020. (AP Photo) While the international community has long turned away from the unending pain of the Bosnians, Bosnian Muslims are still unearthing the bones of their […]
US court orders Iran to pay $879m to 1996 Khobar bombing survivors
Photo released by the US department of defense showing US and Saudi military personnel surveying the damages to Khobar Towers in Dhahran 26 June caused by the explosion of a […]
In Nigeria, a new crisis deadlier than Boko Haram is rising
Security forces, aside from being outnumbered, ill-equipped and underfunded, are stretched on all fronts across the entire country Orji Sunday @orjisunday32 22 hours ago Around 300 people have been killed […]
Gilead says remdesivir coronavirus treatment reduces risk of death in severely sick patients
Source: CNBC Gilead Sciences announced new findings Friday that its antiviral drug remdesivir reduced the risk of death for severely sick coronavirus patients by 62% compared with standard care alone. […]
Manufacturing Moderna inks fill-finish pact with Spain’s Rovi for ‘hundreds of millions’ of COVID-19 shot doses
Source: Fierce Pharma Moderna is on a steady march to market with its mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine, and the company is snapping up manufacturing capacity along the way. After inking one fill-finish deal […]
Ordinance XX- A legal analysis
Source: Daily Times Last week marked 36 years since the mighty General, Zia-ul-Haq, the sixth and longest-serving head of the state of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan promulgated the infamous […]
Khilafat – the successorship of prophethood
Khilafat the successorship of prophethood After Prophethood, Khilafat is the most important institution in Islam. Khulafa are ultimately appointed by God through His Divine guidance. Though Khilafat had disappeared, it has been re-established as prophecied by The Holy Prophet, Muhammad (sa). more… Khilafat in the Qur’an “Allah has promised to those among […]
World could hit 1.5-degree warming threshold by 2024, UN weather agency says
Firefighters works at a forest fire in a burned national park at the Dutch-German border near Herkenbosch, Netherlands, April 22, 2020. (AP Photo) The world could see annual global temperatures […]
Palestinians have no choice but to resist in any way, shape or form annexation
Jul 08,2020 – JORDAN TIMES – MICHAEL JANSEN To annex or not annex? This is the question bugging Israeli, Palestinian and international political figures since Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu […]
Robots will help us manage Covid-19, but not in the way we think
Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) developed the CoWriter system whereby children improve their writing skills by showing a robot how to write letters. EPFL Brad Nelson, […]
‘Mama Boko Haram’: one woman’s extraordinary mission to rescue ‘her boys’ from terrorism
Aisha Wakil, AKA ‘Mama Boko Haram’ in Maiduguri, Nigeria in April 2019. Photograph: Jean Chung/Getty Images Aisha Wakil knew many of Boko Haram’s fighters as children. Now she uses those […]
Asylum seekers facing destitution need homes not cramped hotel rooms
Long stays in hotels can be harder for people with children, who have to use the corridors to play due to lack of facilities Tom McDonald 22 hours ago The Independent employs reporters around the world to bring you truly independent journalism. To support us, please consider a contribution. While […]
When is a murder not a murder? When we call the dismembering and dissolving of bodies a ‘targeted killing’
Source: The Independent We’re selling arms to the Saudis again. But if they’re really our close friends, can they be blamed if they get a bit upset at the work […]
Coronavirus is ‘not under control and is accelerating’, warns WHO
COVID-19 is not under control in most of the world and is actually getting worse, according to the head of the World Health Organisation (WHO). © Reuters The virus is showing […]
Why are young Muslims leaving Islam
Source: Telegraph online And it is not just an American or Western phenomenon. Even deeply conservative countries with strict anti-apostasy regimes like Pakistan, Iran and Sudan have been hit by […]
‘An illegitimate regime’: How a top rights group shed Israeli myths to recognize apartheid
Source: + 972 In an exclusive interview, human rights lawyer Michael Sfard explains what led Yesh Din to charge Israel with the crime of apartheid in the West Bank. When […]
Pakistani Christian man accused of blasphemy by his wife and daughter
11 Jun 2020 London: A wife and daughter have accused their husband and father, respectively, of committing blasphemy. Pakistani Christian man Anwar Masih from Lahore has been charged under blasphemy […]
EPA approves first two cleaning sprays that kill the coronavirus in 2 minutes
Source: Yahoo By Elise Solé The Environmental Protection Agency has approved two Lysol Disinfectant Sprays that can effectively kill SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) in just two minutes, the […]
