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.
In its editorial, the paper shares its concern over election campaigns building up along sectarian lines, instead of candidate track records. JAKARTA (THE JAKARTA POST/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – […]
By Rick Noack December 4, 2018 When President Trump pulled out of discussions of a U.N. migration pact almost exactly one year ago, there was an immediate international […]
By Luigi Jorio This content was published on December 4, 2018 Over 40°C in the cities, long periods of drought and little snow in winter: in forty years’ […]
In February 2017, mourners gather at an arena in Montreal for the funeral of three of the six victims of the massacre at the Grand Mosque of Quebec. (Catherine […]
Alex Lockie China’s state-run newspaper The Global Times tried to defend the country’s practice of mass detentions of its majority Muslim ethnic minority, the Uighurs. But it committed a […]
PUBLISHED: 04 December 2018 Liam Coleman Samina Siddiqi and Amatul Hayat with the collection organised by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Womens Association. Over the past month, Samina Siddiqi from Ilford, as […]
PUBLISHED: 15:00 04 December 2018 Aaron Walawalkar More than 100 Ahmadiyya Muslim worshippers joined a team of more than 500 volunteers – including the Mayor of London – to plant 15,000 trees in Hainault. Volunteers from the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association (AMYA) joined Sadiq Khan and Councillor Jas Athwal, in […]
Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times By James Barron Dec. 2, 2018 Think of it: One of the most famous people in the world is panning religion. “The word God is […]
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL Turkey has started working on plans to build a mosque in Caracas after a request from Venezuelan authorities, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said late Monday during […]
Dec 03,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – James J. Zogby I was having lunch this week with an Arab friend and before long, as expected, the conversation turned to President Donald Trump, […]
Dec 03,2018 -JORDAN TIMES – JAWAD ANANI Accompanying Taher Al Masri, I travelled on the 23rd of November to Tehran in order to attend the International Islamic Unity Conference which […]
‘Muhammad’ less likely than ‘David’ to get a positive response, Guardian investigation finds • How we carried out the survey Haroon Siddique and Pamela Duncan Mon 3 Dec 2018 Minority […]
Source: The News on Sunday By Ali Usman Qasmi The widespread hatred against Ahmadis is the result of decades of relentless campaigns and one-sided propaganda, which even the abolishment of […]
Source: Reuters International and Swiss info JAKARTA (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of Indonesian Muslims held a rally in Jakarta on Sunday led by hardline groups who had agitated to […]
Source: Daily Sabah BY BURHANETTIN DURAN; @burhanduran The German government’s ‘secular Islam’ project only serves to make the Muslims in Europe become more radicalized, but not more integrated into their […]
Chris Doyle December 03, 2018 Protesters holds a sign which reads “Islamophobia is not freedom” in London. (File Photo/AFP) Even the most hard-nosed, empathetically challenged Brits must have been shocked […]
By Rana Husseini – Dec 02,2018 DEAD SEA — Journalists, many of whom worked in conflict zones, shared their experience with over 400 participants of an investigative reporting forum […]
Please send your letters to letters@independent.co.uk The Independent Voices Finally, the Senate is flexing its atrophied muscles by voting to advance a resolution to end military support for the Saudi-led […]
Recreating ‘authenticity’ to engage audiences risks undermining a proper reliance on archive sources, says Robert Fisk @indyvoices The Independent When I was five years old, my parents arranged for a local photographer in Maidstone to take a portrait picture of their beloved son. A tall gentleman arrived at our home […]
Dec 01,2018 -JORDAN TIMES – WALID M. SADI An interesting referendum took place in Switzerland on “sovereignty”. In specific terms, the referendum was about the conflict, if any, between international […]
