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.
It urges member states to take steps to counter hate speech, incitement to violence, negative stereotyping based on religion or belief, intolerance and other acts of violence, including the desecration […]
Source: Arab News ‘It means a lot to us. It has presented us the opportunity to contribute to the fight against coronavirus’ CHRISTOPHER HAMILL-STEWARTJanuary 21, 2021 LONDON: A mosque is […]
Jan 20,2021 – JORDAN TIMES – Mohamed ElBaradei VIENNA — The Arab Spring that erupted a decade ago was a quest for human dignity whose protagonists sought to overcome decades […]
Niraj Warikoo Detroit Free Press Muslims and Arab Americans in metro Detroit cheered the repeal of the Muslim travel ban Wednesday by the administration of President Joe Biden, a move they hope will signal a change in how the U.S. government deals with their communities. “It’s long overdue,” said Abdulhakem […]
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is promoting more secular national interests at a critical juncture for the kingdom. By Donna Abu-Nasr 21. Januar 2021, 06:00 MEZ Muslim pilgrims wear masks […]
Letters from readers Florida Times-Union As we approach the inauguration of a new president and look at the challenges we face as a nation, it is necessary that American citizens re-learn the art of respectful discourse. As a Muslim American, I can testify that this is something emphasized repeatedly in […]
Hardline Islamist party files police complaint against ‘declared infidels’ for hurting Muslims’ religious feelings Kamran Chaudhry, Lahore: January 19, 2021 Ahmadis in a Pakistani town have been accused of blasphemy […]
Source: Arab News YouGov pan-Arab poll commissioned by Arab News late last year had shown Joe Biden as the favored presidential candidate Biden’s advisers would be well advised to heed […]
Jan 20,2021 – JORDAN TIMES – MICHAEL JANSEN Despite appeals from the UN and human rights organisations, Israel continues to dismiss calls to vaccinate against COVID or provide vaccines to Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Israel has so far inoculated 2 million Israelis, including members […]
Nina A. Loasana The Jakarta Post / Wed, January 20, 2021 Online learning can be done from anywhere, at anytime as long as you have internet access.(Shutterstock/File) Many parents across […]
Federal asylum centres must do more to protect asylum seekers from violence and improve training for security personnel, says a government advisory group. During monitoring visits in 2019 and 2020, the National Commission for the Prevention of Torture (NCPT) repeatedly found that conflict was part of everyday life in eight […]
A SPECIAL INTERVIEW WITH THE WORLDWIDE HEAD OF THE AHMADIYYA MUSLIM COMMUNITY Amer Safir, London, UK, Review of Religions, 8 April 2020 For some, it happens in college or university. […]
Abigail Rose McCall The Jakarta Post Brisbane, Australia / Wed, January 20, 2021 The continuity of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is likely to depend on stability in […]
Laila Al-Arian 15 January 2021 The Caliphate podcast has revealed again that the paper needs to confront unpleasant truths about how it handles stories at the nexus of Islam, the […]
Source: The Local Three months ago, President Emmanuel Macron made a speech in the Paris suburbs in which he promised a law to combat radical, Islamic ‘separatism’ writes John Lichfield. […]
BY ŞEYMA NAZLI GÜRBÜZ ISTANBUL NEWS ANALYSIS JAN 19, 2021 Seemingly a simple case of tax fraud at first glance, the recent child subsidies scandal that ousted the Dutch government […]
Short Url https://arab.news/887mw Rights groups believe at least 1 million Uighurs and other mostly Muslim Turkic-speaking Muslims are incarcerated in camps Biden’s secretary of state nominee agreed with the genocide […]
A protester holds up a placard at a demonstration in London in October against mandatory vaccinations. A leading Muslim scholar in Canada warned people not to believe conspiracy theories about […]
By AFP – Jan 19,2021 – JORDAN TIMES In this file photo taken in 1957, Algerian fighters from ALN (National Liberation Army), armed wing of the nationalist National Liberation Front […]
Turkish official says McGurk, who served as envoy to anti-IS coalition, ‘harmed Turkish-American relations’ Brett McGurk resigned from Trump administration late in 2018 in protest against decision to pull US […]